Ep. 80 A Conversation About Everything Vaginal Health with Priyanka Jain

Priyanka Jain is the Co-Founder of Evvy. She has always been passionate about leveraging data to improve outcomes for women.

She spent the past four years as Head of Product at pymetrics, where she focused on building algorithms to make hiring more fair, efficient, and transparent. Priyanka is also a spokesperson for the UN Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign, Chair of the Acumen Fund’s Junior Council, and she is on the Innovation Board for the XPrize Foundation

Priyanka holds a BSc from Stanford, where she was a Mayfield Fellow and President of Stanford Women in Business.

Hey everyone! Welcome to today’s episode of the Wright Conversations Podcast! For today’s episode, I’m joined by Priyanka Jain to talk about the missing research into vaginal health, the vaginal microbiome, and the lack of education. We also talk about the products aimed at improving vaginal health, the Evvy tests, and how Evvy is helping to unlearn the faults in sex education.

Let’s delve in!

 

In this Episode You’ll Learn:

• [01:05] A bit about Priyanka.
• [08:44] What is the vaginal microbiome?
• [12:54] The lack of knowledge.
• [17:32] The truth about vaginal health products.
• [21:47] What does the Evvy test do?

 

Quotes:

• “To this day, we are diagnosed on average 4 years later than men for over 770 diseases.” [03:32]