Chicago Women in Digital Health
This Chicago event on women’s health was centered around two panels, one on transforming patient care with AI, and another on policy & advocacy for women’s health.
Tag: women’s health
Why sex matters in research
This AAAS webinar explored the impacts of research gaps in studying sex, and the implications for care delivery and population health.
Book Review: Marcia C. Inhorn’s ‘Motherhood on Ice’
Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs by Marcia C. Inhorn (NYU Press, 2023) Since 2012, when egg freezing by vitrification (flash-freezing) emerged from…
BCG Weighs in on Women’s Health
BCG joins many others in articulating that female consumer / patient needs aren’t being met. This is a market ripe for innovation, disruption, and even aggregation. And hopefully,…
National Academies Reports on Women’s Health
The National Academies have just released a series of reports about how the The National Institutes of Health (NIH) needs to evolve to better support women’s health: They…
Women’s Hospital
As I learn more about the opportunities and challenges in the field of women’s health, I find myself reflecting on things I would not have noticed in the…
Women’s PAC – Boston Event
I had the opportunity to participate in a Women’s Health PAC in Boston. We heard from some luminaries in the field, and I left feeling inspired by what…
IWH: Meet the Founder – Alessandra Henderson, Elektra
As you have likely gathered from recent posts, I’m seeking opportunities to deepen my understanding of women’s health and get involved in this emergent space. On Friday I…
Putting British social medicine in conversation with Black feminist health science studies: considerations for racial health disparities
Introduction At present, we are living through several major, arguably foreseen, historical events and political shifts. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised and further fragmented …
How to Imagine the Unknown: Choosing an Arm Prosthesis
When amputation happens, it is an un-ignorable event. After the surgery, the person learns how to be an amputee, they learn to conceptualize their altered body. This work…
Who Decides What We Measure in Health Tech?
At present, there are several problems in women’s health that still remain poorly characterized and understudied. In my research on one such issue, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), it is…
“I’m Not an Anti-Vaxxer, I Just Don’t Want This Vaccine”: Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy among Pregnant Women
“The world isn’t made up of good people and death eaters.” -JK Rowling The world isn’t made up of people who choose to vaccinate and those who are…
Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India by Lisa Grabinsky
Sugar and Tension: Diabetes in Modern India Lesley Jo Weaver Rutgers University Press, 2019. 202 pages. Sugar and Tension is a must-read for anyone interested in how social…
Web Roundup: Gender and Health by Cinzia Greco
Nothing seems to be more self-evident than gender differences, and yet when we have to establish what these differences are, things seem to become complicated. Is it the…
anthro in the news 6/8/15
Porn-driven female genital esthetics The Globe and Mail reported on growing industry in women’s genital esthetics, illustrating its point with some details about genital-area waxing and skin t…