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Accelerating Women's Health with Research
To make a long-term positive impact on women's health
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Inspiring Careers in Women's Health Research
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Early access to cutting edge research for self-advocacy
Making our community healthy through research
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Health prevention strategies, illness diagnosis and treatment, and drug development efforts rely on gender-inclusive research results. Historically, women have been either underrepresented, or excluded in medical research efforts. This may lead to adverse health outcomes for women.
The Doris A. Howell Foundation for Women’s Health Research is dedicated to making a long-term positive impact on women’s health.
We serve to bring awareness to gender disparities in medical research that lead to proper diagnosis and treatment for women in our community. We seek to accelerate women’s health research by addressing two key elements in women’s health: provide early, first hand access to cutting-edge research, and funding undergraduate and graduate research grants to conduct critical research affecting women’s health.
Since its founding in 1995, the Howell Foundation has awarded more than 270 scholarships and produced over 100 women’s health presentations. In 2013, it expanded its service to include community- based research grants with an emphasis on women in under-served communities. By focusing on women-specific issues, we help Keep the Women We Love Healthy.
~ Dr. Doris A. Howell
“How many of you have wives; how many of you have daughters; how many of you have sisters? And I know you all have mothers…
What do you do to help them stay healthy?“
Howell Scholarship Program
We inspire and fund undergraduate and graduate researchers to pursue scientific innovation for the next-generation pool of physicians and scientists who will accelerate solutions to women’s health issues.
Outreach and Events
We promote health education by presenting cutting-edge research that encourages self-advocacy for the long term health and well-being of women, their families and the community in which they live.
Community Engagement Initiative
We award pilot research grants to scientists working with community organizations to develop and evaluate programs designed to address the most pressing health issues affecting underrepresented women in our community.
EVENTS
Early Access to Cutting-Edge Research in Women's Health
2022 Howell Health Lecture Series
Did you know that two out of three blind people in the world are women? Learn more about this and other aspects that contribute to age-related eye tissue dysfunction.
Aging and Age-related Eye Diseases: The Women Perspective
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Give Now to Move Forward
Help us accelerate solutions in women's health for generations to come.
Your investment supports an emerging scientist and contributes to a lifetime of furthering women’s health, family health and the health of our community with education.
Today’s Howell Scholar raises the importance of science dedicated to women’s health. With your support, today’s Howell Scholar will have the the tools to discover the next scientific breakthrough in women’s health research.
Your Donations at Work!
How you’ve helped move women’s health research forward
What Donors are Saying:
We have entered a new era in Women’s Health and “tomorrow’s breakthrough” depends on what we do today to make a difference in the future of health care. It’s an honor to be part of this incredible group of people who believe in women’s health causes.
Although women live longer than men, they bear a greater burden of diseases & disability. I’m privileged to serve on the Howell Foundation Board of Directors to help this exceptional organization promote women’s health research through its student & community engagement research awards.”
For me, the Howell Foundation is about Education. Research. Next Generation. I learn so much about women’s health from the top physician researchers and scientists in San Diego. Knowing that my contribution is going toward women’s health research scholarships is rewarding.
Howell Happenings
Keeping the Women we Love Healthy Blog
Howell Foundation Announces New Appointments to its Executive Leadership Team
The Howell Foundation is #breakingthebias in research. Because women’s health starts with research.
Inspiring Careers: Howell Foundation Announces 2022 CSUPERB Awards
With Appreciation to our Academic Partners
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PO Box 910016
San Diego, CA 92191
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