Dr. Carolyn Mazure

Biography

Carolyn M. Mazure is Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and the Founding Director of Women's Health Research at Yale. She has been at the forefront of NIH-funded research as an active clinician and has held various leadership roles, including Director of Psychiatry's Adult Inpatient Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Associate Dean for Faculty at Yale. In 1998, she established the Women’s Health Research center at Yale, which focuses on the interplay of sex, gender, and health. Under her guidance, the center has become a national model for conducting and translating research findings into health information for policymakers. In 2023, she was appointed Chair of the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research, addressing the need for a fundamental change in how women's health research is funded. Her research contributions primarily focus on depression, the leading cause of disability among women both in the U.S. and globally, exploring the interactions of biological and social factors in women's health. Dr. Mazure's work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Marion Spencer Fay Award and the Elizabeth Blackwell Award from the National Organization for Women. She has also participated in significant advisory roles, providing testimony to Congress on women's health and has been an invited speaker at prestigious institutions such as NASA and the Smithsonian Institution.

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