Women's Health PAC

We encourage everyone to not just vote today, but get your friends, colleagues and families to #VoteforWomensHealth this #ElectionDay!

More than a dinner, not just a moment, no longer deemed a niche, #womenshealth is a movement, an ecosystem, an unstoppable force! Thank you to ALL in this movement working so hard to drive meaningful change in how we treat women in research and healthcare. Thank you for supporting the first-ever, bipartisan women’s health PAC! Change is happening thanks to you. Vote for women’s health on #ElectionDay and keep advocating for change! #VoteforWomensHealth #Elections2024

We surpassed our goal and funded 16 candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives instead of 10 thanks to the amazing support from across the country! We are supporting Democrats and Republicans, male and female candidates, and from several different states, which shows how #womenshealth impacts all people and communities. These candidates demonstrated a strong commitment to the PAC's core principles, which include ensuring access to comprehensive healthcare, promoting gender equity, advocating for women's rights, increasing public education on women's health issues, supporting research and innovation, fostering collaboration across party lines, and engaging with community needs. The WHPAC believes these principles are essential for advancing effective policies that enhance the health and well-being of women nationwide across the lifespan. Thank you candidates for prioritizing women's health: Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-OH) Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-OR) Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) Rep. Yardira Caraveo, MD (D-CO) Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) Tammy Baldwin for Senate (D-WI) Senator Friends Of Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Candidate for U.S. Senate Angela Alsobrooks Senator Lisa Murkowski for U.S. Senate (R-AK) Senator Jacky Rosen Jacky Rosen for Senate (D-NV) Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) Candidate for U.S. Senate Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY-03) See the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/e8ZBdb7F Make your vote count! #VoteforWomensHealth #Elections2024

Amazing final event before #ElectionDay for the Women’s Health PAC! Thanks to phenomenal speakers, hosts, volunteers and Sponsor for making this possible! ⭐️ Speakers: Jennifer Garrison, PhD - Assistant Professor of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Co-Founder & Director of the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity & Equality Linda Greub, CFA, MBA - Co-Founder & Managing Partner Avestria Ventures Catherine Liao - Chief Strategy Officer of Cardiex Zakia Rahman, MD, FAAD - Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Stanford University and Director of the Resident Laser and Aesthetic Clinic ⭐️ Dinner Hosts: Neda Razavi, MBA - CEO & Chairwoman of the Board, iSono Health Sophia Yen, MD, MPH - Founder of Pandia Health Lauren Opoliner - Founder, LRO Consulting Jin Lee, Ph.D - Founder & CEO, IMIDeology Jessica Bell van der Wal - CEO & Co-Founder, Frame Fertility ⭐️ Sponsor: Patrick Gallagher Lucius Partners Thank you all!

We are so honored that Lucius Partners is sponsoring tomorrow night's Menlo Park dinner for the first-ever, bipartisan Women's Health PAC! Your support helps advance women's health in the political arena. We are also very honored to have amazing leaders in women's health come together to share insights and connect: Jennifer Garrison, PhD - Assistant Professor of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Co-Founder & Director of the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity & Equality Linda Greub, CFA, MBA - Co-Founder & Managing Partner Avestria Ventures Catherine Liao - Chief Strategy Officer of Cardiex  Zakia Rahman, MD, FAAD - Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Stanford University and Director of the Resident Laser and Aesthetic Clinic Thank you to our amazing WHPAC volunteer dinner hosts making this event possible! Neda Razavi, MBA - CEO & Chairwoman of the Board, iSono Health Sophia Yen, MD, MPH - Founder of Pandia Health  Lauren Opoliner - Founder, LRO Consulting Jin Lee, Ph.D - Founder & CEO, IMIDeology  Jessica Bell van der Wal - CEO & Co-Founder, Frame Fertility Join the movement that together we are turning into a mandate for change!

Join us in San Francisco area on Oct 30 for our *FINAL* Women's Health PAC event before #ElectionDay - https://lu.ma/z0h3d9bv - Learn about the “Longevity Revolution: Advancing Health and Investing in the Future." You will have the opportunity to dine over engaging conversations with innovators, executives, investors, healthcare providers and changemakers in women’s health and hear special remarks from pioneers in transforming the health of women. One of the speakers is the amazing Jennifer Garrison who is Assistant Professor of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Co-Founder & Director of the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity & Equality. She also holds appointments at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California (USC). She is a passionate advocate for women’s health and is pioneering a new movement to advance science focused on female reproductive aging. Her lab studies the role of inter-tissue communication in systemic aging, and how changes in the complex interactions between the ovary and brain during middle-age lead to the onset of reproductive decline in females. Dr. Garrison received her BA in Molecular Cell Biology from UC Berkeley, completed her PhD at UCSF in Chemistry and Chemical Biology where she was a NSF Fellow and an ARCS Scholar, and was a fellow at the Rockefeller University. She is a board member of the American Aging Association (AGE) and the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives (A4Li) and was named Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Neuroscience Research Fellow and Allen Institute for Brain Science Next Generation Leader. She is also the recipient of a Glenn Medical Foundation Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging, a Junior Faculty Award from the American Federation of Aging Research, and a Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award from the National Academy of Medicine. "Menopause is not a biological imperative,” says Jennifer Garrison often and in this recent news article: https://lnkd.in/eFuy3Amq Join us on 10/30 to hear insights from Jennifer on menopause, our ovaries and healthy aging, plus spend quality time getting to know her better at this intimate dinner. Others sharing remarks include: Catherine Liao Zakia Rahman, MD, FAAD Linda Greub, CFA, MBA Tickets are selling fast! Get your ticket today: https://lu.ma/z0h3d9bv Thank you to our amazing Sponsor: Lucius Partners and Patrick Gallagher Thank you to our WHPAC volunteer dinner Hosts: Neda Razavi, MBA Sophia Yen, MD, MPH Lauren Opoliner Jin Lee, Ph.D Jessica Bell van der Wal The evening promises to be educational, empowering and energizing! Join us and join the movement!

We are proud to announce our funding for 16 candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, reflecting a diverse group of both Democrats and Republicans, as well as male and female candidates. Each selected candidate will receive a contribution of $3,300. To qualify for these funds, candidates demonstrated a strong commitment to the PAC's core principles, which include ensuring access to comprehensive healthcare, promoting gender equity, advocating for women's rights, increasing public education on women's health issues, supporting research and innovation, fostering collaboration across party lines, and engaging with community needs. The WHPAC believes these principles are essential for advancing effective policies that enhance the health and well-being of women nationwide. The candidates are: Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-OH) Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-OR) Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) Rep. Yardira Caraveo, MD (D-CO) Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) Tammy Baldwin for Senate (D-WI) Senator Friends Of Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Candidate for U.S. Senate Angela Alsobrooks Senator Lisa Murkowski for U.S. Senate (R-AK) Senator Jacky Rosen for Senate (D-NV) Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) Candidate for U.S. Senate Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY-03) See the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/e8ZBdb7F Vote #electionday 2024!

Join us in San Francisco area on Oct 30 for our *FINAL* Women's Health PAC event before #ElectionDay - https://lu.ma/z0h3d9bv - Learn about the “Longevity Revolution: Advancing Health and Investing in the Future." You will have the opportunity to dine over engaging conversations with innovators, executives, investors, healthcare providers and changemakers in women’s health and hear special remarks from pioneers in transforming the health of women. One of the speakers is the amazing Catherine Liao who is Chief Strategy Officer for Cardiff. Previously, Catherine served as the co-founder and CEO of Blumio (acquired by Cardiex), a venture-backed startup that developed a wearable sensor for blood pressure monitoring and was acquired by CardieX in 2022. Before embarking on her entrepreneurial journey, Catherine worked with some of the world’s largest enterprises, leveraging technology to drive business outcomes for over a decade. At Cisco, she helped commercialize technologies that enhanced the efficiency of business-critical applications, including the timely transmission of medical images, a breakthrough that allowed physicians to make medical decisions without delays. An active leader in the startup community with an MBA from Imperial College London and MSc in Health Economics from London School of Economics, Catherine provides guidance and mentorship to other entrepreneurs as an Executive Mentor for Santa Cruz Accelerates and a Program Lead for the Startup Leadership Program. You can see highlights of her remarks from a FemTech event this summer here: https://lnkd.in/ezhJ_NtA Join us on 10/30 to hear insights from Catherine and get to spend time getting to know her better at this intimate dinner. Others sharing remarks include: Jennifer Garrison, PhD Zakia Rahman, MD, FAAD Linda Greub, CFA, MBA Tickets are selling fast! Get your ticket today: https://lu.ma/z0h3d9bv Thank you to our amazing Sponsor: Lucius Partners and Patrick Gallagher Thank you to our WHPAC volunteer dinner Hosts: Neda Razavi, MBA Sophia Yen, MD, MPH Lauren Opoliner Jin Lee, Ph.D Jessica Bell van der Wal The evening promises to be educational, empowering and energizing! Join us and join the movement!

Join us in San Francisco area on Oct 30 for our *FINAL* Women's Health PAC event before #ElectionDay - https://lu.ma/z0h3d9bv - Learn about the “Longevity Revolution: Advancing Health and Investing in the Future." You will have the opportunity to dine over engaging conversations with innovators, executives, investors, healthcare providers and changemakers in women’s health and hear special remarks from pioneers in transforming the health of women. One of the speakers is the amazing Zakia Rahman, MD, FAAD who is a Clinical Professor, Assistant Chief at the Livermore Division of the PAVAHCS and Director of the Resident Laser and Aesthetic Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Rahman serves on the American Academy of Dermatology Diversity Committee. She also is member of the Stanford Physician Wellness Committee and the Stanford Medical School Faculty Senate. Her clinical interests include geriatric dermatology, surgical dermatology, lasers, ethnic skin, fillers and neurotoxins for medical and aesthetic indications. Her research interests include lasers for medical and aesthetic indications and ethnic skin. You can see her advice on skin cancer, skin care, and treatments here: https://lnkd.in/e7XVftsn Join us on 10/30 to hear insights from Dr. Rahman and get to spend time getting to know her better at this intimate dinner. Others sharing remarks include: Jennifer Garrison, PhD, CEM Senior Healthcare Executive Catherine Liao Linda Greub, CFA, MBA Tickets are selling fast! Get your ticket today: https://lu.ma/z0h3d9bv Thank you to our amazing Sponsor: Lucius Partners and Patrick Gallagher Thank you to our WHPAC volunteer dinner Hosts: Neda Razavi, MBA Sophia Yen, MD, MPH Lauren Opoliner Jin Lee, Ph.D Jessica Bell van der Wal The evening promises to be educational, empowering and energizing! Join us and join the movement!

Join us in San Francisco area on Oct 30 for our *FINAL* Women's Health PAC event before #ElectionDay - https://lu.ma/z0h3d9bv - Learn about the “Longevity Revolution: Advancing Health and Investing in the Future." You will have the opportunity to dine over engaging conversations with innovators, executives, investors, healthcare providers and changemakers in women’s health and hear special remarks from pioneers in transforming the health of women. One of the speakers is the amazing Linda Greub, CFA, MBA who is co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures, which invests in early-stage women's health and female-led life science ventures. Prior to Avestria, Linda spent 30+ years investing in public and private life science companies as an institutional investor, a corporate M&A executive, a hedge fund analyst, and a private venture investor. She's held roles at companies such as Essex Investment Management, Banc of America Securities, Novartis Diagnostics, Applied Biosystems (sold to Life Technologies Corp.) as well as at venture-backed life science companies such as VitaPath Genetics, Singulex, Raindance Technologies (sold to Bio-Rad), and Linkage Biosciences (sold to Thermo Fisher). Her areas of expertise includes finance, operations, and mergers and acquisitions and, within the life sciences specifically, diagnostics, genomics, healthcare services, and life science tools. She wrote this great article on investing in women's health, stating: "Female founders received only 1.9% of all venture capital funding in 2022 and female founders of women’s health companies received even less than that. However, when it comes to innovation and improvements for women, female-led women’s health companies are poised to succeed." https://lnkd.in/gFZ2TbSd Join us on 10/30 to hear insights from Linda and get to spend time getting to know her better at this intimate dinner. Others sharing remarks include: Jennifer Garrison, PhD, CEM Senior Healthcare Executive Catherine Liao  Zakia Rahman, MD, FAAD Tickets are selling fast! Get your ticket today: https://lu.ma/z0h3d9bv Thank you to our amazing Sponsor: Lucius Partners and Patrick Gallagher Thank you to our WHPAC volunteer dinner Hosts: Neda Razavi, MBA Sophia Yen, MD, MPH  Lauren Opoliner Jin Lee, Ph.D  Jessica Bell van der Wal The evening promises to be educational, empowering and energizing! Join us and join the movement!