Family benefits platform Cleo has recently released the results of a national survey of 1,5000 parents and published “Seven insights on investing in working families now and moving forward”. The future of work is here. It’s NOW. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought all workers—in particular parents—to a tipping point and accelerated trends that may have otherwise been years, if not decades away…
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Special Programme HRP and the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in partnership with the British Medical Journal (BMJ), have today released a special series of papers on “Women’s Health and Gender Inequalities.” The series celebrates and interrogates collective progress towards making the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on Women a reality…
Radicle Science and Rae Wellness have recently announced a new CBD study focused exclusively on CBD and Women’s Health. The Rae Wellness study on CBD and Women’s Health is one of the first and largest randomized, controlled human studies to evaluate the effects of commercially available non-prescription CBD products. To our knowledge, it represents the first CBD study to focus exclusively on women’s health…
The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) has recently released the results from its 2020 KFF Women’s Health Survey. Women’s access to health care depends greatly on the availability of high-quality providers in their communities as well as their own knowledge about maintaining their health through routine checkups, screenings, and provider counseling. Social determinants of health, structural racism, and experiences with health care providers shape health…
All Raise was initially born our of a grassroots movement in 2017 to arm women with access guidance and support to advance their professional growth. Today the organization is on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous, equitable future. Yesterday All Raise published its latest Annual Report and truly 2020 wasn’t a great…
Rock Health has recently released their Q1 2021 digital health funding report. With $6.7B in US digital health funding Q1 has been the the most-funded quarter to date. Ten years ago, we at Rock Health published our first report on digital health venture investment, highlighting an annual haul of $1.1B from investors into the emerging sector. In each of the last two weeks of…
Hologic, a global leader in women’s health, has recently announced a collaboration with leading analytics and consulting firm Gallup on the creation of the Hologic Global Women’s Health Index, the largest and most comprehensive assessment of women’s health in the world. This multi-year initiative is the first survey to track critical markers of women’s health and safety by country over time. It…
Rock Health and the Stanford Center for Digital Health have recently shared the findings from their sixth annual Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey. Amidst a national pandemic and the ensuing stay-at-home orders, consumer adoption rates grew significantly from 2019 to 2020—10+ percentage point increases—across live video telemedicine, wearable ownership, and digital health metric tracking. The 2020 survey data suggest that consumers more…
