# Women's Health Responsible Investing Consortium

Women's health remains chronically underfunded, despite being a gateway to untapped market opportunities. The Alliance is developing an undeniable business case for women's health to unlock resources critical to advancing women's health outcomes.


## Close the Women’s Health Gap. Unlock Value.

Women’s health receives only 6% of private healthcare investment, and companies focused exclusively on women’s health attract less than 1%. Nearly 90% of capital is concentrated in just three areas- reproductive health, maternal care, and women’s cancers- leaving significant unmet needs across many other conditions that affect women uniquely, differently, or disproportionately.Despite clear economic, societal, and macroeconomic benefits, women’s health continues to be perceived as a “niche” market. As a result, many women’s health conditions remain under-researched, under-innovated, and under-funded.This underinvestment directly affects women’s health outcomes, workforce participation, scientific progress, and long-term economic resilience.


## Structural Challenges Holding Back Investment

The financing ecosystem is plagued with structural issues that disadvantage women's health:


### Limited Visibility of Women’s Health Innovations

Promising solutions often lack the visibility, funding, and support needed to scale due to fragmented networks, historical underinvestment, and limited investor awareness.


### Limited Data

Fragmented data, limited sex-disaggregated evidence, and the absence of standardized market, financial, and health metrics make it difficult for investors to assess ROI, compare opportunities, or health impact — reinforcing uncertainty and limiting capital flow.


### A Disconnected Ecosystem

A lack of structured platforms to connect innovators, investors, and other market shapers results in missed opportunities for collaboration, funding, and knowledge-sharing.


## The Opportunity


### Women's Health Investment Outlook

The Women’s Health Investment Outlook provides a systematic, data-driven quantification and mapping of private capital flowing into early-stage women’s health innovation. It analyses trends across conditions that affect women uniquely, differently, or disproportionately, presenting a clearer picture of where investment is occurring- and where gaps persist.The Outlook offers investors transparent insights into market activity, funding patterns, areas of whitespace, and emerging opportunities. Its goal is to improve understanding of the women’s health investment landscape and support more informed, evidence-based decision-making.Read our report


### Women’s Health Responsible Investment Consortium

In response to the Outlook’s findings, the World Economic Forum is launching the Women’s Health Responsible Investment Consortium, a cross-sector platform that brings together investors, companies, philanthropies, innovators, and other stakeholders to advance shared priorities and increase private-sector investment in women’s health. The women’s health investment gap cannot be closed by any single actor. It requires coordinated action across the investment community, industry leaders, philanthropy, and public institutions- each addressing the barriers where they can drive the greatest impact.


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### Join us

to unlock critical investments and boost innovation in women's health.

[Get involved](https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-alliance-for-womens-health/get-involved)