Events

By Femi Adetoro, marketing manager, Women’s Health Week Women’s Health Week Europe 2025 brought 400 investors, innovators, corporates, clinicians, and policymakers together at the beautiful Barbican Centre in London for three days of big thinking and real partnership-building. This was my first Women’s Health Week, and over a month later, the conversations are still shaping [...]

After two years of uniting the global women’s health ecosystem to drive impact and investment, Women’s Health Week USA has announced the central theme for its 2026 summit: Women’s Health 2.0 — The Era of Scale. Returning to New York on May 13–14, 2026, the event signals a pivotal moment for the sector. Innovators are [...]

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with CardMedic across the organisation, enabling its 6,300-strong workforce to communicate more clearly and confidently with patients who face language or communication barriers. CardMedic is a digital healthcare communication platform that allows staff and patients to communicate safely and effectively irrespective of language barriers, cognitive impairment or literacy. [...]

Nineteen NCAA women’s basketball coaches have joined forces to raise awareness about heart disease, which kills more than 440,000 US women each year. The Hearts on the Court Collective, led by Louisiana State University women’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey, will launch social media campaigns throughout the season to promote heart-healthy habits. Heart [...]

The flagship women’s health summit brought together over 400 visionary founders, funders and innovators, with a shared mission of transforming women's health worldwide. This year’s Women’s Health Week, which took place at the Barbican, London from 14-17 October, showcased a sector once considered by funders to be too much of a ‘niche’, meeting a crucial [...]

Sara Davies, acclaimed TV broadcaster and trailblazing entrepreneur, will be joining Women’s Health Week Europe as a guest speaker to open the main event at Women’s Health Week Europe this October. The announcement marks a significant moment for women’s health innovation, as one of the UK’s most recognisable investors steps onto the WHW stage to spotlight the [...]

Women's Health Week Europe is adding a dedicated Founders' Day on Tuesday, 15th October 2025 at the Barbican Centre, London – completely FREE with conference tickets. This comprehensive business day features interactive workshops, roundtable discussions, and pre-arranged investor meetings, designed specifically for growth-stage innovators and investors in women's health. From idea to exit, it's a [...]

At WUKA, we strongly believe that no girl should have to skip sports because of her period. Our Tackle Anything campaign isn’t about making headlines with national level sports partnerships, but rather supporting thousands of girls in grassroots sports. Girls in Sports Many girls are simply taught about the menstrual cycle from a biological perspective [...]

As we all know too well, for decades, women’s health has been an overlooked corner of medicine. Research has often excluded women, leading to gaps in understanding, and funding has lagged behind other areas of healthcare. Yet in recent years, a quiet revolution has been taking shape. Startups, clinicians, and investors have begun to focus [...]

Women’s Health Week has partnered with global self-care leader Opella to launch the Opella Innovation Challenge—a private, one-day pitch event designed to uncover the next generation of science-backed consumer innovations. Taking place during Women’s Health Week Europe 2025 in London, the Challenge offers selected founders 30 minutes of private access to Opella’s global leadership team—receiving [...]