Current Opportunities

AMWA Initiatives

• Engage with AMWA Initiatives or sign up to get involved.
• Join the Welcoming Committee or Social Media Team.

Leadership

• Apply for AMWA Elevate – Next cohort starts October
• Apply for fully funded Korn Ferry Foundation Leadership Program

Grants

• Sex and Gender Health Education Grants available to promote outreach and awareness of sex and gender specific health.
• Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health call for high-impact biomedical and health research proposals (due 3/14/24)

Conferences

Research / Publications

• Centrexion Study for efficacy in knee osteoarthritis pain.

Surveys

• Gender / Parental Status Survey
• Breastfeeding/Lactation Support in Residency – Survey for Residents & Fellows
• Gender Based Microaggressions Among Women Surgeons, Residents and Medical Students
• Female Mentor And Learner Engagement Study
• Share your experience re: patients & access to reproductive healthcare.

Comments

• Input on NIH Behavioral/Soc. Science Research Strategic Plan
• AHRQ Call for Comments: Management of Post Partum Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

Fellowships

Advocacy

• Considering a run for Congress? AMPAC 2023 Campaign School

Jobs

• See the new AMWA Job Board
• PATH (human trafficking) seeking Admin & Operations Manager.

Other

• Join the IDD (individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities) Advocate Corps.
• FDA Medical Devices Health Advisory Committee (12/13)
• FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee (12/11)
• Apply for open seat on CPT Editorial Panel (9/29)

Past Opportunities

AMWA Initiatives

• AMWA Artist-in-Residence Program, apply for 2023-2024 (Due 3/4)
• Join a committee of the Medical Women’s International Association. All AMWA full physician members are members of MWIA. (due 11/15)
• Apply by 11/15 for the 1st Annual AMWA Healthcare Innovation Challenge at AMWA’s Annual Meeting. #DocPreneur $10,000 in prizes.
• AMWA Member Representatives and Voices Needed. Sign Up
  • Attend White House bi-weekly Health Community Calls
  • Call for speakers for a HHS vaccine confidence webinar
  • Help plan Reproductive Care Town Halls
  • Join the AMWA Gun Solutions team
  • Share fertility advocacy stories
  • Build AMWA’s Preventive Medicine Task Force
  • Be a climate change advocate

Conferences

• April 19 Women in Negotiation (WIN) Virtual Summit – AMWA members 20% off
• MAY 4-5  SIU Women in Medicine & Science Professional Dev. Virtual Conference
• Annual Kenniebrew Conference February 16-18. Call for for workshop proposals due 11/30.

Grants

• Harrington Scholar Innovator Award (June 5)
• Understanding Chronic Conditions Understudied Among Women (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
• Heal Scholarship Program for ABLM/ACLM Board Certification (due 3/1)
• Pfizer Educational Grant RFPs: Contact AMWA to partner — Optimizing Telemedicine/Telehealth for Rheumatology (9/13)

Research

• Seeking co-Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Medical Internet Research.
• NIH grant: Galvanizing Health Equity Through Novel and Diverse Educational Resources (GENDER) Research

Comments

• NIH Office on Research in Women’s Health is seeking information to inform the forthcoming NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women
• Comment on proposed HHS rule to strengthen nondiscrimination in healthcare
• FDA call for comments on Makena for preterm labor (Due 10/11)

Fellowships

• 2023 Climate & Health Equity Fellowship (12/15)
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows (11/7)
• NIH Climate and Health Scholars Program (Due 9/15)

Advocacy

• World Osteoporosis Day was Oct. 20 Advocate for reimbursements on DXA Screening. Take the pledge #YesYouScan. Screen your patients.

Leadership

• Applicants wanted for AMWA’s Designated Seat on the AMA Women’s Physician Section Governing Council – Influential 2-year appointment with opportunity for 2nd term. Apply by March 8,2023
• ACP Internists Council of Early Career Physicians (Due 11/1)
• CMS seeks clinicians to join Expert Workgroups to reevaluate cost measures used in Quality Payment Program. (Due 9/9)
• AMA seeks applications for Committee on Conduct.
• Applications for Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) Committee or SIG groups (Due 9/15)

Miscellaneous

• National Academies of Science & Medicine Food and Nutrition – board member position (11/3)
• ORWH Accepting Applications for an Advancing Gender Inclusive Excellence Coordinator Center (Due 4/28)
• Join AMWA’s #WhiteCoatChallenge. 2023 Theme: “The White Coat Holds the Line” (against legislative interference in the doctor-patient relationship)
• Provide video/telehealth consults to support healthcare providers or patients in Afghanistan & Pakistan without access to medical care.
• Join the newly relaunched LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory.
• Apply to be a founding member of the Academia Medicine editorial board, an innovative open access journal
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness – waiver opportunity until Oct. 31