Women’s Midlife Health is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special theme issue on Stress and Midlife Health.

Guest edited by Nancy Fugate Woods (University of Washington School of Nursing), Nicole Jaff (University of the Witwatersrand) and Lynnette Leidy Sievert (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this special issue will highlight key questions confronting women and clinicians regarding stress and its impact on health and functioning during the midlife years. 

We are looking for papers that address the impact of chronic stress across the life-course on ovarian aging and disease expression, including disparities in disease timing and prevalence, as well as papers addressing the nature and types of stressors experienced by women as they transition through midlife, including the role of menopause and menopausal symptoms.  Papers may address acute or chronic stress, perceived stress or specific types of stress including financial difficulties, role stress, life events, discrimination, or abuse. Descriptive papers providing data on changing patterns of stressors or perceptions of stress, or analytical papers assessing stress and its relationship to aging, are welcome.

We request that papers be submitted by September 15, 2017. Papers can be submitted via Editorial Manager at https://www.editorialmanager.com/wmlh/default.aspx.

If you would like your article to be considered for the thematic series or would like more information, please contact stefanie.howard@biomedcentral.com.

Dr. Siobán D. Harlow, Editor-in-Chief

Siobán D. Harlow, PhD, is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Integrated Approaches to Complex Diseases at the University of Michigan and adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Michigan State University. She is Principal Investigator of the Michigan site of the 20–year multi-ethnic cohort Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) and for the SWAN Repository and chaired the 2011 consensus conference: “STRAW+10: Addressing the Unfinished Agenda of Staging Reproductive Aging”. From 2003–2009, she served on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, Division of Reproductive Health Research, World Health Organization.