Future prospects and innovation in public goods funding for women and one health.

by @Faith Jeptoo

Sub-topics?

1.Innovative solutions benefiting women's health and one health?

2.Challenges and opportunities in the field for women's health and one health?

3. Why women's participation is important.

4.Quick guide to promoting women's participation?

?Introduction:

Public goods -is a commodity or service that every member of a society? can use without reducing its availability to all others?

NB: better future starts with investing in women's health?

Background:

The conventional understanding of women's health? which mainly centers on reproductive and maternal health must be redefined. When women globally have access to appropriate high-quality care they can plan their families, increase their household's resilience to shock and advance their education. Healthy women transform society.?

Women's health is currently an underserved area for innovation facing disproportionately low R&D funding relative to its burden to address this need ,bill and Melinda gates foundation and the us? national institute of health initiated an inclusive consultative ,cross sector effort to generate a women's health innovation opportunity map 2023 as a collaborative framework to advance women's health innovation.?

This opportunity map has 3 main components first it lays out nine broad topic of women's health innovation with unique challenges, needs and goals for each topic leading opportunities were identified? based on their potential for impact ,readiness scale, innovation feasibility, focus on women's unmet health needs and ability to improve health equity, finally specific solution strategies articulate actionable ways to realize each opportunity and create impact within the next 15 years .As such this opportunity map provides a guide that stakeholders across the women's health R&D ecosystem from researchers to entrepreneurs, investors, government bodies , biopharmaceuticals companies civil society and more can use to advance high impact investments and initiatives to improve women's health.

?Methodology.

A forum of over 250 experts and stakeholders -representing over 50 countries and diverse perspectives across various geographic regions and sectors that work in women's health gathered to develop the opportunity map .Members convened monthly from January to July 2023 and were? organized? into 11 sub -committees that identified and developed opportunities within each topic .They evaluated these opportunities against five criteria (PRIME),generating scores that the members compared by scorer demographics .This consultative process Culminated in July with the innovation equity forum (IEF) convening where forum members and special guest convened in person and Virtually for a hybrid meeting. During this event , participants engaged in information exchanges and participatory decision - making discussions .In topic -focused breakout groups ,they selected leading opportunities for inclusion in this report and formulated actionable solution strategies to realize each opportunity.

This opportunity map outline outlines a bold and actionable plan to address critical priorities for advancing women's health innovation. Innovators , influencers and advocates from across the women's health R&D ecosystem to work together to realize the opportunities presented in this report , including:

1. commit to equitable inclusion, participation and funding of women's- across the R&D continuum , including embedding sex and gender considerations at all stages?
2. Invest in the areas of women's health innovation- highlighted in this report that address critical needs for diverse groups of women and have high return on investment potential, including financial returns and health and social benefits?
3. ?Create a partnership- with the objective to strengthen the R&D ecosystem across the full scope of women’s health.

Scope for the women's health innovation opportunity map

Health issues: unmet needs in women's health, including for?

1. Female -specific health conditions?
2. ?Conditions that affect women disproportionately?
3. ?Condition s that affect women differently?
4. ?conditions that are under -studied or under resourced for women?

Affected population: women (including females assigned at birth, transgender and non -binary? People, across their lifespan worldwide, across different demographics including race, ethnicity, age, generation socio economic status, caste and More).

Timeframe for impact: Medium -to long term (within 15 years )

Types of R&D opportunities. 1.Description : to access the burden or risk factors for the health?

?Issues .

?2.Discovery : to discover or develop effective intervention to reduce or control the health issue .

?3.Development.to improve Upon or scale pre-exists and effective Interventions.

Partners whose values are represented :Funders, researchers, clinicians, patients, programs Implementers, policy makers, product and services Providers and women .

Expected returns from investment: Accelerated innovation for women's health and, ultimately,???? reduction in morbidity and mortality with increased wellbeing.

??Innovative solutions benefiting women's health and one health.

The female future program's objective is to increase female participation in decision making .

The female future programs consists of 15 days of training over nine months during this period participants receive training on board competence, rhetoric and leadership. The central goal of the program is to make the business environment more attractive to women to increase the share of women in decision making process, get business leaders to be driving force behind change and facilitate work related and family related responsibilities.

?Challenges and opportunities in the field for women's health and one health.

There are opportunities in the understanding of basic biology of sex differences , people have moved from thinking that women are simply men with higher levels of estradiol or men without testosterone and it's helping us understand different presentations of diseases in men and women.

Most pressing challenge is access .Making sure that those of lower socioeconomic class who are underserved can both be diagnosed earlier and receive treatment.

Also, there are opportunities and challenges in understanding aging In women ,so many diseases of aging disproportionately affect women because they live longer .

Women's health investment faces growing challenges ;fiscal constraints and regurgitant-gender , movement threaten hard won progress.?

?Why is women's participation important?

Gender mainstreaming is one of the strategies used to promote gender equality. It’s a process of ensuring that all of the work and the way it's done contributes to gender equality by transforming the balance of power between men and women. Women are often prevented from contributing to decision making in both the private and public sphere, women’s opinions are not heard or valued .people need to be sure that:

1. They understand the issues poor women face. Decisions and actions need to be based on knowledge of different needs and experiences, which can only be done by talking to both men and women.
2. They don't miss out on the knowledge, skills and experience that women have to offer. And which have potential to benefit the whole community.
3. They do not reinforce inequality. If women's voices are not heard ,their issues will remain invisible and their basic needs may not be met .

?Quick guide to promoting women's participation.

However, participation is about more than women being present. Steps must be taken to ensure that women's involvement is meaningful .

Steps :

1. ?Meet with women to explain that their participation is important and their views do matter .
2. similarly meet with men to break down their resilience to women participation and gain their support.
3. Ensure that one has a full understanding of the dynamics, structure, attitudes, beliefs and power in the community so as to anticipate? possible barriers.
4. Find ways to give women the confidence to voice their opinions.

?Conclusion

Women are the backbone of our economies and communities, so helping women achieve their full potential means ensuring a brighter future for everyone.

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