A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a public workshop that addresses the integration of sexual and reproductive health considerations in clinical research, alongside an exploration of challenges and opportunities related to data resources and validation. The workshop aims to foster discussions on promoting research that more effectively incorporates considerations of sexual and reproductive health across the entirety of the reproductive lifespan and will focus on the feasibility of getting research done. The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions that may explore the following:

• The current state of sexual and reproductive health research and the practical implications of research findings for healthcare, policies, and communities.
• Select recent legislative and legal decisions impacting the ability to conduct research on sexual and reproductive health. This will include the role of researchers, sponsoring organizations, community-based organizations, institutional review boards, certificates of confidentiality to protect research and research participants, and data safety monitoring boards.
• Integrative methodologies that hold promise for improving comprehensive data collection, validation, and analysis, as well as overcoming research challenges, such as measurement accuracy.
• Potential benefits of cross-disciplinary research on sexual and reproductive health with discussion of successful interdisciplinary research initiatives and research areas and topics which could benefit from expanded interdisciplinary approaches.
• How reproductive justice, public health and socio-ecological frameworks could further guide and support comprehensive sexual and reproductive health research.
• Effective ways to train a diverse and multi-disciplinary workforce to conduct current and future research.

A proceedings-in-brief of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be produced by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.