Unwell Women - Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World - a book by scholar Elinor Cleghorn - is an exposé of how women's health has been largely misunderstood ever since antiquity, ie., dating back to the times of Hippocrates.
Global Women's Health Innovation Conference is a high impact conference and showcase of the challenges and opportunities in advancing women’s health and the role of technology and innovation to improve healthcare and make healthcare equity a reality.
The launch edition of Global Women’s Health Innovation Conference 2022 concluded in Mumbai on December 12 - 13, 2022. Industry leaders, renowned healthcare evangelists, leading medical practitioners, healthtech/femtech/medtech innovators and disruptors, converged together over two days of insightful, and highly focused sessions and topics that were carefully selected in response to the needs of the industry.
GWHIC is India's first dedicated event to focus on digital innovations in Healthcare, the emerging future of Femtech, and how to accelerate innovation and investment in femtech.
During the event, industry experts, speakers and panelists shared their insights and experiences in solutions, services and innovation across the spectrum of Reproductive Health, Mental Health, Maternal Health, General Healthcare and Wellness.
Relevant Topics, Great line-up of Speakers, Future-focus discussions, sharing of success stories, innovations and pitfalls to avoid.
Share your voice and discuss key issues that matter the most for the industry, your business or mission.
Building a community and bringing them together for meetups, networking, discussions to keep the momentum high and bring about changes.
Find your next idea collaborators, partners and peers; all in one place. Meet like minded people, network and build new connections.
Relevant Topics, Great line-up of Speakers, Future-focus discussions, sharing of success stories, innovations and pitfalls to avoid.
It’s all in the connections! Meet key stakeholders, movers and shakers, innovators and disruptors and industry professionals.
Building a community and bringing them together for meetups, networking, discussions to keep the momentum high and bring about changes.
Events create memorable experiences. Meet like-minded people and old connects. Enjoy face-to-face interactions, they are priceless!
GWHIC 2022 welcomed prominent industry leaders from the healthcare industry, movers and shakers, innovators and disruptors from the Femtech/Healthtech industry to share their valuable insights, best practice and experiences.
Interactive sessions, knowledge exchange and a great mix of attendees from the Healthcare industry came together on a common and dedicated platform that put the spotlight on women's health and highlighted the role of technology and innovation in improving healthcare and making healthcare equity a reality.
Visionary Speakers
Days
Honorary Distinguished Professor and Goodwill Ambassador, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
Prof. K. Srinath Reddy is an Honorary Distinguished Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India. He is the past President of, the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
He was appointed as the First Bernard Lown Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in (2009-13) and presently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard (2014-2023). He is also an Adjunct Professor of the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Adjunct Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Associated Faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.He was appointed as the First Bernard Lown Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in (2009-13) and presently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard (2014-2023). He is also an Adjunct Professor of the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Adjunct Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Associated Faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
PHFI is engaged in capacity building in Public Health in India through education, training, research, policy development, health communication and advocacy. In March 2017, he was appointed as Advisor on Health to the Government of Odisha, with the rank of a Cabinet Minister. He is also an Advisor on Health to Government of Andhra Pradesh, with Cabinet Rank from March 2020.
He served as physician to two Prime Ministers of India. Professor Reddy is a member of the Government of India Technical Taskforce for Covid-19. He is also an Advisor to the Governments of Punjab and Andhra Pradesh.
His contributions to public health have been recognized through several awards and include the prestigious Padma Bhushan (Presidential Honour, India, 2005), WHO Director General’s Award for Outstanding Global Leadership in Tobacco Control (World Health Assembly, 2003, amongst others.
Founder, CEO and CTO NIRAMAI Health Analytix
Dr. Geetha Manjunath is the Founder, CEO and CTO of NIRAMAI Health Analytix, who has led the company to develop a breakthrough solution for detecting early stage breast cancer using Artificial Intelligence.
Through this work, Niramai has become the first Indian company to obtain medical device regulatory clearances of both US FDA and CE Mark for Europe for women health radiology product. This device which uses AI on medical images has put Niramai and India on the Top 100 AI Startups in the world.
Geetha holds a PhD from The Indian Institute of Science in Computer Science and management education from Kellogg's Chicago. She has proposed and led multiple AI projects at Xerox Research and Hewlett Packard India. Before starting NIRAMAI, Geetha was a Lab Director for Data Analytics Research at Xerox India.
Geetha has received many international and national recognition for her innovations and entrepreneurial work, including CSI Gold Medal, BIRAC WinER Award 2018 and is also on the Forbes List of Top 20 Self-Made Women 2020.
She was recently awarded the Accenture Vahini Innovator of the Year Award from Economic Times and Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 by BioSpectrum India. Geetha is also an inventor of 18 US patents and more pending grant.
Partner, Senior Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Frost & Sullivan
Reenita Das is a healthcare futurist and strategist, passionate about changing the healthcare industry. She got voted the top 100 women in Femtech and Healthtech and the top 50 Healthcare strategists to follow in 2021.
She has lived and worked in over 10 countries in the world, focusing on healthcare issues and working with public and private sector to implement growth change strategies.
Das currently serves as Partner and Senior Vice President and is the first woman Partner at Frost & Sullivan. In addition, she is the Founder of GLOW (Growth and Innovation of Women) program. She is also on the Board of a non profit “High Tech High Heels” Silicon Valley that focuses on increasing gender diversity for STEM. She is also part of the AdvisoryBoard in Arab Health.
In her current role, Das manages a global business and works largely with clients on futuristic scenarios and forecasts in understanding how healthcare will operate 20 years from today. She is focused heavily on rethinking consumer business models as healthcare makes a transition to health and identifying opportunities with companies outside of healthcare to bring solutions to the healthcare sector.
She is also focusing heavily on showcasing “Femtech” and the growth opportunities from this new sector which includes advising femtech companies on the right strategies and commercial business models to success.
Leading Gynaecologist, Head of Bloom IVF
Dr Hrishikesh D Pai is India’s leading gynecologists and pioneer in ART. In 1990, Dr Pai trained in IVF by doing Clinical Fellowship in Reproductive Biology and Embryology at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne Australia. He did his Masters in Science at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk USA. He is the Medical Director of Bloom IVF.
He has won 45+ awards including Best Doctor Award by the National Indian Medical Association, Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the Indian Society for Study in Reproduction and Lifetime Achievement Award by Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction in 2020. Dr. Pai received the prestigious Fellowship Endeum FRCOG which was bestowed by the Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynecology London UK in June 2019 in London.
At present, Dr Pai is the President Elect FOGSI 2022-23, Federation of Obstetric & Gynaecological Societies of India. In addition to his many awards and recognitions, Dr.Pai’s work has been extensively written about in the print and electronic media. Throughout his public interactions and media appearances, Dr Pai has dwelt on various issues pertaining to the promotion of women’s health in India.
Chief Executive Officer OCON Healthcare / World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer 2022
Keren Leshem, OCON’s CEO is a seasoned executive with over 20 year's experience in the medical device & pharmaceutical industries specializing in the management of innovative start-ups, strategy, commercialization, BD, and financing.
She was recently dubbed as one of the three women shaping the future of women’s health by Forbes Magazine.
OCON Healthcare, the female-led company that is re-inventing women's health, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum's "Technology Pioneers". OCON Healthcare develops innovative medical solutions that are inspired by women's bodies and anatomy-fitting, to allow safer and specific therapeutic choices and to better the lives of women globally.
Prior to leading OCON Healthcare, Ms. Leshem held various global CEO, Board, and Management positions within the pharmaceutical and medical industries both in Israel and abroad.
Ms. Leshem currently sits on FemTech Lab’s admissions and advisory Board as well as LSX’s Advisory Board and is a Mentor thru the 8400 Healthtech Network.
Co-founder & CEO - Elda Health
Swathi Kulkarni is the Co-Founder and CEO of Elda Health, a full-stack platform enabling women to understand their health issues, identify precautionary measures, gain access to meaningful diagnoses, and above all prioritize their own health.
Over the course of her career spanning more than 18 years, Swathi has built several businesses such as Nua and Inksedge from scratch and also played strategic roles in companies such as Intel, Komli, etc. She is passionate about building start-ups and scaling them by using cutting-edge tech and consumer insights. She is adept at identifying challenge areas and deploying structured approaches to handle the chaos.
A serial entrepreneur from the Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad and BITS Pilani, Swathi is a leading #femtech leader, innovator, and supporter of the health care industry in a huge way. Her commitment to healthcare equality and passion makes her a pioneer healthcare women leader in India.
As the Global Women's Health Innovation Conference Advisory Board member, Swathi is guiding the leadership team to build a truly remarkable and impactful conference.
Who Will Attend
Our delegates, guests and community are serving the spectrum of women’s health – hormonal, reproductive, physical, mental and emotional.
Women’s Health Innovators, Providers and Angel Investors
Medical and Healthcare
Government and Academia
Users and Patient Advocacy
Spread across both days of the conference; the exhibition and display arena will bring the major players, innovators, service and solution providers across the spectrum of women’s health
The exhibition will also enhance visibility for startups and social enterprises making an impact in the sector of women’s health
A creative and unique display of youth, media and art concepts and voices in the field of healthcare equity and quality of care
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Unwell Women - Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World - a book by scholar Elinor Cleghorn - is an exposé of how women's health has been largely misunderstood ever since antiquity, ie., dating back to the times of Hippocrates.
The two-day Global Women’s Health Innovation Conference 2022 concluded on a high note. Women’s healthcare stakeholders including experts, medical practitioners, FEMTECH and digital health innovators, and social development organisations joined the conference which focused on finding strategies and learnings for a stronger industry and better health outcomes.
Ocon Healthcare develops innovative medical solutions that are inspired by women's bodies and anatomy-fitting, to allow safer and specific therapeutic choices and to better the lives of women globally. OCON Healthcare is Awarded as Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum for creating the world's first and only three-dimensional (3D) spherical intrauterine drug-delivery platform technology.
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