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We've heard people all over the country

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about the importance of really

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advancing the health of women . I'm

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gonna be signing a presidential

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memorandum in just a minute here . To

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establish the first ever White House

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initiative on women's health research .

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The goal of the initiative is really to

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fundamentally change the way we

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approach and fund women's health

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research . The Department of Defense

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has really been a great partner in this

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and really has sat back , thought about

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this in a way that's . Really turning

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out to be extraordinarily meaningful

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and the changes that they're proposing

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are I think gonna make a difference in

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the health and the lives of women and

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men in terms of how they're gonna focus

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on not just the enrollment of women in

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studies but really thinking about how

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you design studies so that you can

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really look at outcomes referable to

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women . And we know that as the health

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of women improves , families improve ,

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and the nation thrives .