Women's health at a junction in policy and practice

There is a growing interest in the health of women in policy and practice, but insufficient evidence and action to address the nature and scale of unmet need. Key challenges related to this include fragmented services, pronounced inequalities and regulatory blind-spots. In the future there is a need for better demand signalling, more appropriate funding mechanisms, better coordinated collaboration and more effective signposting and access to evidence.

There are evidence gaps that need to be plugged to support further progress in women's health. These apply to both the biology underpinning women's health and to the implementation of science and evidence to inform health services and health innovation policy. We propose ideas to inform a future research agenda to address these to progress the area of women's health.