Resources

Blueprint to close the women’s health gap: How to improve lives and economies for all

World Economic Forum and McKinsey Health Institute

Summarizes strategies and data on closing the women’s health gap to improve health outcomes and drive economic growth globally.

BMJ Collection on Women’s Health Innovation

BMJ

Open source collection summarizing research, analysis, and opinion on advancing women’s health innovation, focusing on ethical, data-driven approaches, leadership, and healthcare solutions.

Bridging Research Integrity and Global Health Epidemiology (BRIDGE) Statement: Guidelines for Good Epidemiological Practice

Alba, S., et al.

Provides guidelines for good epidemiological practice in global health, focusing on research integrity and fairness for researchers, funders, and stakeholders.

Bridging the gap: advancing inclusive research for pregnant and lactating women in global health R&D

Impact Global Health

Summarizes the evidence gap, funding, and clinical trial inclusion of pregnant and lactating women in global health R&D, focusing on HIV/AIDS, malaria, and Zika.

Building Evidence for Advancing New Treatment for Rifampicin Resistant Tuberculosis Comparing a Short Course of Treatment With the Current South African Standard of Care.

ClinicalTrials.gov

Provides information on a clinical trial to compare the efficacy and safety of a Study Strategy consisting of 6 months of bedaquiline (BDQ), delamanid (DLM), and linezolid (LNZ), with levofloxacin (LVX) and clofazimine (CFZ) compared to the current South African Standard of Care (Control Strategy) for 9 months for the treatment of rifampicin resistant (RR-TB) Tuberculosis.

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022-2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators

Provides forecasts and scenario analyses of global disease burden, life expectancy, and risk factor impacts for 204 countries and territories to 2050 to support health policy planning.

Can investors help women’s health break through the glass ceiling?

Deloitte

Summarizes US health tech and women’s health investment trends, challenges, and opportunities, providing data and insights to inform stakeholders and guide strategic decisions.

Cardiovascular Disease and the Female Disadvantage

Woodward, M. 

Summarizes sex differences in cardiovascular disease, highlighting female disadvantages in risk, treatment, and research, to inform improved women's health strategies.

Cell Therapy In The Treatment Of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence: Current Status And Future Proposals

González Enguita et al.

Reviews clinical data, safety, efficacy, and challenges of cell therapy for female stress urinary incontinence to guide future research and clinical practice.

Chemo-immunotherapy: A New Trend In Cancer Treatment

Sordo-Bahamonde et al.

Reviews recent advances, mechanisms, clinical approvals, efficacy, challenges, and future directions of chemo-immunotherapy combinations for cancer treatment.

ClinicalTrials.gov

National Library of Medicine

Provides information on clinical studies, including trial design, eligibility, locations, and results, to support patients, healthcare professionals, and researchers in decision-making.

Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies

McKinsey Health Institute

Summarizes data on the global women’s health gap, its economic impact, root causes, and strategies to improve health equity and drive economic growth.

Common Data Set for Adverse Event Data Exchange Between IMDRF Regulators

IMDRF

Provides information on the structure, fields, and use of a Common Data Set for international adverse event data exchange between medical device regulators.

ConcePTION data

IMI ConcePTION

Provides information on medicine safety during pregnancy and breastfeeding, offering research data, guidelines, and tools to support informed healthcare decisions for women and professionals.

Contraception R&D: Broadening Horizons To Meet A Diversity Of Needs

Impact Global Health

Summarizes global funding trends, key funders, and R&D focus areas in contraception to inform investment and innovation for diverse user needs.

Contraceptive Market Size & Share Analysis Report, 2030

Grand View Research

Provides information on global contraceptives market size, trends, growth drivers, segment analysis, and forecasts for strategic business and investment decisions.

Data Management in Biobanking: Strategies, Challenges, and Future Directions

Alkhatib et al.

Reviews strategies, challenges, and future directions in biobanking data management to inform best practices for research and clinical applications.

Deep learning models reveal replicable, generalizable, and behaviorally relevant sex differences in human functional brain organization

Ryali et al.

Provides information on using deep learning to identify robust, replicable, and behaviorally relevant sex differences in human functional brain organization.

Defining ethical criteria to guide the expanded use of Noninvasive Prenatal Screening (NIPS): Lessons about severity from preimplantation genetic testing

Gallios et al.

Reviews ethical criteria for preimplantation genetic testing and proposes severity-based criteria to guide policy decisions on expanded noninvasive prenatal screening.

Dementia Clinical Trials Over The Past Decade: Are Women Fairly Represented? BMJ Neurology Open.

Pinho-Gomes et al.

Reviews data on women's representation and sex-disaggregated outcomes in dementia clinical trials since 2010 to inform equity and improve research practices.

Dementia Severity at Death: A Register-Based Cohort Study

Aworinde, J. et al.

Provides information on the distribution of dementia severity at death to inform clinical care and end-of-life service planning.

Description of basic quality management structure for biobanking and pre-analytical handling of human breast milk specimens

Innovative Medicines Initiative, Conception

Provides information on establishing quality management and pre-analytical procedures for biobanking human breast milk specimens to ensure high-quality research samples.

Developing New Pharmaceutical Treatments for Obstetric Conditions

David, A. et al.

Summarizes challenges, barriers, and strategies in developing new pharmaceutical treatments for obstetric conditions to inform best practices and stimulate further research.

Differences across the lifespan between females and males in the top 20 causes of disease burden globally: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Patwardhan et al.

Summarizes global sex differences in the top 20 causes of disease burden using GBD 2021 data to inform health policy and research priorities.