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HealthyWomen’s Funders
Read More: HealthyWomen’s FundersProgram Funders Alnylam Amgen Bayer BD BridgeBio CK Nutraceuticals Daiichi Sankyo Intuitive Johnson & Johnson Eli Lilly Merck Novartis Organon Pfizer PhRMA Radius Regeneron Sandoz Sanofi Servier Takeda UCB Event Funders Pfizer Corporate Advisory Council
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Schizophrenia 101
Read More: Schizophrenia 101Schizophrenia and the people living with it are highly misunderstood. The name itself is misleading: Schizophrenia means “split mind” in Latin, but the illness doesn’t cause “split,” or multiple, personalities. One in every 100 people — approximately 2 million individuals in the United States alone — is living with schizophrenia, a condition that can significantly…
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Viatris Eye Care Division Materials for Dry Eye Disease
Read More: Viatris Eye Care Division Materials for Dry Eye DiseaseIntro paragraph text placeholder Clinically Speaking: Questions and Answers About Dry Eye Disease Keeping an Eye on Dry Eye Español Add all translated materials here that HW creates Other Resources More Real. More Substance. Channel Dry Eye Foundation Dry Eye Zone This educational resource was created with support from the More Real. More Substance. YouTube…
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Administrative Assistant to Editorial Director
Read More: Administrative Assistant to Editorial DirectorAre you super organized but also laid back? Do you enjoy making sure all the moving parts of a project go smoothly? Do you have amazing project management and research skills and feel passionate about women’s health? HealthyWomen is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating women about health topics so they can make informed decisions…
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Healthy for the Holidays: Real Women, Real Stories
Read More: Healthy for the Holidays: Real Women, Real StoriesAfter Being in a Toxic Marriage, I’m Finding Joy in Hanukkah Again
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National Action Plan Survey
Read More: National Action Plan SurveyHealthyWomen wants women to know that we are our own best advocates — and that self-advocacy is most effective when we are empowered by knowledge about our bodies and our health. Out of our commitment to you and your health the National Action Plan (NAP) was born. Designed to identify the gaps in midlife women’s…
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March Policy Roundup
Read More: March Policy Roundup1. HealthyWomen recognizes Obesity Care WeekDuring the first week of March, known as Obesity Care Week, HealthyWomen senior policy advisor Martha Nolan wrote an Op-Ed that was published in The Hill. In the piece, Nolan argued that the way obesity care is currently provided is broken, steeped in stigma and misconceptions that obesity is simply…
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Beyond the Body: Perspectives From Real Women
Read More: Beyond the Body: Perspectives From Real WomenBeyond the Body: Perspectives From Real Women Through our Reclaim Your Wellness campaign, HealthyWomen and the Black Women’s Health Imperative in collaboration with the Obesity Action Coalition are changing the conversation around living with obesity. More than 93 million Americans are living with obesity. Yet it’s often perceived by society and the healthcare community as…
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February Policy Roundup
Read More: February Policy Roundup1. HealthyWomen supports a bill to advance research into uterine fibroids This month, in honor of Black History Month, HealthyWomen senior policy advisor Martha Nolan published an Op-Ed in The Hill urging Congress to pass a bill that would increase funding for research and education on uterine fibroids. Uterine fibroids are noncancerous tumors that grow…
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December Policy Roundup
Read More: December Policy Roundup1. The White House hosted the first Maternal Health Day of Action On Tuesday December 7, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris hosted the first-ever White House Maternal Health Day of Action. Harris highlighted federal efforts and recommendations to reduce maternal mortality, such as proposals to create universal screening for maternal mental health conditions, extending pregnancy-related…
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September Policy Roundup
Read More: September Policy Roundup1. Advancing NIH Research on the Health of Women HealthyWomen is working to inform the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) upcoming meeting “Advancing NIH Research on the Health of Women: A 2021 Conference” by providing comments on the effort. HealthyWomen identified major challenges and opportunities that exist to address rising maternal morbidity and mortality rates,…
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Elektra Health’s 2021 Menopause Taboo Smashers
Read More: Elektra Health’s 2021 Menopause Taboo SmashersEarlier this week, Elektra Health, the menopause care and education organization, announced its list of 2021 “Menopause Taboo Smashers.” I am beyond honored to be included as a menopause advocate alongside such visionary leaders as Dr. Cindy Duke, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Margaret Cho, Omisade Burney-Scott and other fierce female trailblazers who break taboos and…
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July Policy Roundup
Read More: July Policy Roundup1. A Proposed Bill Boosts Funding for Women’s Health The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee released a draft Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding bill for fiscal year 2022. The proposed bill includes an additional $55.2 billion for maternal health, mental health, gun violence prevention and opioid abuse. The bill…
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June Policy Roundup
Read More: June Policy Roundup1. The Affordable Care Act Lives to Fight Another Day On June 17, 2021, the United States Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit that would have made the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional. The argument, brought by several Republican state attorneys general, was that Congress had effectively undone the individual mandate by making the tax penalty…
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May Policy Roundup
Read More: May Policy Roundup1. HealthyWomen Celebrates Women’s Health Week HealthyWomen was proud to support National Women’s Health Week (NWHW), held the week of May 9 to 15 and led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health (OWH). NWHW serves as a reminder for women and girls to take care of their health.…
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April Policy Roundup
Read More: April Policy Roundup1. HealthyWomen Advocates for New Pain Treatments at the FDA Monica Mallampalli, Ph.D., HealthyWomen’s senior scientific advisor, provided testimony at the FDA’s joint meeting of the Arthritis Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee Meeting in late March 2021. The meeting was to review a potential osteoarthritis drug that could provide…
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Celebrate Women’s Health Month with HealthyWomen
Read More: Celebrate Women’s Health Month with HealthyWomenJoin HealthyWomen’s CEO, Beth Battaglino, as she leads conversations with experts from our accomplished Women’s Health Advisory Council on Wednesdays in May on Instagram Live. Each week we will take a closer look at a specific topic that affects women of all ages. We hope you will join us on Instagram Live for these important…
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Women’s Health Advisory Council (WHAC)
Read More: Women’s Health Advisory Council (WHAC)Our Women’s Health Advisory Council includes a network of medical experts and health professionals who specialize in a range of health conditions pertinent to the women we serve. This group of experts and doctors lend their expertise to inform our content, and medically review our resources for accuracy. Meet our Women’s Health Advisory Council members.…
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How We Got the COVID-19 Vaccine So Quickly and Safely
Read More: How We Got the COVID-19 Vaccine So Quickly and SafelyMedically Reviewed by Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD Developed in record time, the first COVID-19 vaccine was authorized on December 11, 2020, for use in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that day, followed by a similar authorization for Moderna’s vaccine a week later.…
