In health care women are still treated as if they are small men even though they are not. We know very well that women and men suffer from different illnesses, present with different symptoms while suffering of the same illness, and react differently to medication. While there are some best practices scattered across the various disciplines of medical health, an overarching picture of what is needed for inclusive health care for women is missing.

Please listen to one of the women who are about to change this: Prof. Dr. Hanneke Takkenberg, affiliated with both the Erasmus Medical Centre and the Erasmus Business School in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Together with two colleagues she just founded founded the Netherlands Women’s Health Research & Innovation Center. In this episode of our podcast series Inclusive Research and Innovation (IRI) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Dr. Claudia Werker (Delft University of Technology), asks her about her engagement for women’s health. Hanneke shares how inclusive health care for women requires more interdisciplinary collaboration between different disciplines in health care and beyond, more and other kinds of data collection as well as close collaboration with patient groups and Femtech firms.