To serve as the focal point for women's health activities within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. To improve the health of women across the life span by stimulating and coordinating crosscutting activities in women's health research, health care service delivery, and public and health professional education and training within the Department of Health and Human Services; and with other government agencies, public and private organizations, and consumer and health care professional groups. To advise the Assistant Secretary for Health and serve as a critical Federal resource on scientific, medical, ethical, and policy issues related to the advancement of women's health.

AFRICAN AMERICAN / BLACK WOMEN, ODY IMAGE, REAST CANCER, CANCER, DEPRESSION/DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS, DIETARY GUIDELINES, DISABILITIES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DRUG USE, ABUSE, AND ADDICTION, EATING DISORDERS, HEALTH CARE ACCESS, HEART DISEASE, HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY, INTERNATIONAL HEALTH, HISPANIC & LATINA WOMEN, MAMMOGRAMS AND MAMMOGRAPHY, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, MENOPAUSE, MINORITIES, AMERICAN INDIAN / ALASKA NATIVE WOMEN, OSTEOPOROSIS, PACIFIC ISLANDER WOMEN, POLICY, POSTMENOPAUSE, PUBLIC HEALTH, RAPE, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, SMOKING, STROKE, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, VIOLENCE, AIDS/ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME, REASTFEEDING, AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES AND DISORDERS, HIV / HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS, WOMEN'S HEALTH, DISEASE PREVENTION, LUPUS, RISK FACTORS, ASIAN AMERICAN/ PACIFIC ISLANDER WOMEN, FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING, AGING/ELDERLY, DIET/FOOD, ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, HEALTH PROMOTION / DISEASE PREVENTION / SAFETY, MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING, NUTRITION, LEEDING DISORDERS, CULTURE / CULTURAL ISSUES, ADOLESCENTS/ADOLESCENCE, ALASKA NATIVE WOMEN, DIABETES - TYPE 1, DIABETES - TYPE 2, PUBERTY, CULTURAL COMPETENCY, FAITH-BASED INITIATIVES