WHAM was created in response to the considerable funding gap, historical exclusion, and underrepresentation of women in health research.
Women have been an understudied species since 1993. Many inequities and biases still exist. While some progress has been made since 1993, when the National Institutes of Health mandated that women and minorities be included in any government-funded health research, there’s still a long way to go. And it wasn’t until 2016 that female mice were mandated by NIH to be included in clinical research.
How is it possible that 52% of the population has been left so far behind in medical research?
In 2018, WHAM was founded by Carolee Lee, who convened a group of businesswomen motivated to create an innovative dialogue and establish data that could impact this situation. And how could we continue to make decisions based on information that excludes half of our workforce, 2/3 of our wealth holders, nearly all of our spenders, and those who make majority of healthcare decisions?
It became apparent to us that we lacked evidence; we lacked data about the economic costs, benefits, and social impacts of attention to sex and gender in health research. And in our experience, change starts with data. In order to create change, we commissioned the RAND Corporation in January 2020 to begin a rigorous, focused study to quantify the costs and socioeconomic benefits of increased research funding focused on women.
WHAM, Women’s Health Access Matters, was registered as a 501c3 in January 2021 to catalyze accelerated research and investment in women’s health research.
WHAM is committed to making an impact in diseases and conditions that exclusively, differently, or disproportionately affect women across our four primary disease verticals:
Autoimmune Disease
Brain Health
Cancer
Heart Health
WHAM is bringing new awareness, voices, resources, and partners to drive change by working with leading, economists, scientists, research institutions, business leaders, and public health experts.
The lives of women and men will vastly improve through research that is equally inclusive of women and men in trials – and female and male animals in preliminary research. By conducting research in parity and reporting gender outcomes separately, health breakthroughs will be accelerated, and health outcomes around the world improved.
As women benefit from this research and reduce their burden of disease, they will improve their own wellbeing, which is directly connected to the wellbeing of our economy.
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When women are left out of health research, we all pay the price. #LungCancer research is no exception.
@MsMagazine cites our new WHAM Report on lung cancer, showing that doubling funding for women’s lung cancer research pays for itself 12 times over.
Women have historically been disenfranchised from medical research, specifically clinical trials.
https://msmagazine.com/2022/11/29/women-lung-cancer/
Happening now! Join this exciting conversation with @caroleewham and @ResearchAmerica.
Watch here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aV1TdUURSByeB1kjVQ-1bA
Coming up this Tuesday:
LJI Board Member and @WHAMnow founder and CEO Carolee Lee to join discussion for the Research!America Alliance's "The Future of Research is Female" webinar:
Register: https://bit.ly/3Vrez07
It was an honor getting to discuss the need to improve access to treatment for women with lung cancer alongside @GO2forLungCancr and @WHAMnow.
Women face unique barriers to access, and we must work together to improve this.
View our discussion: https://bit.ly/3iCdbt8
WHAM was honored to host a roundtable with our partner @Go2forLungCancr’s Laurie Fenton, Dr. Anne-Renee Hartman, Dr. @JulieBrahmer, and @MNallicheri for a lively discussion on how we can advance #WomensHealth research, and more.
Watch the conversation:
https://whamnow.org/events/lung-cancer-roundtable/
Join our founder and CEO @caroleewham for an exciting conversation with @ResearchAmerica tomorrow, December 6 at 2pm ET to discuss The WHAM Report and the importance of investing in women’s health research for society and the economy.
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https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aV1TdUURSByeB1kjVQ-1bA
"We are so grateful to be partnering [with WHAM] to continue to elevate the awareness around the public health imperative that this disease is for women"- Laurie Fenton Ambrose, GO2 Co-Founder, President & CEO
@WHAMnow #GO2forLungCancer #LCSM
Thank you to @go2forlungcancr; our speakers: @caroleewham, Laurie Fenton, Dr. Anne-Renee Hartman, Dr. @JulieBrahmer and @MNallicheri; and everyone that joined the live roundtable discussion today.
Watch our live roundtable discussion with @caroleewham, @Go2forLungCancr’s Laurie Fenton, Dr. Anne-Renee Hartman, Dr. @JulieBrahmer, and @MNallicheri as they discuss the results of The WHAM Report on Lung Cancer and its impact on women’s health.
Live now: https://burness.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bu08DwWKQ36VhdWpOFzCvQ
There’s still time to join the live roundtable discussion on the findings of our new WHAM Report on lung cancer, the #1 cancer killer of women, and its impact on women’s health and the economy.
Happening now:
https://burness.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bu08DwWKQ36VhdWpOFzCvQ
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