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Girls in Well being Care Management president Samyukta Singh ’24 (center), with keynote audio system Dr. Onyinye Balogun and Eve McDavid, co-founders of Mission-Pushed Tech.
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The Girls+ in Well being Care Management Symposium organized by college students within the Sloan Program in Health Administration on the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks College of Public Coverage featured a various panel of girls for his or her speaker collection.
This 12 months’s theme, “Main the Approach in Girls’s Well being,” aimed to carry collectively feminine entrepreneurs devoted to advancing girls’s well being and enhancing the lives of girls by their work.
Keynote audio system have been Dr. Onyinye Balogun and Eve McDavid, co-founders of Mission-Pushed Tech, a girls’s well being enterprise in collaboration with Weill Cornell Drugs. Mission-Pushed Tech is devoted to remodeling gynecologic most cancers care with trendy know-how. The keynote detailed how Balogun and McDavid harnessed the facility of entrepreneurship to revolutionize girls’s well being care, from addressing cervical most cancers care to holistic well-being.
Panelists included Julie Eagle ’89, a well being care entrepreneur and investor; Mia Farnham, principal at Steelsky Ventures; Andrea Ippilito ’06, MEng ’07, founder and CEO of SimpliFed; and Armita Jamshidi ’25, Cornell eLab participant and founding father of Aunt Flo’s Kitchen. Discussions ranged from infrastructure to help working girls, enterprise capital funding for ladies’s well being startups, and an interesting enterprise case research on a enterprise targeted on serving to girls protect their fertility.
The occasion was the ninth annual symposium organized by the Women+ in Health Care Leadership membership.
“Innovation and entrepreneurship in girls’s well being care have usually been dismissed as area of interest endeavors,” stated membership president Samyukta Singh MHA ‘24. “I wished our attendees to appreciate how a lot market alternative and worth creation exists in girls’s well being by incorporating an investor from a girls’s well being enterprise capital agency into our line-up.”
Singh provides, “It’s important for folks to appreciate that higher outcomes in girls’s well being not solely profit girls but additionally have optimistic ripple results on kids, households, and communities. Guaranteeing higher girls’s well being contributes to creating stronger and more healthy societies. So it’s a misnomer to dismiss girls’s well being for less than benefiting 50% of the inhabitants.”
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