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Women's HealthInnovationForum

GW Healthcare Innovation presents

A roundtable symposium convening clinicians, trainees, and industry stakeholders to identify priority gaps and opportunities in women's health.

Date
To be announced
Location
Washington, DC
Format
In-person roundtable
Host
GW Healthcare Innovation
Registration closed
01AboutMission

Women's health remains under-innovated relative to the size of its clinical need.

The Women's Health Innovation Forum brings the people who deliver care, the people training to deliver it, and the people who build and fund new products into the same room. The goal is a shared, specific list of the problems most worth solving.

Discussion is organized around high-impact areas where current tools, evidence, or care models fall short. Each roundtable works toward concrete gaps and opportunities rather than general awareness.

01.1Previous forumGeorge Washington University
Founders and attendees of the Women's Health Innovation Forum gathered between two forum banners at George Washington University

Bringing trainees into dialogue with those building the field.

Founders and attendees at the previous Women's Health Innovation Forum.

02Focus areas4 domains
02.1Practice

Clinical care

Where diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for women fall short in practice, and what clinicians see that the market has missed.

02.2Evidence

Research

Evidence gaps, underrepresentation in trials, and the questions that need data before practice can change.

02.3Products

Innovation

Devices, therapeutics, diagnostics, and digital tools, and what it takes to move them from concept to clinic.

02.4Systems

Policy

Coverage, regulation, and funding structures that shape which women's health problems get solved.

03Format4 stages
Stage 1

Opening framing

Organizers set out the forum's aims and the focus areas for the day.

Stage 2

Roundtables

Mixed tables of clinicians, trainees, and industry participants work through priority gaps within each domain.

Stage 3

Report-out

Each table presents its top gaps and opportunities to the full group.

Stage 4

Synthesis

Priorities are consolidated into a shared summary for participants and partners.

04Who attends3 perspectives
GroupWhoRole
CliniciansPhysicians, pharmacists, nurses, and allied health professionals who see the unmet needs firsthand.Define need
TraineesAny trainee, from students and residents to fellows, in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, public health, or any other health field, who will carry these questions into their careers.Carry forward
IndustryFounders, investors, and product teams building and funding the next generation of women's health solutions.Build and fund
05RegisterClosed

Take a seat at the table.

Registration is currently closed

Registration for the next forum will open here. Clinicians, trainees, and industry partners interested in attending, speaking, or partnering are welcome to reach out in the meantime.

Registration closed

Contact: dylan.gao@gwu.edu