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Perception is key to retaining women in academic medicine
A team of Stanford University Medical Center researchers found that while male and female faculty members are leaving Stanford in comparable numbers based on the gender mix of the faculty, women are giving notice sooner than their male peers. But what was surprising was that the majority were moving to comparable institutions—not relocating to community clinics or pure research enterprises.
Water, women, and children’s health
Almost 1 billion people worldwide live without safe drinking water and more than twice that number people don’t have basic hygiene facilities. As a result, 1.8 million children die from diarrhea each year—one of the most pervasive and preventable causes of child mortality. Though the water comes pristine from the tap, it still may be contaminated at home or not used properly to keep contamination at bay, says Jenna Davis, PhD, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
A lifetime of health differences: gender, hormones, and health
Understanding the differences in men’s and women’s physical and mental health is changing dramatically because of research in identifying lifelong patterns of disease. Tracking sex differences in human disease—from shortly after fertilization through childhood, puberty, adulthood, and old age—is providing insights into health issues specific to women, as well as men.
Heart transplant failure higher in women with common virus
Acute rejection of a transplanted heart is higher in women than in men. A recent study by a Stanford cardiologist shows that women who have been exposed to cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus that lies dormant in many adults, may be part of the reason. In a multi-site study funded by the National Institutes for Health (NIH), Hannah Valantine, MD, a Stanford professor of cardiovascular medicine and a Clayman Institute 2009-10 Faculty Research Fellow, helped to clarify the relationship between the virus and transplant failure, and now hopes to expand the study to determine how CMV affects women in particular.
The way we do our work matters
“What we do in our lives is important, but the way we do it is more important in transforming our world,” says Anne Firth Murray, a consulting professor of Human Biology at Stanford and Clayman Institute faculty research fellow. “We need to have concern for the well-being of women by interacting in a mutually empowering way. But the values and principles that emerge are the more important product.”
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