The Global Centre for Asian Women’s Health (GloW) at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has assumed stewardship of the Women’s Health Impact Tracking (WHIT) platform, a globally accessible data platform designed to measure progress in closing the women’s health gap across conditions and countries.
Women continue to experience significant disparities in health outcomes due to differences in disease burden, access to care, effectiveness of interventions, and under-investment in research. WHIT was created to address these gaps by consolidating and translating complex datasets into clear, comparable, and actionable insights.
Initiated by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the McKinsey Health Institute, WHIT complements major global resources such as the Global Burden of Disease and WHO mortality datasets, while uniquely highlighting conditions that disproportionately or exclusively affect women. It enables stakeholders to identify where needs are greatest and where improvements in care delivery, clinical effectiveness, or data quality are most urgently required.
As steward of the platform, GloW will focus on:
- Broadening condition and country coverage
- Enhancing data quality and comparability
- Strengthening engagement from low- and middle-income regions
- Expanding use cases for policymakers, clinicians, researchers, and funders
“Outstanding attentions have been drawn to women’s health in the past two years. Yet, there are major data gaps on women’s health. Improving women’s health effectively and efficiently requires high-quality data on conditions that affect women’s health and wellbeing most. WHIT brings these conditions into focus. Maintaining and elevating the WHIT platform would require joint efforts from multiple disciplines in our ecosystem – involving epidemiologists, clinicians, data scientists, economists, and more. We welcome partnerships.” Professor Cuilin Zhang, Director of GloW, NUS Medicine, said.
We are grateful for the support and guidance during this transition from leaders and colleagues worldwide, especially from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, McKinsey Health Institute, and The Global Alliance for Women’s Health at the World Economic Forum (WEF).
🔗 Read the World Economic Forum story on building global infrastructure for women’s health data with contributions from Dr. Shyam Bishen, Lucy Perez, Prof. Cuilin Zhang, and Prof. Yap-Seng CHONG.
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We welcome global collaborators across research, policy, clinical care, data science, and funding to join us in advancing women’s health through data-driven action.