Our vision is to eliminate inequalities in the health and wellbeing of girls, women, and people who were assigned female at birth.
We are an all-Wales research centre dedicated to women's health, funded by Health and Care Research Wales.
Aims
To improve women’s health and social care in Wales we will:
1. Develop an impactful, interdisciplinary, and methodologically rigorous research portfolio.
2. Create a collision space for academic-industry partnerships, to trigger innovation and commercialisation.
3. Facilitate long-lasting cycles of co-production and priority setting involving policy makers, NHS staff, public, and third sector.
4. Develop acceptable and feasible policy to integrate sex and gender into health and social care research in Wales.
5. Build a thriving network of experts to become future researchers, practitioners, policy makers, third sector and industry leaders in women’s health.
Research
Our research will focus on four thematic areas:
Health(y) transitions across lifespan: disease risk and moderators, including biological transitions, screening and prevention to improve women’s health and ensure healthy transitions.
Early onset and life-long conditions: management of health conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect women which are not preventable but can be managed.
Stigmatised and rare conditions: sex and gender effects in rare diseases and stigmatised conditions as these are poorly understood compared to other conditions.
Under-served women’s groups: intersectionality of social identities and how they moderate causes, manifestation and progression of disease, and access and response to healthcare.
People
Cardiff University
Swansea University
- Natalie Brown, Co-Lead Health(y) Transitions
- Ashra Khanom, PPIE & Health Inclusion Lead, & co-Lead Underserved Communities
- Cathy Thornton, Personal monitoring, bio-sampling, wearables
Bangor University
- Jane Noyes, Mixed, Realist and Qualitative Methods
- Carys Stringer, Health Economics
University of South Wales
- Deborah Lancastle, Symptom Reporting, FemTech
Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) partners
- Women’s Health Wales Coalition of over sixty charities, UK-wide umbrella organisations, Royal Colleges and patient representatives
- Debbie Shaffer, Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales
Partners
We are collaborating with colleagues across Wales to improve women’s health and social care across the country.
Next steps
Research that matters
Our research makes a difference to people’s lives as we work across disciplines to tackle major challenges facing society, the economy and our environment.
Postgraduate research
Our research degrees give the opportunity to investigate a specific topic in depth among field-leading researchers.
Our research impact
Our research case studies highlight some of the areas where we deliver positive research impact.