IF GAPS IN CARE ARE CAUSING WOMEN’ S HEALTH OUTCOMES TO BE WORSE, OR IF MAJOR DISEASES ARE PREDOMINANTLY AFFECTING WOMEN, THEN THOSE ARE WOMEN’ S HEALTH ISSUES, EVEN IF WOMEN AREN’ T EXCLUSIVELY AFFECTED. probably even bigger than we think. Core women’ s health investment reached a new high of US $ 2.6bn in 2024. But when you include funding for adjacent diseases where women are affected differently or disproportionately, the investment amount grows to US $ 10.7bn. That data isn’ t included in what’ s generally considered to be women’ s health, but maybe it should be.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE REPORT BY JACKIE SPENCER, HEAD OF RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT FOR LIFE SCIENCE & HEALTHCARE BANKING AT SVB
The year 2024 was the biggest year for women’ s health investment yet. And it’ s
IF GAPS IN CARE ARE CAUSING WOMEN’ S HEALTH OUTCOMES TO BE WORSE, OR IF MAJOR DISEASES ARE PREDOMINANTLY AFFECTING WOMEN, THEN THOSE ARE WOMEN’ S HEALTH ISSUES, EVEN IF WOMEN AREN’ T EXCLUSIVELY AFFECTED. probably even bigger than we think. Core women’ s health investment reached a new high of US $ 2.6bn in 2024. But when you include funding for adjacent diseases where women are affected differently or disproportionately, the investment amount grows to US $ 10.7bn. That data isn’ t included in what’ s generally considered to be women’ s health, but maybe it should be.
In our 2023 Innovation in Women’ s Health report, we examined the powerful reasons women’ s health became a focus for healthcare innovation and discussed two waves of women’ s health investment.
More recently, the emergence of fertility and maternal apps brought a new wave of investment and conversation. In the next wave, funding was focused on solutions for the unique conditions affecting women.
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