Shyam Bishan
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first heard Jan 2026
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There are diseases that are not gender specific, but then there are diseases which are very gender specific, you know, whether it's endometriosis, it's cancer of breast, it's ovarian cancer.
You have menstrual related diseases and some others that are very specific to women or that mostly affect women and less for men.
So there are some diseases that are specific to women that we are looking at.
So the investors are mainly overlooking cardiovascular diseases for women, osteoporosis, menstrual-related, menopause-related diseases, as well as Alzheimer's in women.
Most of the funding that we have right now that flows into cancer for women, then maternal health, the current investment is mainly focused on the areas I just mentioned.
Yes.
So only 6% of private health care investment goes into women's health, despite women accounting for nearly half of the world's population.
So this is a very small amount of funding that goes into women's health R&D.
Out of that 6% of funding that goes into R&D, 90% of that funding goes into the areas I mentioned, women's cancer, reproductive health and maternal health.
All other high burden, high prevalence conditions that impact women are not well funded.
So this could make a huge difference.
You know, we had just looked at the four areas.
If we focus on cardiovascular diseases, more women die from heart attack, from cardiovascular diseases than men.
If we focus on that, if we focus on osteoporosis, menopause and Alzheimer's, I think we could make a very big difference in women's health in trying to fill the gap for women's health.
And we have also done some analysis which shows that this can unlock more than $100 billion in market value.
So basically through our work, through Global Alliance for Women's Health work, this is an alliance that World Economic Forum launched with Gates Foundation.
We are showing the economic impact of looking into some of these diseases.
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