Global Alliance for Women's Health

A multisector platform shaping the future of women’s health.

We are committed to changing how women’s health is researched, funded and advocated for to close the women’s health gap.

Women are the foundation of healthy families, vibrant communities, and prosperous economies. Despite undeniable evidence that healthy women help everyone rise, profound gender gaps slowing progress for women’s health, with serious repercussions for global economies.

The Alliance is advancing women’s health research and innovation, unlocking more investments for women’s health, and centering women’s health in global discourse to raise awareness.

Our focus areas

The Global Alliance for Women's Health is addressing the women's health gap through three key focus areas.

Unlocking Financing

Unlocking investments and exploring innovative financing models to increase funding for women’s health.

Boosting Science and Innovation

Enabling progress for women’s health research, so  innovation meets women’s diverse needs, preferences, and lifestyles.

Improving Care Delivery

Addressing gaps in care delivery through partnerships driving regional impact and progress.

Reframing the Narrative

Centring women's health in global discourse, seeding new narratives and socializing critical data that illustrates the wide-ranging impact of healthy women.

Our impact on women's health

The Alliance is driving action and impact through five different workstreams.

Women's Health Impact Tracking Platform

This platform offers a unified, global, and transparent process for measuring and tracking the women's health gap. It seeks to inform strategies, policies, and investments, ultimately enhancing women's health outcomes.

Global Activator Network: Cervical and Breast Cancer Coalition

The coalition aims to accelerate collaboration and mobilize and strengthen commitments to support national goals in addressing cervical and breast cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Global Activator Network on Maternal Health

This initiative is promoting successful interventions, fostering country-to-country learning, providing blueprints for effective public-private partnerships, and cultivating robust country-level ecosystems dedicated to maternal health.

Women's Health Policy Transformation

This work aims to guide advocacy and policy to drive a culture change in medical research practices, and bring sex-based differences to the centre of medical research and clinical trials in order to improve medical scientific rigour.

Women's Health Responsible Investing Consortium

The consortium is a multi-stakeholder platform dedicated to promoting sustainable and responsible efforts and investments by sourcing, securing and allocating funds in women’s health.

Our flagship reports

Women's Health Investment Outlook

The Women’s Health Investment Index provides the first integrated, data-driven map of private-sector capital flows into women’s health across therapeutic areas, industry segments and investment types.

The Women’s Health Innovation Radar: Revealing Gaps and Opportunities Across the Science-to-Patient Journey

This report provides a comprehensive view of innovation across the full science-to-patient journey.

CARE for Women: Investing in Care Delivery to Improve Women’s Lives and Livelihoods

This report showcases how address care delivery gaps could help women reclaim 2.5 days of healthy life annually, avert tens of thousands of adverse medical events and generate a 3–6x return on investment through preventive care. 

Blueprint to Close the Women's Health Gap: How to Improve Lives and Economies for All

This report delves deeper into the women's health gap, exploring the nine conditions that form one third of the gap and the USD 400 billion opportunity from addressing them.

Closing the Women’s Health Gap: A $1 Trillion Opportunity to Improve Lives and Economies

This report explains the root causes of the women's health gap and the USD 1 trillion opportunity from closing it.

Explore the Women’s Health Innovation Interactive Dashboard

Discover where women’s health science and innovation are advancing – and where critical gaps remain. The dashboard tracks 10 conditions across the journey from scientific research to market ready solutions, helping illuminate opportunities to improve health outcomes for women.

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The Global Alliance for Women's Health

A World Economic Forum Initiative