The Journal of the American Medical Association has launched JAMA+ Women’s Health, a curated platform designed to consolidate clinical research and commentary on women’s health across all medical specialties. The initiative aims to address documented research funding gaps and knowledge deficits in sex-based medical evidence.
JAMA is one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, published by the American Medical Association since 1883. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research, clinical studies, and medical commentary that influences healthcare practice globally. JAMA maintains the highest editorial standards and is considered a primary source for evidence-based medicine among healthcare professionals worldwide.
The new platform launches at jamanetwork.com/channels/womens-health and will feature original research, policy articles, and clinical guidance specifically focused on women’s health. The channel will include multimedia content and graphics to support busy clinicians seeking the latest evidence for patient care.
“The term women’s health gained popularity in response to the well-documented research funding gaps for health conditions that affect women exclusively, predominantly, or disproportionately,” the announcement stated. The platform addresses how women’s health has been narrowly defined as reproductive health, menopause, and breast cancer, when evidence shows sex-based differences exist across virtually every medical specialty.
Dr. Linda Brubaker, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA+ Women’s Health, explained the platform’s significance in an introductory video. “A lot of those studies used men as their participants, and they excluded women or women were very poorly represented in those studies. This limits the generalizability of information from those trials,” she said. “There’s been so much conversation about personalization of medicine, getting down to a single individual, but if we even made the big step forward to understand the differences in genetics and physiology that women have, we will improve health care outcomes.”
JAMA and its network journals already publish significant amounts of women’s health research, with most journals maintaining theme labels for women’s health content. JAMA Internal Medicine recently issued a specific call for papers on women’s health topics, indicating growing institutional commitment to this area.
The platform will amplify existing content while encouraging new research submissions focused on sex-based medical differences. The initiative recognizes that incorporating sex-based evidence into clinical care represents a form of personalized medicine that requires no sophisticated testing.
“Skillful clinicians incorporate the best available evidence in the care of their patients,” the editors noted, highlighting how rapidly changing medical landscapes require accessible, organized information sources for evidence-based practice.
The launch represents JAMA’s commitment to addressing knowledge gaps that have historically left clinicians without adequate sex-specific information for patient care. The centralized approach aims to make women’s health research more discoverable and actionable for healthcare providers across all specialties.
