Speaker: Kelly McMullon
Topic: Filling The Gender Data Gap - Navigating Privacy, Education & Innovation
Femtech Leaders Virtual conference is positioned to educate and connect executives from the growing femtech industry with the investors, strategic partners, adopters and advisors needed to help grow their businesses.
Special International Labor, Employment and Data Protection counsel, Kelly McMullon moderated a panel titled "Filling The Gender Data Gap - Navigating Privacy, Education & Innovation." The panel included Jill Waldner, VP Corporate Strategy and Alliances at Evidation, Ridhi Tariyal, CEO & Co-Founder of NextGen Jane and Eric Dy, Founder and CEO of Bloomlife.
Prior to 1994 and the NIH mandated inclusion of women in clinical trials there were huge missing chunks of research and understanding into women’s health data. Women were simply left out due to concerns that their hormone cycles would bring unwanted complications to trials and the unfounded belief it made no difference if you were treating a man or a woman. Women account for 49.5% of the population, but with significantly less clinical information to develop solutions - closing the data gaps will lead to women being healthier and lower medical costs. Femtech innovators creating the women's healthcare products and those collecting women's health data in trials discuss the challenges in collection and managing data, and the opportunity of this huge untapped and critically important resource.