Trump signs order creating Women's Health Division at NIH
Trump signed an order directing HHS to create a Women's Health Division at the NIH and a federal task force led by Robert F Kennedy.
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President Trump signed an executive order in the Rose Garden creating a Women's Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. The order directs the Department of Health and Human Services to set up the division. Trump said it would focus on diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect women and remain understudied, and would promote new research and innovative technologies to diagnose conditions sooner and improve treatment.
Trump said the order also establishes a White House Women's Health Task Force, to be led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy. He said the task force would mobilise the entire federal government to coordinate action on women's health and would hold its first meeting the same day. He credited first lady Melania Trump with conceiving the initiative. Trump said he had asked whether such a division already existed, and added that it had not been done before his administration.
October is breast cancer awareness month, and Trump used the event to praise White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, saying she had recently won her battle against breast cancer and calling her a fighter. He also thanked a long list of officials, including second lady Usha Vance, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, CDC Director Erica Schwartz, acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamante and Surgeon General nominee Nicole Saphier. He said he expected Saphier to be approved quickly once the Senate returns.
The remarks mixed the policy announcement with praise for officials and some digressions. Trump presented the division as a historic step and said many women's health conditions had been chronically understudied. No further detail was given on the division's budget, staffing or timetable.
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Sky News carried a long, largely uninterrupted clip of Trump's Rose Garden remarks, with the anchor introducing it as an executive order event on women's health. The emphasis is on the ceremony and Trump's own account: Melania's role, the surprise that no such division existed, the list of officials present and a personal aside about Susie Wiles and breast cancer. There is little scrutiny of the policy detail or cost, and the segment stays close to the administration's framing.
- “We'll direct the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a new Women's Health Division within the National Institute of Health.”
- “So today's order also establishes the White House Women's Health Task Force”
- “This historic initiative conceived by Melania will promote”
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