Please join us for an eye-opening conversation with Jennifer Garrison, PhD, a passionate and vocal advocate for healthy aging in women. Dr. Garrison is pioneering a global movement to advance and translate research science focused on how ovaries impact women’s health across their lives. Ovaries are the architects of health and the pacemaker for aging in female bodies. Women’s health has long been sidelined, garnering barely 10% of research dollars and 4% of biopharma investment while impacting over half the global population. A tiny fraction of that – less than 0.1% — has been applied to study ovarian aging, arguably the most important but simultaneously the most neglected topic affecting women’s health and wellbeing. While women outlive men by a few years on average, they also experience a disproportionately longer period of poor health because ovaries age faster than other tissues. Understanding this process is key to enhancing women’s healthspan. This isn’t about reproduction – it’s about revolutionizing how we understand and support women’s health at every age, from before puberty through the end of life.

The tide is changing as women demand equality in biomedical research and healthcare. The Center for Healthy Aging in Women is an innovation hub and global anchor for a sustainable, impactful, and diverse research ecosystem to accelerate translation, raise awareness, address gaps in knowledge, develop targeted treatments, and improve health outcomes for aging women worldwide. This talk will cover the state of research, the gaps, and where it’s headed as we forge a collaborative dialogue about women’s health and longevity.

Dr. Jennifer Garrison is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of ProductiveHealth.org and Co-Director of the Center for Healthy Aging in Women at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, where her research lab studies mind-body communication, particularly how changes in the conversation between ovaries and brain may lead to accelerated aging in females. Her goal is to discover how and why ovaries age before other tissues and use that knowledge to extend healthspan in women. Dr. Garrison also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF and the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.