Ep 84: The Trillion Dollar Opportunity in Women's Health and Research with Dr. Nirshila Chand DrPH

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Why, in a time of unprecedented technology and innovation, are we still so far behind in women's health and research? 

This compelling question drives today's conversation as Dr. Nirshila Chand, DrPH, MPH joins Dr. Helena Fowler, DCN and Mike Krause to explore the complex intersection of data, policy, and healthcare innovation that shapes women's health outcomes.

In this thought-provoking episode, we take a deep dive into the critical importance of population-level data and how it forms the foundation for meaningful healthcare advances and hypothesize about what will happen if we experience a women’s health brain drain. 

In this Episode:

🎧 Exploring how we’re the most technologically advanced we’ve ever been, yet we still struggle with data and research availability for women’s health

🎧 Disaggregating population level data to make it applicable to more specific communities 

🎧 PubMed as a first line resource for research  

🎧 Data availability, use, and privacy of health apps 

🎧 Stats around women’s health research funding 

🎧 Women’s health represents a Trillion-dollar opportunity globally by 2040

🎧 Brain drain in women’s health research 

🎧 The cyclic nature of research and policy (research impact policy; policy impacts research); research to innovation pipeline 

🎧 State level and county level implications 

🎧 How data and research are both top-down and bottom-up

🎧 The importance of collaboration in parallel with competition to forward momentum

Resources referenced in this episode: 

NIH Office of Women's Research Fact Sheets

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

The Women's Health Impact Tracking (WHIT) platform

Dr. Nirshila Chand, DrPH, MPH is a Mission-Driven Public Health Specialist dedicated to improving Health Outcomes for our communities locally and globally. Health care is a Human Right!! Our public health ecosystems and sectors have tremendous possibilities to continue redesigning equitable services, innovation, and entrepreneurship to improve the quality of life and outcomes for all of us. 

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