Believe Them, Include Them, Fund Them

According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s 2023/24 Women’s Entrepreneurship Report, startup activity among women has risen steadily over the past 25 years, even as they face headwinds related to cultural perceptions of women in business and limited access to capital.

One of the effects of this activity is women entrepreneurs who are taking problems affecting women in healthcare and creating business solutions to address them. 

In this episode, four entrepreneurial leaders in the women’s health innovation space, taking problems in women’s healthcare and leading the way to possibilities.

• Elissa Kalver Founder and CEO of Wegotthis.org
  
  
• Dr. Wiljeana Glover, Associate Professor in Operations and Information Management, and the founding faculty director of the Kerry Murphy Healey Center for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Babson College
  
  
• Elizabeth Bailey, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Foreground Capital
  
  
• Mary Tinebra '90, Business Partner and Chief Commercialization Officer at Inflection

Sources:

Intro Segment:

(2024, November 19). 2023/24 Women’s Entrepreneurship Report Reshaping Economies and Communities. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. https://gemconsortium.org/report/202324-womens-entrepreneurship-report-reshaping-economies-and-communities-2

Dr. Wiljeana Glover Segment:

1. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/aug/health-care-women-how-us-compares-internationally

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2866602/#:~:text=Results.,of%2043.7%25%20of%20the%20NMEs.

Keyhani S, Wang S, Hebert P, Carpenter D, Anderson G. US pharmaceutical innovation in an international context. Am J Public Health. 2010 Jun;100(6):1075-80. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.178491. Epub 2010 Apr 19. PMID: 20403883; PMCID: PMC2866602.

1. https://hologic.womenshealthindex.com/sites/default/files/2024-01/MISC09031_HGWHI_Y3GlobalReport_Final_Digital.pdf

1. Glover, W., Pachamanova, D., and Li, Z. (2024) Framing Inclusive Practice Options for Financial, Operational, and Community Outcomes. Production and Operations Management Journal. Impact Factor: 4.6. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10591478241276927

1. Glover, W., Crocker, A., and Brush, C., (2024) Healthcare Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Framework for Future Research. Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Impact Factor: 6.6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352673424000283

1. https://submissions.mirasmart.com/InformsAnnual2024/Itinerary/PresentationDetail.aspx?evdid=69this particular study actually focused on breast cancer survival, not maternal morbidity, but similar findings have been found in maternal morbidity see: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11113-021-09691-2

1. Gai, Y., Crocker, A., Brush, C., & Glover, W. J. (2024). How healthcare entrepreneurship enhances ecosystem outcomes: the relationship between venture capital-funded start-ups and county-level health. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ijebr-02-2023-0204/full/html#:~:text=Indeed%2C%20our%20results%20show%20that,binge%20drinking%20rates%20at%20the

Elizabeth Bailey Segment:

1. Medicaid Stat: https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/quality-of-care/quality-improvement-initiatives/maternal-infant-health-care-quality/index.html#:~:text=Nearly%20two%20out%20of%20every,births%20in%20the%20United%20States.

Mary Tinebra Segment: