Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women’s Health Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women's Health Act builds a new federal menopause and mid-life women's health agenda inside the Public Health Service Act. It directs NIH, through the Office of Research on Women's Health, to coordinate and expand research on perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause, symptoms, disparities, and integrated care models. It authorizes NIH grants for biomedical, public health, clinical, and translational research; directs HHS to expand public-health research, data collection, dashboards, workplace-stressor research, and interagency initiatives; creates public-health promotion and prevention grants; funds national awareness and education outreach; creates clinical training grants; authorizes Centers of Excellence in Menopause and Mid-Life Women's Health; and requires recurring reports to Congress.
Who Benefits and How
Mid-life women experiencing perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause, and related chronic conditions benefit because the bill funds research, screening, testing, treatment, prevention services, public education, and care-coordination models aimed at reducing barriers to care. Rural women, underserved women, Tribal communities, and patients in health professional shortage areas benefit from grant priorities and outreach requirements that target known disparities. Researchers, clinicians, teaching hospitals, minority-serving institutions, public-health departments, nonprofit hospitals, medical schools, nursing schools, pharmacy schools, and small businesses benefit from new grant opportunities for research, care delivery, training, and centers of excellence.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH, the Office of Research on Women's Health, and other federal agencies bear the administrative burden because they must coordinate research, create disease categories, award and oversee grants, maintain dashboards and websites, conduct outreach, evaluate projects, and submit recurring reports to Congress. Grant recipients also bear compliance burdens because eligible entities must apply for funds, operate programs, distribute evidence-based materials, report annually on center activities, and participate in federal evaluation and oversight.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes $25 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 for NIH and HHS research on menopause, mid-life women's health, disparities, diagnostic testing, treatment approaches, dashboards, and workplace stressors.
- Authorizes $10 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 for public-health promotion grants that improve early detection, diagnosis, treatment, care coordination, mental health support, substance-use prevention, and best practices for menopause care.
- Creates a national awareness, education, outreach, and online-resource program for patients, caregivers, providers, first responders, public health departments, rural areas, underserved areas, and Tribal communities.
- Authorizes $10 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 for clinical training grants to medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy, hospital, residency, and related training programs.
- Establishes Centers of Excellence in Menopause and Mid-Life Women's Health, prioritizes service in shortage and underserved areas, requires annual center reports, and requires HHS reports to Congress on program progress, disparities, barriers, training gaps, and best practices.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill expands federal research, grants, public-health outreach, clinical training, centers of excellence, reporting, and interagency coordination for menopause, perimenopause, postmenopause, and mid-life women's health.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Education, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
The bill expands federal research, grants, public-health outreach, clinical training, centers of excellence, reporting, and interagency coordination for menopause, perimenopause, postmenopause, and mid-life women's health.
Policy Domains
Federal research, grants, dashboards, and research coordination
Identified Gains
- Mid-life women with menopausal symptoms
- NIH-funded menopause researchers
- Clinicians conducting translational research
- Small businesses developing diagnostic tools
Identified Costs
- National Institutes of Health
- Office of Research on Women's Health
- Department of Health and Human Services
Clinical training grants and centers of excellence
Identified Gains
- Medical schools
- Nursing schools
- Pharmacy schools
- Teaching hospitals
- Health professional trainees
- Patients in medically underserved areas
Identified Costs
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Centers of Excellence grant recipients
- Clinical training grant recipients
Public-health promotion, prevention, awareness, education, and outreach
Identified Gains
- Rural women with menopause-care barriers
- Underserved women seeking menopause care
- State public health departments
- Tribal public health departments
- Health care providers receiving technical assistance
Identified Costs
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Grant-recipient public health departments
- Grant-recipient health-profession schools
Congressional reporting and interagency coordination
Identified Gains
- Congressional health committees
- Department of Veterans Affairs health programs
- Department of Defense health programs
Identified Costs
- Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Department of Defense
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Mrs. Murray (for herself, Ms. Murkowski, Ms. Alsobrooks, Ms. Baldwin, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Caregivers seeking menopause information, Medically underserved women, Mid-life women facing care barriers
Department of Defense health programs, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Veterans Affairs health programs
Behavioral health providers serving mid-life women, Center grant recipients, Centers of Excellence in Menopause Care
Positive-direction: Behavioral health providers serving mid-life women, Centers of Excellence in Menopause Care, Clinicians conducting menopause trials, Health care providers receiving HHS guidance, Health care providers receiving technical assistance, Health care providers using center resources, Physicians receiving menopause-care training, Registered nurses receiving menopause-care training, Teaching hospitals with residency programs
Negative-direction: Center grant recipients, Health care delivery programs
Congressional appropriations committees, Congressional health committees, Public health departments customizing outreach materials
Academic research institutions, Accredited residency programs, Clinical training grant recipients
Positive-direction: Academic research institutions, Accredited residency programs, Health professional trainees, Medical schools training menopause clinicians, Nursing schools training menopause clinicians
Negative-direction: Clinical training grant recipients, Eligible research grantees
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "nih_director"
- → Director of the National Institutes of Health
- "orwh_director"
- → Director of the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "public_health_departments"
- → State, local, Tribal, and territorial public health departments
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "eligible_entities"
- → Accredited health-profession schools, hospitals, residency programs, training programs, and centers of excellence
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "federal_partners"
- → Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, and other federal agencies
- "congressional_committees"
- → Named House and Senate health, finance, aging, appropriations, and tax-writing committees
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Designated eligible entities receiving HHS grants to improve professional training resources and distribute evidence-based menopause and mid-life women's health resources.
Accredited health-profession schools and teaching hospitals, minority-serving institutions, behavioral health clinics with residency programs, nonprofit research institutions, small businesses, and other entities NIH approves.
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