About Better Woman Health
Why Better Woman Health exists.
Across Africa, people are already building for women’s health. Founders are shipping products. Clinicians are seeing the same problems walk into their clinics week after week. Researchers are generating evidence that rarely reaches the people who need it. Investors are starting to look closer. Most of this work happens in isolation, and that is the gap Better Woman Health exists to close.
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WHERE IT STARTED
Two groups. The same underlying gap.
Better Woman Health was founded by Dr. Ayomide Owodunni, a medical doctor. In clinical practice, she watched a pattern repeat itself: women arriving at critical stages of an illness that could have been caught earlier, confused about their own cycles, dismissed by previous doctors, told their symptoms were normal for women. The information that could have changed their outcomes existed. It just never reached them in time.
That pattern pushed her out of the clinic and into women’s health education, first one woman at a time, then at a larger scale by working alongside the health-tech founders building products for exactly those women. Working closer to that side of the ecosystem surfaced a second, related problem: founders building real solutions, often without a clinician, a peer, or an investor who understood women’s health specifically to build alongside.
Not enough connection to the right information, and not enough connection to each other. Better Woman Health is the response to both.
What we believe
Stronger ecosystems build stronger solutions.
When the people working on related problems can find each other, they share knowledge, spot collaborators, attract the right investment, and build things they could not have built alone.
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COLLABORATE
Support the partnerships and joint work that follow.
The research, the introductions, and the projects that only happen once people are actually connected to each other.
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CONNECT
Link them to relevant people, knowledge, and opportunities.
Better Woman Health connects builders to people, knowledge, and opportunities they would not otherwise find on their own.
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CONVENE
Bring the people building women's health into the same room.
Better Woman Health brings founders, clinicians, researchers, and investors into the same room, so they know who else is working on problems next to theirs.
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The directory
WHY NIGERIA FIRST
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The directory starts in Nigeria. The rest of BWH doesn’t.
The conference and newsletter already reach builders across Africa. The directory works differently: it depends on verified, on-the-ground detail, so Better Woman Health is building it market by market rather than all at once.
Nigeria is first because it already has the ingredients: a large population, real clinical need, a growing health-tech scene, and founders building right now. As the directory proves itself in Nigeria, Better Woman Health will extend the same model into other African markets.
Our current position
We are early, and we would rather show you than claim it.
Better Woman Health is early. It runs a newsletter read by founders, operators, and investors across Africa, and hosted its first conference, bringing women’s health builders, clinicians, and investors into the same virtual room. Better Woman Health is now building the directory: a map of the founders and organizations building women’s health solutions, starting in Nigeria, so this ecosystem can finally see itself.
Better Woman Health is not claiming to have mapped the whole continent yet. It is building that map in public, starting with the pieces it can build well right now.
KEEP BUILDING
Want to see what that looks like? Go to What We Build.
The conference, the newsletter, and the directory, all in one place.