Who Should be Brought Into the Conversation Around Women’s Health?

Women’s health took the main stage at the HLTH Conference in Las Vegas on Monday.

During a panel discussion, moderator Jodi Neuhauser, founder and CEO of 51&, detailed how the women’s healthcare system is broken. For example, there is only one menopause provider for every 3,000 women. Less than half of counties in the U.S. have an OBGYN. Women’s healthcare is also reimbursed less than men’s healthcare.

To the panel, Neuhauser proposed this question: Who is not working in women’s health today that should be?

One panelist pointed to employers, arguing that they should expand women’s health benefits, such as midwifery care.

“We’ve seen it with fertility, IVF. We’ve seen these benefits expanding,” said Elaine Welteroth, founder of birthFUND, which advocates and invests in midwifery care.