Our Impact

Women’s Health Research at Yale, founded in 1998, funds interdisciplinary research on women's health and gender differences in health and disease. Part of the Yale School of Medicine, we raise our own funds to support our scientific investigations and communicate our findings to the community.

Women’s Health Research at Yale:

• Generates innovative interdisciplinary research findings on gender differences in health and disease through our Pilot Project Program. 
• Has awarded more than $4.3 million in “seed” money to fund more than 60 pilot studies in areas of women’s health that had previously received little attention, and the results of these projects have generated over $49 million in new external grants for further research - an enormous “return on investment.”
• An outstanding 57 percent of the investigators who received pilot funds used their pilot data to obtain new external funding to pursue important new areas of research on women’s health.
• Four-fifths of the funded researchers have been junior or mid-level faculty who needed initial funding to launch their innovative research.

WHRY also:

• Integrates the study of gender differences in health into New Collaborative Grants with Key Research Partners in areas related to cardiovascular care, women and addictive behaviors, the neurobiology of gender difference, and reproductive behavioral health.
• Develops research training for the next generation through NIH Training Grants, and creates partnerships with the community in providing Educational Initiatives to insure the translation of research findings for practical application.