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Better healthcare for women starts with better research—but women's health hasn't always been a priority. We're working to change that by investing in groundbreaking research that leads to real impact.

Women's health is vital. Let's treat it that way.

Across every stage of life, women face complex health challenges that are still underfunded and under-researched. Changing this is vitally important.

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Join Women's Health Collective Canada in our mission to build an equitable and inclusive future for women's healthcare and research.

Why Care?

75%

Women experience up to 75% of adverse drug reactions.¹

7%

Only 7% of national funding goes to women's health research.²

70%

70% of patients with ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ are women.³

Sources
  1. (1) Source: Rademaker, M. (2001) Do Women Have More Adverse Drug Reactions? American Journal of Clinical Dermatology 2 (6): 340–351. DOI: 10.2165/00128071-200102060-00001
  2. (2) Source: Partnership for Women's Health Research. (2022). What is women's health research and why is it important? https://pwhr.org/what-is/ Accessed March 2023.
  3. (3) Source: Dusenbury, M. (2017) Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick. Harper One. Excerpt: BBC Future. Accessed September 2020.

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Women's Health Collective Canada is a strategic alliance of Canada's leading women's health and hospital foundations.

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