Women's Health Innovation Forum
Philadelphia helped pioneer women's medicine, opening the world's first medical school for women in 1850. Today, maternal and reproductive health is one of the fastest-growing areas in life sciences, and Philadelphia has the research, clinical expertise, and talent to lead the field. This symposium brings those strengths together to turn collaboration into action
This half-day symposium at uCity Square convenes researchers, clinicians, advocates, investors, and innovators advancing maternal and reproductive health. Through fireside conversations and expert-led working sessions, participants will explore challenges and opportunities across pregnancy, postpartum care, birth equity, diagnostics, and women's health technologies while building meaningful connections and collaborations.
Together, we'll tackle questions like:
How do we build a continuous, coordinated care model from pregnancy through postpartum so outcomes are driven by biology, not zip code?
Where do Philadelphia's institutions, clinicians, and companies have the most to gain by working together, and what would it take to start?
How can the region's most promising maternal and reproductive health innovations move more quickly from research into practice?
Who needs to be at the table, and what could be accomplished if the ecosystem planned and acted as one?
By the end of the day, participants leave with more than ideas. They leave with named next steps, new collaborators, and a shared plan for making Philadelphia a leader in the field it helped create.