S3E8: Why Women's Health Needs a Strategy with Jennifer Gillivan
Update: 2025-11-26
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Jennifer Gillivan, President and CEO of the IWK Foundation, joins us on this episode to discuss why Canada needs a national women’s health strategy and how systemic bias in science, medicine, and policy leaves women behind. She explains how decades of underfunding and male-default research have shaped today’s “illness-care” system, what she’s hearing from thousands of women across Atlantic Canada, and why her mantra is to educate, advocate, and mobilize to equalize. Gillivan also talks about the power of philanthropy and femtech to fuel a global women’s health movement and build a fairer future for all women. Host: Dr. Liisa Galea
Editor: Dr. Andrew McGovern
Producer: Dr. Andrew McGovern
Music by Dr. Andrew McGovern
New episodes of Women’s Health Interrupted will be available every
Wednesday. Please rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast wherever
you find your podcasts. Learn more about the Women's Health Research
Cluster on their website: https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/
Editor: Dr. Andrew McGovern
Producer: Dr. Andrew McGovern
Music by Dr. Andrew McGovern
New episodes of Women’s Health Interrupted will be available every
Wednesday. Please rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast wherever
you find your podcasts. Learn more about the Women's Health Research
Cluster on their website: https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/
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