Women’s health is a barometer of broader societal resilience. That is the message at the heart of the European Policy Centre’s 2025 Compendium on Women’s Health, launched this morning in Brussels, just ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March.
All.Can International is proud to be among the voices in this compendium. Executive Director Mădălina Iamandei and CEO Eduardo Pisani co-authored a contribution alongside experts from across the field, and we congratulate the EPC for putting this issue front and centre.
Their contribution reflects what we see in our own work every day: women face real, systemic disadvantages in health care. Underrepresentation in clinical research, bias in diagnostics and chronic underinvestment in gender-sensitive services are not abstract problems. They translate into delayed diagnoses, inadequate treatment and poorer outcomes, including in cancer care, where these gaps can be a matter of life and death.
The compendium is a timely reminder that the distance between political commitments and lived experience remains far too wide. With the European Commission at the midpoint of its mandate, the window is open. A dedicated EU Women’s Health Strategy before 2029 would be a meaningful step toward closing it.
Read the full EPC compendium HERE.