Trump to create new NIH division, task force for women's health
The order sets no funding target and directs federal agencies to speed research on understudied conditions, with a task force meeting the same day.
- On Monday, October 19, 2026, President Donald Trump established a Women's Health Division within the National Institutes of Health and a White House Women's Health Task Force co-chaired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
- Championing the effort, First Lady Melania Trump helped shape the initiative to "strengthen research, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care for women and girls," revoking a 2024 executive order regarding women's health research signed by former President Joe Biden.
- Critics at the National Women's Law Center noted the order lacks specific research-spending targets, pointing to a 2025 law signed by the administration that includes sweeping Medicaid cuts of roughly $1 trillion over 10 years.
- During the White House Rose Garden ceremony, Melania Trump appeared to turn her head away as Trump leaned in for a kiss, an exchange that drew significant online attention and commentary regarding the couple's body language.
- With the midterms two weeks away, the new NIH division has 90 days to be established, though the order sets no specific funding target as the GOP seeks to maintain its narrow majority in Congress.
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Trump order sets up women’s health research initiative, White House task force
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. The new division is set to work with the agency’s existing Office of Research on Women’s Health, which was established in 1990 and “has served as the focal point for women’s health research at NIH,” according […]
The White House working group is headed by Trump's chief of staff.
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