Women's Health Task Force

Big news: the Women’s Health Task Force is back! 

We’re thrilled to announce the re-launch of the Women’s Health Task Force - now co-chaired by Jessica Badlam, University of Vermont Medical Center, and Daria Kostyunina, Imperial College London.

The Women’s Health Task Force is a revitalised PVRI initiative committed to advancing care, outcomes, and research for women affected by PVD.

Aims & Goals

This workstream aims to:

• foster global collaboration to improve knowledge, encourage research, and optimise delivery of clinical care to women with pulmonary vascular disease
• engage and support efforts in the investigation into sex differences, including the female predominance, in pulmonary arterial hypertension
• advance knowledge and provide guidance on pregnancy and reproductive health in women with pulmonary hypertension
• support and encourage women investigators in pulmonary vascular disease wherever they live in the world

Key goals:

• Bring together experts in the field to publish an updated consensus statement on pregnancy in pulmonary hypertension

• Host a series of webinars on topics in women’s health and pulmonary vascular disease that are of great interest to the PVRI community.

If you are interested in joining this Task Force, please get in touch - we’d love to hear from you.

Let’s move women’s health forward — together.

Webinars

Upcoming webinars

• 27 July 2026: Sex Differences in Right Heart Remodeling: Oestrogenic Angiogenesis and RV Adaptation to Pressure Overload
   

Past webinar recordings

• Sex Matters: Translational Advances in Respiratory and PAH Research by Sanda Predescu and Krithika Lingappan on 20 April 2026
• Women’s Health and Pulmonary Vascular Disease on 9 September 2025