Future Women’s Health
Research Center
(FWHRC)

Identifying women’s real needs, analyzing them scientifically, adopting appropriate strategies and making recommendations about these needs, all require broad-based scientific research on different aspects of women issues.
In an attempt to extend and promote scientific research on women’s health issues, and to identify social and psychological harms being done to women, especially those who are exposed to such harms and threats due to their lack of opportunity to affect social changes, the Research Institute for Enhancing Women’s Lives (RIEWL), after conducting a need analysis and consulting with experts and researchers working on women’s issues, decided to establish the Future Women’s Health Research Center (FWHRC).
Intending to use specialized expertise in the field of women’s health and to prioritize scientific, applied and developmental research projects, FWHRC was founded in April 2005 with the permission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.
The scientific departments functioning in FWHRC have all placed the issue of women’s health as the focal point for their research activities, and with a comprehensive view analyze the individual, social, mental and physical dimensions of the issue. On this basis, three scientific and research departments have commenced their activities in the fields of women’s health, psychology, and social studies.

objectives
1. Conducting studies and research in order to contribute in the compilation of model strategies needed by the country’s policy makers and programmers regarding women’s issues
2. To depict the status of Iranian women and identify their problems by carrying out fundamental, developmental, strategic, and applied research projects
3. To promote women’s participation in cultural, social, economic and political activities
4. To develop educational justice, increase public awareness and enhance women’s empowerment with the ultimate goal of eliminating gender inequalities in Iran, the region and the world
5.  To help improve university education and post-graduate research programs with an aim to promote women’s health and quality of life in Iran, the region and the world
6.  To develop both national and international women’s health information systems