Thursday, September 18 · 12:30 – 2:00pm
Join NCWGB and guests as we examine the progress of the Women’s Health Strategy for England, and how optimising women’s health has a positive impact on all of society.
Recent studies show a reduction in women’s life expectancy of living with good health; women face a health lottery of services depending on where they live; plus chronic disadvantage still exists for women from BME communities. The challenges of reduced funding, the lack of women health hubs and many clinical trials focussing on male subjects, have led to a failure to address women’s needs. What progress is being made to ensure a better future on these issues?
We are delighted to welcome back our keynote speaker, Professor Dame Lesley Regan, Women’s Health Ambassador for England, Honorary Secretary of FIGO and Chair of the charity Wellbeing of Women. She will be accompanied by distinguished guests including Sadia Mir, Equity and Diversity Advocate with lived experience of challenging the systems.
BIOGRAPHIES:
Dame Lesley Regan
Professor Dame Lesley Regan is the first Women’s Health Ambassador for England, Honorary Secretary of FIGO and Chair of the charity Wellbeing of Women. She is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College London and Consultant at St Mary’s Hospital in London. She was the 30th President of RCOG between 2016-2019. During her tenure as PRCOG she co-chaired the National Women’s Health Taskforce and authored “Better for Women”, an RCOG report which promotes a life-course approach to the delivery of women’s health services. Having graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London in 1980, Professor Regan pursued her training at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, where she first became enthused by clinical and laboratory research, completing her MD on miscarriage. She went on to set up the world’s largest recurrent miscarriage clinic at St Mary’s Hospital in London.