The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) new speaker series titled Diverse Voices: COVID-19 and the Health of Women will disseminate key COVID-19 research findings that (1) are relevant to diverse groups of women and (2) incorporate a multidimensional sex-and-gender focus. The speaker series also aims to increase public awareness, understanding, and engagement with COVID-19 research. Each session of the series will include the author(s) of a paper relevant to the health of women. In plain language, speakers will present specific takeaways from their publication for researchers, clinicians, and the public. The goal of the speaker series is both to amplify research relevant to the health of women and to support informed decisions about therapeutic or vaccine trial and other research participation by diverse women.

This video is the web recording of the inaugural session of the speaker series, which took place on January 27, 2021, features Drs. Ana Langer and Jewel Gausman, of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who discussed their commentary piece titled “Sex and Gender Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Learn more at https://orwh.od.nih.gov/about/newsroom/events/sex-and-gender-disparities-covid-19-pandemic-webinar.