Society for Women's Health Research
The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) is a national thought leader dedicated to advancing women’s health and promoting research on sex differences to optimize women’s health. SWHR plays a critical role in identifying clinical and research gaps; raising awareness of diseases, conditions, and life stages that differently, disproportionately, or exclusively affect women; and promoting policies that could positively shape health outcomes for women. Over its more than 30-year history, SWHR has been advancing women’s health through its core functions of science, policy, and education.www.swhr.org
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Sep 30, 2026
Kate GlavanHOST
Are there any of the women health organizations that you'd want to shout out or highlight for the listeners to go learn more about?
Zakiya ThomasGUEST
Yeah, so if you want to learn about legislation, the Society for Women's Health Research, swhr.org, they are fantastic.
Zakiya ThomasGUEST
So they track legislation for women's health.
Zakiya ThomasGUEST
So you can see what legislation has been introduced in the past and what's currently going through Congress right now.
Katie SchubertGUEST
How do we make sure that women have what they need when they walk into their clinician's office to understand what it is that they're experiencing in those measly 15 minutes that they have with their clinician? She
Norah O'DonnellHOST
is the president and CEO for the Society for Women's Health Research.
Norah O'DonnellHOST
Katie Schubert, thank you so much for joining us.
Norah O'DonnellHOST
We don't have
Norah O'DonnellHOST
A coalition of nearly 60 of the nation's leading medical societies and organizations have unveiled a national strategy dedicated to closing the women's health gap.
Norah O'DonnellHOST
And joining me now is the main architect of that strategy, Katie Schubert.
Norah O'DonnellHOST
She is the president and CEO for the Society for Women's Health Research.
Norah O'DonnellHOST
Katie, thank you so much for joining us.
Andrea GiancontieriGUEST
And we'll be discussing some things that I don't know what we're discussing yet, but I'll be in a meeting with a great room of people next month.
Andrea GiancontieriGUEST
I've also done some work with the Fuchsia Tent and the Society for Women's Health Research on workplace And I am coming out in conjunction with Circle Strategies, which is an HR consulting firm.
Andrea GiancontieriGUEST
We are coming out with our own menopause in the workplace training and curriculum for businesses here in Massachusetts.
Victoria ByrdHOST
Oh, good.
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Andrea GiancontieriGUEST
Yeah.
Andrea GiancontieriGUEST
And, and so I, We need the people in our lives to come along and understand that they also have some responsibility.
Andrea GiancontieriGUEST
Thank goodness for the Society for Women's Health Research.
Andrea GiancontieriGUEST
That's why we started to become part of clinical trials starting in 1993.