Save the Date: Women’s Health Conference 2026

Overview

The global Women’s Health Conference was launched in 2023 by the Global Centre for Asian Women’s Health (GloW) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Following the success of the 2023 and 2024 conferences in Singapore and the 2025 meeting in Paris, the Women’s Health Conference 2026 will be held on September 30–October 2, 2026, in Boston. Co-organized by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and GloW, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, in partnership with Stanford University and Université Paris Cité, the conference will highlight cutting-edge advances reshaping women’s health across the life course.

Despite increasing global attention, women’s health remains under-researched and underfunded across many critical domains. Women experience unique biological transitions—from puberty and pregnancy to menopause and aging—that shape lifelong health and well-being. This conference will convene leading scientists, clinicians, innovators, and policymakers to accelerate solutions that improve health outcomes for women worldwide.

The two-day scientific program will showcase breakthroughs in precision nutrition and lifestyle medicine, advances in fertility and pregnancy research, new approaches to mental health and disease prevention, healthy aging and cognition, and the expanding role of AI and femtech in transforming diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. The program will feature plenary lectures, thematic panel discussions, poster sessions, and lightning talks by junior investigators, along with a panel of international organizations and foundations focused on sustaining global investment in women’s health research.

The two-day program will be followed by a half-day symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Nurses’ Health Study — the largest and longest-running study of women’s health, established in 1976.