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04
Apr
2025

WEALTH: Women In Health

Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to attend the launch event of WEALTH: Women In Health in partnership with Covington & Burling LLP on 2 April 2025. Its aim is to build a powerful community of women across the full value chain of health and investment to advance the health, wealth and position of women in the world. WEALTH was created because whilst women drive approximately 80% of major healthcare decisions, women are underrepresented and underserved across the industry and this needs to change. Female founders face significant barriers to innovation, with women-led startups across Europe and the U.S. receiving just 2% of venture capital funding. There is also still little funding available for female reproductive health and unconscious bias which lies deep in society in the home, workplace and at a political level which holds women back.

02
Apr
2025

Is Fertility Treatment A Solution To Population Decline?

Louisa Ghevaert was pleased to attend Progress Educational Trust's event "Is Fertility Treatment A Solution To Population Decline?" on 26 March 2025. Fertility is continuing to decline across the globe and birth rates are steadily falling. Fertility rates are now at the lowest in the UK since World War II. As such, this event looked at a range of factors influencing declining global fertility and birth rates and debated whether fertility treatment can bridge the gap and solve population decline. It also shone a light on the need for the UK to have better policies from a fertility perspective with more impact as a number of issues are not addressed in the workplace and this is affecting women's decisions to have children.

21
Mar
2025

Ethica Fertility Launch Event

Louisa Ghevaert had the pleasure of celebrating the Ethica Fertility launch event on 20 March 2025 at Barnby Street in London with other dedicated professionals in the fertility and family building space. Ethica Fertility's mission is to offer an innovative, more personalised approach to fertility care and reproductive health. Louisa was delighted to meet the team at Ethica Fertility, take a tour of their state of the art clinic facilities and learn more about their holistic approach to assisted conception and patient centric care. Ethica Fertility seeks to redefine fertility care and make fertility care more inclusive, effective and supportive, leading to better outcomes for patients no matter their race, gender, sexual orientation or family structure.

12
Mar
2025

Epigenetics In Human Reproduction

Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to attend the Nuffield Council on Bioethics workshop “Epigenetics in human reproduction” in central London on 11 March 2025. This event looked at the use and implications of epigenetics in human reproduction. It considered the inter-relationships between the reproductive environment, the epigenome, long-term health and assisted reproductive technologies. It went on to explore current and future scientific applications, ethical, legal and social implications. In doing so, it explored all sorts of important and complex questions and issues. How do you measure or control the environment? How effective may an intervention be and at what stage to optimise health, pregnancy and birth? How do you account for epigenetic responses (mechanisms that regulate gene expression without changing the DNA sequence) that differ between people? How reliable is epigenetic testing? How can you provide effective messaging? How do you address these issues from a policy perspective?

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