Women's Health Conference 2026

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, in collaboration with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Following the successful conferences held in Singapore in 2023 and 2024 and in Paris in 2025, the 2026 conference will take place in Boston from September 30 to October 2, 2026. The 2026 meeting is co-organized by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, GloW at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Institute for Women and Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Health (iWISH) at Université Paris Cité. The conference will highlight cutting-edge advances shaping women’s health across the life course. Despite increasing global attention, women’s health remains under-researched and underfunded in many critical domains. Women experience unique biological transitions—from puberty and pregnancy to menopause and aging—that shape lifelong health trajectories. Addressing these complexities requires coordinated, interdisciplinary, and global collaboration. This conference will convene leading scientists, clinicians, innovators, policymakers, and global organizations to accelerate solutions that improve health outcomes for women worldwide. The scientific program will feature: Breakthroughs in precision nutrition and lifestyle medicine; Advances in fertility, pregnancy, and reproductive health; New approaches to mental health and brain health; Healthy aging, cognition, and cardiometabolic health; The expanding role of AI and femtech in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention; Global women’s health and health equity. The program will include plenary lectures, thematic panels, poster sessions, lightning talks by junior investigators, and a special session featuring international organizations and foundations focused on sustaining global investment in women’s health research. The conference will conclude with a half-day symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), the largest and longest-running study of women’s health, established in 1976.