The agency behind the new Women's Health Division: what the National Institutes of Health is

Background

The new Women's Health Division ordered in the United States is to be built inside the National Institutes of Health, so the agency itself is the thing to know.
The National Institutes of Health, usually written NIH, is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
It is the country's main public funder and performer of medical research.
NIH states its purpose as seeking fundamental knowledge about the nature and behaviour of living systems.
It then applies that knowledge to improve health, lengthen life and cut illness and disability.
The agency traces its beginning to a one-room Laboratory of Hygiene set up in 1887.
Its work is organised through institutes and centres, each covering a disease area or a stage of life.
Among its existing units is the Office of Research on Women's Health, with which the new division is to work.