Webinar: Closing the Validation Gap in Women’s Health Wearables
Host: Women of Wearables | Speakers: Azure Grant (Lead Scientist at People Science), Dr. Maike Scharp (Deputy Director of Diagnostics at the Gates Foundation), Jill Angelo (VP Women’s Health & Commercial Partnerships at Oura), Maryann Selfe (Founder of FemmeHealth Alliance), and Laura Yecies (CEO at Osteoboost Health).
For generations, women have faced a frustratingly familiar medical experience: trying to distill complex, dynamic physiological and hormonal shifts into a brief, 15-minute clinical appointment. When forced to rely entirely on memory to map out months of fluctuating symptoms, it becomes incredibly easy for women to be dismissed with phrases like, "It’s just in your head," or "You’re probably just stressed." For too long, women's healthcare has been forced into this box of episodic care, treated as isolated medical events rather than a continuous, lifelong timeline.
But wearable data is completely rewriting this narrative.
We recently partnered with Women of Wearables to host a deep-dive panel featuring industry pioneers from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ŌURA, FemmeHealth Alliance, and Osteoboost. Together, we explored how continuous tracking is finally giving women the hard data, the words, and the agency to have better, more objective conversations with their care providers.
Watch the Full Webinar
Watch industry pioneers from People Science, ŌURA, the Gates Foundation, FemmeHealth Alliance, and Osteoboost discuss the future of FemTech and wearable technology in women’s health. Learn how continuous, longitudinal data is closing the clinical validation gap, giving women medical agency, and shifting healthcare from episodic appointments to continuous, data-driven care. Perfect for FemTech builders, researchers, and healthcare innovators.
Three Key Takeaways for the Future of FemTech
While the potential for wearable tech in women's health is massive, the panel agreed that a major hurdle remains: The Validation Gap. Data without context isn't a medical solution. To truly transform healthcare, the industry must focus on three critical shifts:
Connecting Data to Real Outcomes: True scientific breakthroughs will happen when we move past basic wellness tracking and explicitly link wearable metrics (like HRV and temperature patterns) to clinical diagnoses and endpoints.
Breaking Down Data Silos: The next era of value creation won't come from isolated apps or individual devices. It will come from building trusted, intermediary research ecosystems, the "railway lines", that allow knowledge and data to move faster between patients, builders, and clinicians.
Prioritizing Data Equity: Currently, the majority of wearables are owned by high-income, high-education demographics. If our clinical algorithms are only trained on a small, socioeconomically advantaged slice of the population, the medical insights won't be accurate or safe for everyone. Increasing access is a foundational requirement for true data equity.
Are you looking to validate a women's health device, algorithm, or product with robust clinical evidence? At People Science, we specialize in decentralized clinical trials that make research faster, more affordable, and accessible to diverse, real-world populations and we’d love to chat!
