WHSDM Center
(Women's Health and Sex Diversity in Medicine)
Welcome to the Stanford Women's Health and
Sex Diversity in Medicine (WHSDM) Center
WHSDM Director Marcia Stefanick Receives Stanford School of Medicine Alumni Association RISE Award
WHSDM Director Marcia Stefanick, PhD was recognized by the Stanford School of Medicine Alumni Association for her pioneering work on women's health and sex differences. Dr. Stefanick, who lead the ground breaking research of the Women's Health Initiative, which is the largest study of women's health prevention conducted in the United States, received the RISE Award (Reach, Inspire, Serve and Engage) for 2024.
Gendered Innovations Project
The peer-reviewed Gendered Innovations project was created by Professor Londa Schiebinger, with Dr. Stefanick as a project co-director. Gendered Innovations:
1) develops practical methods of sex, gender, and intersectional analysis for scientists and engineers;
2) provides case studies as concrete illustrations of how sex, gender and intersectional analysis leads to innovation.
See Gendered Innovations for the latest updates and case studies.
A message from the director
The Stanford WHSDM Center (pronounced "wisdom") is a Stanford School of Medicine center that evolved from the former Women’s Health at Stanford Program. The WHSDM Center acknowledges the wisdom of conducting innovative, multi-disciplinary research on women’s health and sex differences and diversity in biology and medicine, from conception through the lifespan, in every medical discipline, from basic science to clinical and population health science.
The Stanford WHSDM Center also recognizes the value of educating scientists and bioengineers, medical researchers, physicians and other health care providers, and the public on the broad range of women’s health issues, as well as the spectrum of biological (and sociocultural) differences (and similarities) that may affect health outcomes across the sex/gender continuum over the lifecourse.
Marcia Stefanick, PhD
Director, Stanford WHSDM Center