President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Oct. 19 that creates a new division at the National Institutes of Health and a women’s health task force.

The order states the Trump administration is committed to advancing women’s health and that more research is needed into various aspects of women’s health, including heart disease, cancer, chronic pain, and infertility.

It also said that the NIH shall create a Women’s Health Division to increase scientific review of women’s health conditions, advance and coordinate research on these conditions, and work to reduce the time to diagnosis and treatment of health problems.

“For generations, women have faced unanswered questions about conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect them,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement.

“This new NIH division will confront those questions with gold-standard science, accelerate research into prevention and treatment, and turn medical discoveries into better care for women and girls across America.”

The White House Women’s Task Force, meanwhile, will be chaired by Kennedy and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. Members include War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Erica Schwartz.

The task force, which was meeting for the first time on Monday, was directed to make sure the government “pursues a comprehensive approach to women’s health that recognizes evolving health needs from infancy, childhood, and adolescence through pregnancy, midlife, menopause, and aging, and supports necessary policy and regulatory reforms to ensure timely and stage-specific prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care for women.”

The task force is going to try to strengthen research and initiatives for women’s health, advance patient-centered care, and consult with states on strategies to turn research results into practice, according to the order.

“This historic initiative will promote new research and really go after the understudied diseases affecting women and promote innovative technologies to diagnose conditions sooner and improve treatment using the best available science,” the president said during the signing.

First Lady Melania Trump emphasized the importance of the developments.

“This is a transformative moment for women in America,” she told those assembled. “Beginning today, we will change the reality of women’s health. Previous generations fought for women’s rights. Our generation will fight to discover the cures that will ensure a woman can live her life in health and to the fullest.”