INNOVATION
Reimagining Women’s Health: Creating Solutions, Bridging Research and Care Women hold the keys to healthy families. They access the health system more than men, both for themselves and on behalf of their children and spouses. Additionally, many women experience major health events including pregnancy and childbirth. Illnesses and the medications used to treat them often impact females differently than males. Moreover, women live longer than men on average, resulting in greater risk for developing chronic medical conditions and greater disease burden related to such conditions. Yet, for too long, women have had to navigate a disjointed system built on biases with life-altering ramifications. Vital sex differences are often overlooked in diagnosis and treatment of disease and, until the 1990s, women were largely left out of medical research. This gap has not only resulted in incomplete knowledge, but potentially harmful side effects and disparities in outcomes.
“My mission is to promote the relevance of the brain to women’s health. The ability to work in this larger sphere is thrilling. There’s no place I’d rather be.” - C. Neill Epperson, MD 6
