Women's Health Task Force

The Women’s Health Task Force brings together the global PH community to advance research, knowledge, and care in women’s health and pulmonary hypertension.

Co-chaired by Jessica Badlam, University of Vermont Medical Center, and Daria Kostyunina, Imperial College London, the Task Force supports collaboration on important areas including sex differences in PH, pregnancy and reproductive health, and the advancement of women working in the field.
 

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.

Events

Upcoming

• Satellite Meeting at PVRI 2027 Bangkok
  The Women’s Health Task Force will hold an open satellite meeting at PVRI 2027 Bangkok on Wednesday 27 January 2027, 13:00–15:00. Join us for focused discussion, shared learning, and collaboration. The satellite meeting is open to all PVRI 2027 delegates and can be selected when registering for the Congress.
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Webinars

Past webinar recordings

• 27 July 2026: Sex Differences in Right Heart Remodelling: Oestrogenic Angiogenesis and RV Adaptation to Pressure Overload by Ketul Chaudhary and Jiajun Li
• 20 April 2026: Sex Matters: Translational Advances in Respiratory and PAH Research by Sanda Predescu and Krithika Lingappan
• 9 September 2025: Women’s Health and Pulmonary Vascular Disease

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.