Did you know there's a huge gap in research on women's health? 🚨 with Dorothy Kilroy

Name: Did you know there's a huge gap in research on women's health? 🚨 with Dorothy Kilroy
Uploaded: 2024-09-13T15:00:26+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this segment, Dorothy Kilroy emphasizes that women serve as the primary health managers for their families, acting as gatekeepers of everyone’s…

13 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, Dorothy Kilroy emphasizes that women serve as the primary health managers for their families, acting as gatekeepers of everyone’s well‑being. She shares her own fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences, noting how her health directly influences her family’s health. Kilroy argues that despite good intentions, research on women’s health remains severely limited, warning against applying male‑centric studies to women. Citing Stacy Sims, she stresses that women are biologically distinct and that their bodies are constantly changing, making dedicated research both necessary and fascinating.

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I think one thing that I've seen consistent is women are almost the chief medical officer of the family. They are the gatekeeper of everybody's health. And there's many studies shown that when you improve women's health, you improve everybody's health. I can certainly feel that in my family. I've been on my own sort of fertility journey, pregnancy journey, postpartum journey. And when I am not right, I feel that it affects the entire family. So I'm particularly passionate about this area because we still, even with our best intentions, still have very little research and understanding. You know, I think Stacy Sims says this really well. We are not small men and we cannot take the research that has been done on men and just apply it to women. We are very unique. And in fact, I think our biology and our bodies are so amazing to study because they're changing all the time.