Why we are spotlighting brain and mental health innovations at this year’s awards

Women are almost twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with anxiety. Depression, PTSD, perinatal mental health conditions and the psychological weight of hormonal disorders affect hundreds of millions of women worldwide.

The gap between the scale of this problem and the quality of solutions available is vast.

The Femtech World Awards seeks to highlight the innovations working to close this gap.

The Brain and Mental Health Innovation Award sponsored by Women in Cloud is one of the most important categories in this year’s awards. 

This award recognises an outstanding innovation addressing brain and mental health challenges that uniquely or disproportionately impact women.

The winner will have demonstrated groundbreaking progress in areas such as mental wellbeing, neurological health, maternal mental health, cognitive care or stigma reduction.

This award honours those leading the way in advancing understanding, treatment, and support for women’s brain and mental health.

Women’s mental health sits at the intersection of every barrier that femtech was built to dismantle: the research gap, the funding gap, the dismissal of conditions that predominantly affect women, and the systemic failure to design healthcare around female experience.

Innovators working in this space are doing some of the most urgent work in women’s health today.

So if you have built something that improves the mental or emotional wellbeing of women, be sure to enter the awards.

The Femtech World Awards are free to enter and offer a unique opportunity to promote and celebrate your work across all our platforms.

Winners will receive extensive coverage, including an interview with a Femtech World journalist.

Find out more about the Femtech World Awards and enter for free here.