Women’s Health Research Wales

We are an all-Wales research centre dedicated to women’s health, funded by Health and Care Research Wales.

Better Evidence,
Better Care,
Better Lives.

Welcome to Women’s Health Research Wales

Our vision is to eliminate inequalities in the health and wellbeing of girls, women, and people who were assigned female at birth.

Aims

To improve women’s health and social care in Wales we will:

1.
Develop an impactful, interdisciplinary, and methodologically rigorous research portfolio.
2.
Create a collision space for academic-industry partnerships, to trigger innovation and commercialisation.
3.
Facilitate long-lasting cycles of co-production and priority setting involving policy makers, NHS staff, public, and third sector.
4.
Develop acceptable and feasible policy to integrate sex and gender into health and social care research in Wales.
5.
Build a thriving network of experts to become future researchers, practitioners, policy makers, third sector and industry leaders in women’s health.
My symptoms weren’t a mystery –, they were ignored.

Better Evidence. Better Care. Better Lives.

Research

Our research will focus on four thematic areas:

Health(y) transitions across lifespan:

disease risk and moderators, including biological transitions, screening and prevention to improve women’s health and ensure healthy transitions.

 

Early onset and life-long conditions:

Management of health conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect women which are not preventable but can be managed.

Stigmatised and rare conditions:

Sex and gender effects in rare diseases and stigmatised conditions as these are poorly understood compared to other conditions.

Under-served women’s groups:

Intersectionality of social identities and how they moderate causes, manifestation and progression of disease, and access and response to healthcare.

Research that matters

Our research makes a difference to people’s lives as we work across disciplines to tackle major challenges facing society, the economy and our environment.

Postgraduate research

Our research degrees give the opportunity to investigate a specific topic in depth among field-leading researchers.

Our research impact

Our research case studies highlight some of the areas where we deliver positive research impact.

WHRW Team

Sarah Knott
Centre Manager
Professor Jacky Boivin
Centre Director
Hannah Robertson
Communications Officer
Laura Baglow
Administrator

Topic Leads

Dr Kelly Buckley
Early onset and life-long conditions co-lead, Cardiff University

Cardiff University

Dr Sofia Gameiro
Underserved communities co-lead

Cardiff University

Dr Robyn Jackowich
Rare & stigmatised conditions co-lead

Cardiff University

Dr Alison Cooper
Health(y) transitions across lifespan co-lead

Cardiff University

Dr Denitza Williams
Early onset and life-long conditions co-lead

Cardiff University

Dr Natalie Brown
Health(y) transitions across lifespan co-lead

Swansea University

Dr Ashra Khanom
Patient Involvement co-lead and Undeserved communities co-lead

Swansea University

Debbie Shaffer
Patient Involvement co-lead

Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales

Methodologists

Dr Sue Channon
Methodologists

Cardiff University

Dr Rebecca Cannings-John
Methodologist

Cardiff University

Dr Nervo Verdezoto Dias
Methodologist

Cardiff University

Professor Jane Noyes
Methodologist

Bangor University

Professor Cathy Thornton
Methodologist

Swansea University

Professor Julia Sanders
Methodologist

Cardiff University

Professor Deborah Lancastle
Methodologist

University of South Wales

Dr Carys Stringer
Methodologist

Bangor University

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