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Women's Health Network
The Women’s Health Network is a global collaborative convened by the Milken Institute to accelerate progress in women’s health. It facilitates collective action among leaders, mobilizes capital, and advances initiatives that turn promising solutions into real-world impact for women.
Health Portfolios
Our work encompasses four portfolios. We also work collectively to address challenges that require cross-cutting solutions through signature initiatives such as the Employer Action Exchange, international work, and the Women's Health Network.
Featured Thought Leadership
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Employer Strategies for Human-Centered AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of eight emerging and escalating risks to both employee and organizational health and performance that employers face, as identified through a landscape analysis of more than 245 sources from 2011 to 2025...Read Report
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Meet the LeadersLink 2026-2027 Cohort
The 2026–2027 FasterCures’ LeadersLink program cohort has been carefully selected from a highly competitive pool of candidates. We chose nine exceptional individuals to participate in this year’s program. Through a capstone project...Read Article -
Advancing Mental Health Worldwide: Five Core Elements for Effective Strategies
More than one billion people worldwide live with a mental health condition (MHC). Despite the significant downstream economic, societal, and health challenges associated with MHCs, inconsistent funding, patchwork policies, and limited...Read Report
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Stories from the Field: Susan DeMarois
What inspired the California Department of Aging to promote Flipping the Script on Aging as a public health campaign? What observations, gaps, and/or opportunities influenced this direction? We’ve come to recognize that ageism is a public...Read Article -
Framing the Value of Patient Engagement for Medtech Product Developers
This report aims to support more robust patient engagement (PE) by device, diagnostic, and digital health—i.e., medtech—product developers.Read Report -
Milken Institute’s 2026 Global Conference Convenes Changemakers in Los Angeles, May 3–6
At a defining moment for international stability, leaders will focus on solutions through open dialogue and cross-sector collaboration.Read ArticleImage
Chad Clinton
Director, Media RelationsChad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events. -
Expanding Access to Clinical Trials: Insights from FasterCures’ ENRICH-CT Coalition
In FasterCures’ extensive work to capture lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that the US lacked sufficient infrastructure near communities to run trials efficiently or to engage potential participants in the places...Read ArticleImage
Erin Cieslewski
Senior Associate, FasterCuresErin Cieslewski is a senior associate at FasterCures within the Milken Institute, where she contributes to core programmatic projects with a focus on the clinical trials portfolio. -
Access Point: Trends in Clinical Trials Transformation #3
FasterCures’ Access Point: Trends in Clinical Trials Transformation is a quarterly horizon scan examining how emerging trends, organizations, and initiatives are transforming clinical trial access and efficiency.Read Report -
The Power of Real-World Insights in a Modern Clinical Research Enterprise
Real-world insights (RWI) are transforming clinical research decision-making by integrating health care, consumer, behavioral, and digital data to provide a more complete and continuous view of patients' lives.Read Report
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Employers Investing in Women: Advancing Business, Employees, and Communities
Women represent 47 percent of the US workforce and contribute 37 percent to the global gross domestic product, yet data show that women’s health continues to face significant underinvestment across many disease conditions that affect women...Read Report
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Integrating Women’s Health: From Fragmented Systems to Connected Care
The Milken Institute Women’s Health Network bridges gaps in innovation and health care in areas that impact women exclusively, differentially, or disproportionately.Read ArticleImage
Jenica Patterson, PhD
Senior Director, Women’s Health Network, Milken Institute HealthJenica Patterson, PhD, is the senior director of the Women’s Health Network within the Health pillar at the Milken Institute, where she leads a global initiative to accelerate innovation, investment, and cross-sector collaboration in women’s health. In this role, Patterson brings together leaders across science, industry, philanthropy, and finance to advance emerging solutions and strengthen the ecosystem needed to bring women’s health innovations to market and scale.
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