This Thanksgiving, HealthyWomen is grateful to President Biden, First Woman Jill Biden and the White Home Gender Coverage Council for launching the first-ever Initiative on Girls’s Well being Analysis.
At HealthyWomen, we all know ladies’s well being is greater than gynecological or reproductive well being. It’s the head-to-toe well being of all ladies — who symbolize greater than half of the nation’s inhabitants.
For a lot too lengthy, ladies’s well being analysis has been underfunded and ladies have been underrepresented in scientific trials. Now we have made progress because the days when little males have been used as stand-ins for girls in scientific trials, however plenty of work nonetheless must be performed to make up for many years of misplaced analysis.
This lack of funding limits our understanding of how circumstances, and the therapies in growth to handle or treatment them, particularly have an effect on ladies. Girls’s well being outcomes are merely nonetheless not the place they need to be in 2023.
By means of the Initiative on Girls’s Well being Analysis, the White Home is taking a giant step in bettering well being outcomes for girls and sending a robust message that girls’s well being analysis must be prioritized on the federal stage.
Thanks President Biden, Dr. Biden and the White Home Gender Coverage Council. This initiative provides HealthyWomen, and all ladies throughout the nation, hope that the way forward for ladies’s well being will see a rise in innovation and a lower in analysis gaps.
