Policy. Regulation. Delivery. Power. Community.

For Global
Change.

We’re building a Global Innovation Blueprint for the Health of Women.

The Dove Foundation for Global Change works with governments, regulators, multilateral institutions, private sector leaders, clinicians, NGOs and local partners to create a world where women can live healthy, educated, economically secure lives, free from violence and represented in the systems that shape them.

Women are our focus because they are the largest group globally still denied equality. Solving that structural inequality moves everyone closer to dignity, opportunity and freedom.

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4,500+
G20 leaders, policymakers and diplomatic stakeholders reached
23
Countries of engagement and impact across 5 continents
16
Partnerships across current work
A note on language

Why we say the health of women.

Women’s health has long meant reproductive and maternal health. The health of women is wider.

As the term has been used for decades, women’s health covers the conditions tied to female biology. Pregnancy, menstruation, the gynaecological cancers. In practice it has been narrower still. Most of the attention and funding went to maternity, and conditions like endometriosis have only recently begun to draw any serious focus.

The health of women takes in every condition a woman lives with across her life. Cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in women, sits inside it, alongside autoimmune disease, osteoporosis, dementia, migraine, the chronic pain women carry for years, and the reproductive and maternal health the older term already meant to cover.

Women are more than their reproductive organs, and so is their health. That is why we are leading the change to this language.

The funding, the regulation and the clinical attention have all followed the older, narrower definition. Moving to the health of women is the first step in moving the rest.

No. 01 / What we do

Four pillars. One coherent theory of change.

We work top-down and bottom-up simultaneously.

Top-down through engagement with governments, regulators and multilateral agencies that set policy, financing and approval standards.

Bottom-up through programmes designed and run with local partners and clinicians in the places those rules either reach or fail people.

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Statement on Women's Health

Closing the women's health gap could unlock trillions for the global economy every year. Yet women still spend around 25% more of their lives in poor health than men. This is about the basic right to live without pain and fear.

We have written to over 4,500 G20 leaders, parliamentarians, policymakers and diplomatic representatives, calling for a G20 Women's Health Taskforce, national and local implementation groups, and for every political leader to sit down with their hospitals and ask: are you flagging these conditions and the effects of violence early, and if not, what do you need?

Around 10% of women have endometriosis. Up to 80% have fibroids. Cardiovascular disease accounts for one in three deaths of all women each year. One in three women has been subjected to physical or sexual violence.

Pre-eclampsia, where high blood pressure is often dismissed in women, can cost both a mother and her baby their lives. From traumatic injuries and complications in pregnancy to lifelong mental health conditions and chronic pain, the list goes on. The only solution is prioritisation and innovation.

Governments have said they want to invest in women and girls. Now is the moment to prove it, with diagnosis, treatment and funding.

Issued by The Dove Foundation for Global Change in partnership with W20, the official G20 engagement group on gender equality, under the South African Presidency (2025).
No. 02 / Recently

Where we have been working.

30 April 2026 · Houses of Parliament, London

Parliamentary Roundtable on Women's Health Regulation

A high-level convening at the Churchill Room, co-hosted with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Wellcome Leap. The roundtable brought together national regulators, ministers, parliamentarians, clinicians, industry and multilateral agencies to begin building a Global Innovation Blueprint for the Health of Women, organised around regulation, innovation and access.

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G20 Campaign · Ongoing

4,500 parliamentarians briefed on women's health

Direct submissions to G20 leaders, regulators and diplomatic representatives calling for a Women's Health Taskforce.

Partnership · 2025

Foundation joins W20 as partner

The Foundation became a partner of the G20's official engagement group on gender equality, under the South African Presidency.

Convening · 2025

Women's Health Challenges Roundtable at GPhC

A Foundation-led roundtable at the General Pharmaceutical Council bringing pharmacists, clinicians and policy leaders together on women's health challenges.

No. 03 / How we work

We connect. We do not replicate.

Where work is being done well, we connect to it. Where there is a gap, we build.

The Foundation collaborates with charities, federations, professional membership bodies, NGOs, corporates, foundations, multilateral agencies and government departments. Many of those relationships are not public.

What is consistent is the approach. Through Connections for Global Change, our flagship programme, we facilitate the conversations that are not happening, sit alongside the regulators and ministers making the decisions, and run programmes with the local clinicians and partners doing the delivery.

Connections for Global Change sits behind much of this work: building the partnerships, policy programmes and implementation pathways that connect public institutions, civil society, clinical leaders, funders and private sector partners around practical change.

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