This Thanksgiving, HealthyWomen is grateful to President Biden, First Woman Jill Biden and the White Home Gender Coverage Council for launching the first-ever Initiative on Girls’s Well being Analysis.

At HealthyWomen, we all know girls’s well being is greater than gynecological or reproductive well being. It’s the head-to-toe well being of all girls — who symbolize greater than half of the nation’s inhabitants.

For a lot too lengthy, girls’s well being analysis has been underfunded and ladies have been underrepresented in scientific trials. We now have made progress for the reason that days when little males had been used as stand-ins for ladies in scientific trials, however a number of work nonetheless must be accomplished to make up for many years of misplaced analysis.

This lack of funding limits our understanding of how situations, and the therapies in growth to handle or treatment them, particularly have an effect on girls. Girls’s well being outcomes are merely nonetheless not the place they need to be in 2023.

By way of the Initiative on Girls’s Well being Analysis, the White Home is taking an enormous step in enhancing well being outcomes for ladies and sending a robust message that ladies’s well being analysis must be prioritized on the federal degree.

Thanks President Biden, Dr. Biden and the White Home Gender Coverage Council. This initiative provides HealthyWomen, and all girls throughout the nation, hope that the way forward for girls’s well being will see a rise in innovation and a lower in analysis gaps.