A day of bold conversations on the future of women’s health.

From the latest data behind women’s health challenges and opportunities to the progress being made to close the gap in research, healthcare, policy, and business.

Calamigos Ranch

Oct.15.26

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  • "Women are hungry for a healthcare system that answers our questions, meets our needs, understands our pain and offers solutions. This Summit was a meaningful step forward and the leadership of WME and its clients are critical in helping close the gaps in women’s health through philanthropy, advocacy and investment."

    Hannah Linkenhoker, WME Senior Policy and Political Advisor

  • “This Summit was inspired in part by WME clients like Emmy Rossum, Halle Berry, Katie Couric, Lupita Nyong'o, and Mandy Moore, for whom this work is deeply personal. WME has partnered with our clients to expose how pervasive these gaps are, create meaningful opportunities to drive change, and mobilize our WME community to ensure women's health and women's pain finally get the attention they deserve.”

    Jeanell English, WME Head of Community and Impact

  • “I know what it feels like to go on a health journey with more questions than answers. I have had my own journey with fertility. I know that we need to close these gaps once and for all."

    Mandy Moore, WME Client and Women’s Health Advocate

  • “As I look forward, am I optimistic? Yes, I am. The business case is crystal clear. Some of you probably know the figure of trillions of dollars that account just for the increased economic participation by women that occurs when the women's health gap is closed."

    Lucy Pérez, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company and Global Leader of McKinsey Women’s Health Institute

  • "There are huge blind spots in who we're studying, in what experiences we're elevating, and part of that has to do with the fact that you don't answer questions you don't see. When 80% of our tenured neuroscience faculty are male, menopause, or pregnancy, or preeclampsia, these are things that just don't rise to the surface. … We need women in the highest positions of power."

    Dr. Emily Jacobs, Professor of Neuroscience at UC Santa Barbara and Director of the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative

  • "None of us does this alone. But when you’ve got three states that move, that is the blueprint for others to follow, and hopefully for the federal government to finally take some real meaningful action in this space too."

    Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer

  • "First and foremost, access. You can't talk about good healthcare if people can't access it. … We need to build the workforce that can do the studies and the research and the support that we need for this patient population. And the final thing is the research. We need to know where to go. … We were going there in the right direction using federal support. We'll have to probably go it alone for the next couple of years, but I don't believe California is going to go backwards."

    California Gubernatorial Candidate Xavier Becerra

  • "How do we create real systemic change? We're seeing that our systems and our institutions are breaking down, and they're not serving us. That's why we have vigilantes on the loose in our show, [Furious], but we don't want that to be the case. We want there to be things in place that will make victims feel heard and honored and believed, and to not have that and their victimhood be then the logline that is next to their profession for the rest of their life."

    Emmy Rossum, WME Client

  • Speakers

    Katie Schubert, President and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research; Roslyn Daniels, Founder and CEO of Black Health Matters; Dr. Marlena Fejzo, Clinical Professor of Epidemiology at USC

    Moderator

    Mandy Moore, WME Client and Women’s Health Advocate

  • Speakers

    Lucy Pérez, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company and Global Leader at McKinsey Health Institute

  • Speakers

    Katy Brodsky Falco, Founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Women’s Health; Dr. Tara Shirazian, Founder and Director of the Center for Fibroid Care at NYU Langone Grossman School of Medicine

    Moderator

    Dakota Ortiz, WME VP Client Impact

  • Speaker

    Dr. Emily Jacobs, Professor of Neuroscience at UC Santa Barbara and Director of the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative

  • Speakers

    Carine Carmy, Co-founder and CEO of Origin; Priyanka Jain, Co-founder and CEO of Evvy; Lauren Makler, Co-founder and CEO of Cofertility; Kevin Eisenfrats, Co-founder and CEO of Contraline

    Moderator

    Colleen Foster, General Parter at Amboy Street Ventures

  • Speakers

    Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer; Dr. Pauline Maki, Director of UIC’s CHARM Center, California Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan

    Moderator

    Hannah Linkenhoker, WME Senior Policy and Political Advisor

  • Speakers

    Emmy Rossum, WME Client; Megan Cutter, Chief of Victim Services at RAINN

  • Speakers

    Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights; Alice Ollstein, Politico Senior Healthcare Reporter; Carri Twigg, Founder and CEO of American Story

    Moderator

    Phoebe Gates, Entrepreneur and Reproductive Freedom Champion

  • Speaker

    Congresswomen Lauren Underwood, Co-chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus

    Moderator

    Jeanell English, WME Head of Community and Impact

  • Speaker

    Xavier Becerra, Former US Secretary of Human and Health Services and California Gubernatorial Nominee

    Moderator

    Hannah Linkenhoker, WME Senior Policy and Political Advisor

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Our Why

Women’s health has been underfunded, under-researched, and overlooked for decades.

WME created this Summit to highlight critical gaps in research, healthcare, and policy, and discuss opportunities to create meaningful change.

A note from Hannah Linkenhoker, WME Senior Policy and Political Advisor

Our Commitment

We hope to leave you inspired, empowered, and connected with opportunities to close the women’s health gap.

WME and the Foundation for Women’s Health have launched the WME x Foundation for Women’s Health Catalytic Research Fund to catalyze engagement from our community and fund gaps in women’s health research.

Give to the Fund