WHRC Lead Dr. Liisa Galea spoke with the House of Commons Standing Committee for Health today and shared that when society values #WomensHealth we can realise #PrecisionMedicine and make discoveries to improve health for all, regardless of #gender . Webcast ➡️bit.ly/3JfQvZB

Women’s health is more than just what is covered by a 👙 it’s cardiovascular, renal, brain, lung, spleen, immune, skin, dental, it’s time our health was recognized for more than our ability to reproduce. (Or as Nichole Fairbrother said yesterday) we are more than just a “vessel”

New article: These study results found that violence exposure was associated with slower, more adult-like heart rate and that girls showed greater posttraumatic stress symptoms associated with slower HR while boys did not: ow.ly/FS4F50R50eE

Meet our Distinguished Fellow, Renu Khanna, a passionate advocate for women’s health and rights.

She tells us about her work in gender equity – how she became involved in this work - and her ambitions for compassionate and human health care: buff.ly/3VpWKl5

Now that the study of women's 🧠 health is gaining momentum💥, I could not miss the opportunity to present a roadmap to✨advance the neuroscience of human pregnancy ✨Susana Carmona Emily G. Jacobs Ann-Marie de Lange & I wrote this Comment for Nature Neuroscience🧵 nature.com/articles/s4159…

With the Women’s Six Nation’s Championship underway, there is mounting public concern regarding the risk of injuries to players.

theconversation.com/why-womens-rug…

🤔Ready to make a difference in the chemical sciences?

💰Apply for up to £5,000 to lead an Inclusion & Diversity project addressing the barriers to inclusive access & progression👉rsc.li/3R37HXr

💡YOUR ideas can shape the future

📌 Deadline 22 April #RealTimeChem

'Mothers are not dying because of diseases we cannot treat. They are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving.' - Professor Mahmoud Fathalla (RIP).
Honoured in the The BMJ
bmj.com/content/384/bm…

“A Body Made of Glass strengthened my belief that clinicians would do well to share doubts with their patients, becoming allies in uncertainty rather than antagonists”
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Fab review Dr Kate Womersley⁩!

A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton. theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Thanks to ABC News RN Breakfast and Sally Sara for chatting to Robyn Norton about the aims of the new Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine this morning.

Improving healthcare for women and gender-diverse people abc.net.au/listen/program…

Edinburgh’s first (possibly) sex and gender in medicine and science research meeting!
Organised by Dorien Kimenai, Jacqueline Maybin, Will Cawthorn, imagingmedsci, Jenny Regan, Rochefort_lab and me.
Open to all! Do join us.
2/5/24

The levonorgestrel (morning after pill) dose is doubled in BMI >26/ weight >70kg

..but if over half of UK adults are overweight/obese, do more people need a 'double dose' than not?

Another example where medicine's apparent reference woman isn't representative of our population?

Are you looking for funding for research that could save and change the lives of women, girls, and babies?

Wellbeing of Women has launched their first round of funding for 2024. This includes their Research Training Fellowships, Research Project Grants, & WoW-Reckitt Research…

Tomorrow is pub. day for Caroline Crampton’s A Body Made of Glass, a sometimes funny, sometimes painful reflection on hypochondria & its history.
In my Observer New Review piece, I ask doctors & patients to become
“allies in uncertainty rather than antagonists.”
theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Writing a feature on women's pain and looking to chat with women who take meds for one of the following:

Chronic back pain
IBD (crohns/colitis)
Migraines
Fibromyalgia
Arthritis
Fibroids

Lemme know if that's you please! [email protected] #journorequest

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Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Support for Research Careers in Health and Biomedicine is now available open access!

The book covers key EDI issues in research careers and practical interventions for academic and research settings. 📖

policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/nurturing-equa…

Earn more as a doctor for investigating men.

Pleasure chatting with Naman & Jo on Rad Chat ! We discuss #LGBTQ #cancercare , gender services and the intersection with oncology care, the work of OUTpatients 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ and the UK Cancer and Transition Service: wearetransplus.co.uk/uk-cancer-and-… 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 We also touch on busy portfolio careers!

Gender inequity in the clinical learning environment in 2024 - surely this isn't still a problem? Well, our latest paper suggests otherwise... Check out 'Girls in Scrubs' led by Dr Shalini Gupta #mededtwitter …epublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…