What we do
The Foundation for Women’s Health was created to fund the gaping holes in women’s health research.
While many wonderful institutions exist to address specific research areas in women’s health, FWH is looking at the funding landscape holistically across the entire female life cycle to identify gaps in knowledge and then strategically fill them. We identify the areas where funding opportunities do not exist so that we can efficiently fill gaps in women’s health research without duplication of those areas that are already well-funded. FWH disseminates findings not only through medical and academic channels, but also through traditional news media and social media, to ensure that novel findings are translated into practical applications that affect women’s health today.
Our medical advisory board, comprised of leading national experts in women’s health from across the country, identify the gaps in existing academic literature, and our foundation provides funding for the most promising clinical studies to fill those gaps.
The role of the medical advisory board is to:
Identify underfunded research areas in women’s health
Elicit creative proposals from leading medical research institutions across the country
Evaluate the methodology and impact of submitted proposals
Disseminate findings through professional networks to incorporate into clinical practice and medical school curricula
Medical Advisory Board
The medical advisory board is also responsible for ensuring that their professional networks disseminate both the availability of FWH’s grants and the resulting findings for practical application beyond academic publications. This is why our medical advisory board was designed to be diverse in both expertise and geography, so that grant-funded findings are disseminated widely within medical institutions and novel learnings can be incorporated in real time into medical school curricula.