By Lisa Mosconi and George Vradenburg – Time Magazine
Nowhere is the cost of ignoring women’s health more visible or more correctable than in the brain. Closing the women’s health gap could add $1 trillion in annual incremental GDP to the global economy. That figure should reframe how every boardroom and budget office thinks about women’s health.
Women’s health is a macroeconomic opportunity we have ignored. Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services convened its inaugural National Conference on Women’s Health. It is time to treat this issue with the urgency and rigor it deserves.