Motherhood Unstressed Closing the Gender Health Gap with Vaginal Microbiome Kit Evvy with Founder Priyanka Jain
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The female body shouldn’t be a medical mystery, unfortunately for most of modern medical history it has been. In fact, women weren’t required to be in clinical research until 1993, and women are diagnosed on average 4 years later than men for the same disease. That’s why my guest this week, Priyanka Jain, created Evvy, an at-home test that aims to close the gender health gap by discovering and leveraging overlooked biomarkers in the female body - starting with the vaginal microbiome.
Some of the topics we discuss:
- The importance of the vaginal microbiome as a marker of female overall health
- The existence of the gender health gap and how to begin to solve it with data
- Metagenomic sequencing and analysis for indications of fertility and infertility
QUOTES
"I think every woman has their own version of the story of being misdiagnosed, or under diagnosed or misunderstood at the doctor's office"
"Women weren't required to be in clinical research until 1993...this is actually a data problem."
"As we started doing research on where to start, the vaginal microbiome became so clear that it was such an important biomarker and marker of health generally in the female body that we had never looked at before"
Resources:
Website: https://www.evvy.com
IG: evvybio
Providers interested in learning more can contact Evvy directly at providers@evvy.com
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More about Priyanka Jain
Priyanka has always been passionate about leveraging data to improve outcomes for women.
She spent the past 4 years as Head of Product at pymetrics, where she focused on building algorithms to make hiring more fair, efficient, and transparent. She's excited about the opportunity to create new datasets that will help us improve diagnoses and treatments for women's health conditions that have gone under-researched for far too long.
Priyanka is also a spokesperson for the United Nations Foundation's Girl Up Campaign, Chair of the Acumen Fund's Junior Council, and on the Innovation Board for the XPrize Foundation. She received her B.S. from Stanford University, where she was a Mayfield Fellow and President of Stanford Women in Business.