These numbers should make us uncomfortable.
🫀 Women are more likely to be misdiagnosed after a heart attack.
💰 Hospitals can receive more money for comparable procedures performed on men.
📉 Less than 0.3% of philanthropic giving directly benefits women’s health.
These are not isolated statistics—they reflect gaps in research, investment and care that affect women daily.
You can directly support women’s health research by clicking the fundraiser on this post.
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Unfortunately, less than 1% of global research funding going towards women’s health related conditions beyond cancer is a real stat.
We’re upset about it too, so we’re doing something about it — funding the early-stage research that can lead to the groundbreaking discoveries women’s health desperately needs.
That 1% doesn’t move on its own. Donate button is right here — tap it.
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Pregnancy transforms the body—but what it does to the brain remains largely unknown. 🧠
Dr. Laura Pritschet at UPenn is working to change that. As a 2025 WHAM Edge Award recipient, she is studying how the brain changes during pregnancy and postpartum—research that could help shape better care for millions of women.
The questions are urgent. The researchers are ready. What they need is funding. 🔬
Help support the next breakthrough in women’s health research 💙
Menopause affects every woman. So why are so many of us left unprepared? 🤔 It’s time for more research, education, and support. Follow us to learn more about the gaps in women’s health.
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Investment in women’s health is receiving more attention than ever. So how do we turn that momentum into lasting change? 📈
Fast Company highlights what is driving the shift:
✅ Better science is revealing needs that have long been overlooked
✅ A historic $124 trillion wealth transfer could give women greater influence over where money is invested
✅ AI could help uncover conditions that have been missed—but biased data could also repeat and expand existing gaps
✅ Employers and health systems are recognizing the real cost of gaps in women’s health
Attention is growing. Now it must translate into sustained investment in research, innovation and better health outcomes for women.
🔗 Read more at the link in bio.
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5 facts you should know about most of the world’s population:
⚡Women make 80% of household healthcare decisions in the U.S.
⚡90% of menstruating women report at least one premenstrual symptom.
⚡Women account for nearly two-thirds of all cases of blindness and visual impairment globally.
⚡Women provide approximately 65% of all unpaid caregiving in the U.S.
⚡Arthritis is one of the most common chronic conditions in women in the U.S.
Women are making healthcare decisions, providing care and navigating health challenges every day.
The investment in their health should reflect the role they play in all of ours.
🔗 Help move women’s health forward by clicking the fundraiser above.
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WHAM: Redefining the Health of Women
Women represent more than half of the population and drive the majority of healthcare decisions, yet women’s health remains significantly undercapitalized across research, product development, and private investment. By validating the economic opportunity and connecting stakeholders across the innovation pipeline, WHAM catalyzes market growth and advances innovation that improves healthspan and longevity for everyone.
Why WHAM Exists
WHAM was created in response to a longstanding gap in health research: women have historically been underrepresented in studies, clinical trials, and product development despite their central role in healthcare systems and economies.
Although policies requiring the inclusion of women in federally funded research were introduced in the 1990s, major disparities in funding, evidence generation, and innovation persist. These gaps have far-reaching consequences for health outcomes, workforce participation, and economic stability.
Our Founding Vision
In 2020, WHAM Founder Carolee Lee convened leaders from business, finance, and philanthropy to address this systemic challenge. The group recognized that durable change would require rigorous evidence demonstrating the economic costs of underinvestment and the potential returns of increased research focused on women.
To establish this foundation, WHAM commissioned the RAND Corporation to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the health and socioeconomic benefits of increased investment in women’s health research.
WHAM was established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2021 to catalyze accelerated research, innovation, and investment in the health of women, led by an esteemed board of expertise.
How We Drive Impact
WHAM aligns expertise, capital, and leadership to accelerate progress from discovery to real-world impact through a coordinated ecosystem of collaboratives and initiatives.
WHAM has three main platforms of expertise:
The WHAM Report
A series of studies that quantify the costs and economic benefits of increasing investments in women’s health research. Our intention was to build the business case for funding research focused on women by asking, “what are the economic impacts of increasing investment in women’s health research.”
The WHAM Edge Awards
The WHAM Edge Awards support early-career investigators pursuing groundbreaking research on sex-based differences in four critical areas: heart disease, brain health, autoimmune disease, and cancer.
The WHAM Collaboratives
Bringing together global investment leaders from VC, corporate VC, family offices, endowments, foundations, and government, similar to the WHAM Research Collaborative, to be the industry leading catalyst enabling us to achieve, and surpass, our goal to double VC investment for women.
The WHAM Research Collaborative
The Opportunity Ahead
The lives of women and men will vastly improve through research and product development that is equally inclusive of women and men in trials – and female and male animals in preliminary research. By conducting research and developing products in parity and reporting sex outcomes separately, health breakthroughs will be accelerated, and health outcomes around the world improved.
As women benefit from this research and development and reduce their burden of disease, they will improve their own wellbeing, which is directly connected to the wellbeing of our economy.
WHAM is committed to making an impact in diseases and conditions that exclusively, differently, or disproportionately affect women.
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Women are 51% of the population but receive only a fraction of biomedical research funding. Sex differences are still often ignored, even in diseases that hit women hardest. Advancing sex-based research closes that gap, sparks innovation, and delivers more precise care for everyone. Support the future of health—for women, and for all.
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Donate to Autoimmune Disease Research
Four out of five Americans with autoimmune disease are women—40 million lives impacted—yet the science hasn’t kept up. In 2019, only 7 % of the NIH’s rheumatoid arthritis budget focused on women. Dedicated funding can pinpoint why women are so vulnerable and drive better diagnostics, therapies, and quality of life. Fuel research that will change lives.
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Donate to Brain Health Research
Women make up two-thirds of Alzheimer’s cases and are twice as likely to suffer depression—yet we still don’t know why. Targeted, sex-specific studies can reveal the biological and clinical differences that unlock earlier diagnosis, smarter treatments, and healthier minds. Your gift drives that discovery.
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Donate to Cancer Research
Most cancer studies still default to male models, overlooking critical sex differences in how cancers start, spread, and respond to therapy. Lung cancer now kills more women than breast, ovarian, and cervical cancers combined, and rates are soaring among young, non-smoking women. Boosting sex-based cancer research will reveal why—and lead to breakthroughs in screening, care, and survival. Help us accelerate that work.
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Donate to Heart Health Research
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, but it remains underfunded, under-researched, and underdiagnosed. Nearly half of women over 20 have cardiovascular disease, pregnancy heart risks are widespread, and women are 50% more likely to die after a heart attack. Focused research can rewrite those odds—changing how heart disease is detected, treated, and prevented in women. Invest in saving women’s hearts.
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