The Coalition for Women’s Brain Health is a group of organizations and individuals promoting women’s brain health and addressing the disproportionate burden of neurological disease on women through a focus on research, advocacy, and collaboration.
Our vision is to ensure women have access to cognitive health resources and to empower women to actively invest in their cognitive well-being.
Our efforts to address our goals stated above are organized into the following three priority areas:
Current or future research focused on sex differences related to women’s brain health.
Caregiving responsibilities and the entities that impact caregiving burden and support.
Care delivery models addressing women’s brain health and women’s ability to seek brain-related care compared to men.
Approximately ~8-10% of NIH funding is allocated to research focused specifically on women.
Genentech, AARP and the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM) at Cleveland Clinic established a Steering Committee comprised of healthcare leaders and experts from government agencies, professional organizations, health systems, and research institutions. This Steering Committee was developed in part to advance efforts originally spearheaded by WAM at Cleveland Clinic. In 2019, WAM at Cleveland Clinic convened experts to assess the state of research on women’s brain health. Following the meeting came a detailed roadmap for outlining a 5-Point Strategic Plan to address disparities:
(Source: Alzheimer’s Association, 2024)
