Congressional Briefing: The New Path Forward in Women’s Health

HealthyWomen hosted a congressional briefing about new research plans for women’s health and their potential to transform women’s healthcare.

Women make up more than half the U.S. population, but a lack of research and data on women’s health has left major gaps in knowledge about how various conditions specifically impact women. There has been a significant push to close those gaps by focusing attention and funding on health areas that solely, disproportionately or uniquely affect women across the lifespan, such as autoimmune diseases, brain disorders, cardiovascular disease, reproductive health and cancer. The past year has seen new government efforts to galvanize women’s health research, develop innovations to address gaps and ensure that ALL women have access to quality care.

View the recording below to learn more about this work, its ripple effect across the women’s health ecosystem and actions that Congress can take to continue to make progress for women everywhere.

Presentation Slides

Beth Battaglino, RN-C
President and CEO, HealthyWomen

Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH
Adjunct Faculty, Carey School of Business at the Johns Hopkins University; President and CEO, ZGDG Associates

Seileen Mullen
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (PDASD(HA)), Department of Defense

Jenica Patterson, PhD
Portfolio Lead of the Sprint for Women's Health, Project Accelerator Transition Innovation Office (PATIO), ARPA-H

Kathryn Rexrode, MD, MPH
Chief, Division of Women’s Health in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Director, the Office for Women’s Careers in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School