OHT Women's Health

Making Your FemTech Work for All Women: Guide Design & Production Project overview We are producing a publicly available practical guide for FemTech founders, product teams, and investors. The guide will help people embed inclusive design into women’s health technology from the ground up. This is the flagship output of a collaboration between UCL Innovation & Enterprise and One HealthTech. Background materials To support the creative approach, please review the background mat

TAKE THE SURVEY Background Innovation in FemTech only matters if it works for the people it’s meant to serve. Too often, products overlook disabled women, migrant communities, women of colour, trans and non‑binary people, and those in rural or underserved areas. Some teams have found ways to design more equitably, others have hit barriers. This survey is about learning from both. Who is the survey for? Anyone working on, using, or shaping FemTech products,whether you’re build

Insights from OHT Brighton’s October meetup by Rose Bundock and Kate Prescott The OHT Brighton meetup on 13 October brought together health innovators at The Walrus to tackle a question that should concern anyone building healthcare technology: are we actually solving the right problems? Guest speaker Katherine Church, a Digital Health Strategist and former Chief Digital Officer for Surrey Heartlands ICS, came with an uncomfortable statistic: 80% of health innovation initiati

Let’s be real: a lot of women’s health technologies are still built with just one type of user in mind. Think cisgender, English speaking, digitally savvy, living in a high income country. That might work for some, but it leaves far too many people out. Older women. Disabled people. LGBTQ+ communities. Migrants. People of colour. Anyone facing barriers around language, literacy, or connectivity. Health tech should work for all of us, not just the easiest box to tick. So we’re