Blueprint to Close the Women%E2%80%99s Health Gap 2025

Hassan Belkhayat Co-Founder, Southbridge A&I Tisha Boatman Executive Vice-President, External Affairs and Healthcare Access, Siemens Healthineers Charlotte Ersbøll Senior Advisor, Safe Birth Advocacy & Partnerships, Ferring Pharmaceuticals Helga Fogstad Director of Health, UNICEF Melissa Laitner Senior Program Officer and Special Assistant to the President, National Academy of Medicine Ethel Maciel Secretary of Health Surveillance and Environment, Ministry of Health, BrazilKelle Moley Global Vice-President of Clinical and Translational R&D, Reproductive Medicine and Maternal Health, Ferring Pharmaceuticals Co-Chairs Sanjana Bhardwaj Deputy Director, Program Advocacy and Communications, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Amira Ghouaibi Head, Global Alliance for Women’s Health, World Economic ForumDeputy Board MembersWe extend our heartfelt gratitude to the esteemed experts from the deputy board members for their unwavering support and guidance throughout its development. The authors would also like to acknowledge the following contributors from the McKinsey Health Institute. Tamara Baer, Molly Bode, Jacqueline Brassey, Marie Busson, Natalia Camargo, Erica Coe, Michael Conway, Grail Doring, Kweilin Ellingrud, Kana Enomoto, Jessica Federer, Roxanne Green, Brad Herbig, Barbara Jeffrey, Anne Koffel, Pooja Kumar, Bansri Lakhani, Savannah Leonard, Orin Levine, Tosca Marmefelt, Kate Midden, Elizabeth Newman, Anastasia Perez Ternent, Taylor Rose, Devika Sandill, Aakriti Shah, Katelyn Shahbazian, Taylor Saunders-Wood, Isabella Tagliaferri, Pooja Tatwawadi We are thankful to Linda G. Griffith, School of Engineering Teaching Innovation Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and MacVicar Fellow at MIT, for her advice and guidance. We are grateful to the following people and organizations for their invaluable support in validating and sourcing data: Michelle Williams, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Cuilin Zhang, Chair Professor and Director, along with Fein Han, Research Associate, Global Centre for Asian Women’s Health (GloW) at the National University of Singapore; Joan-Paula Bor Malenya, Acting Head, the National Cancer Control Program in Kenya; Yemane Berhane, Professor, Addis Continental Institute of Public Health; Nefti Bempong-Ahun, Project Manager, the Global Surgery Foundation; Hassan Belkhayat, Managing Partner, and Saad Uakkas, Senior Associate, Southbridge A&I; Mackinnon Engen, Executive Director, Watsi; Talita Vieira Antonio, Advisor, the International Affairs Office, Ministry of Health of Brazil; and the Moroccan Society of Medical Sciences. Your expertise and unwavering support have been pivotal in ensuring the success of this platform.Christina Mack Chief Scientific Officer, IQVIA Vincent Martin Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of CincinnatiAmaal Starling Associate Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Michelle Williams Joan and Julius Jacobson Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Blueprint to Close the Women’s Health Gap: How to Improve Lives and Economies for All 51