On 8 March, Worldwide Girls’s Day (IWD), UCB will rally behind the worldwide name to “Encourage Inclusion” – an essential message that we proudly assist throughout our group. Once we take a step again to consider what it means to be inclusive – one crucial space that’s missing is the inclusion of pregnant and breastfeeding girls in scientific trials. Present analysis tells us that an underrepresentation of ladies in scientific trials general can have a big adverse impression on girls’s well being.
At UCB, we’re steadfast in our dedication to closing the being pregnant hole and accelerating progress within the care of pregnant and breastfeeding girls with continual ailments. In partnership with scientific groups, we attempt to handle data gaps, collaborate with and encourage physicians and sufferers around the globe to establish potential academic wants.
I used to be honored to attach with key exterior stakeholders this previous 12 months on behalf of UCB at totally different medical congresses, trade occasions and panels, together with the chance to supply suggestions on the FDA’s proposed Being pregnant Security Research Framework workshop.
As advocates for ladies dwelling with continual ailments who’re navigating life altering moments for themselves and their households, we perceive how essential it’s to resolve the lack of expertise about being pregnant and breastfeeding therapy selections, making certain girls could make higher knowledgeable selections based mostly on information and inclusivity.
On a private notice, I really feel very lucky to be main such an essential initiative as UCB’s World Head of Girls of Childbearing Age, and day-after-day I’m pushed to #InspireInclusion and contribute to significant progress on this house. Alongside a faithful group, I’m embracing this IWD by advocating for and dealing in the direction of a future the place the inclusion of pregnant and breastfeeding girls in scientific trials is the norm. In time, we hope that ladies could make extra knowledgeable selections and really feel empowered in any respect ages and levels of their life.
As I look to the 12 months forward, I’m happy to share that I can be bringing this essential dialog to DIA World in June. I am keen to speak about our work in the direction of early information technology for pregnant and lactating girls dwelling with continual ailments.
Additionally, as co-chair of the worldwide unbiased fee, BRIDGE (Higher Analysis, Data and Knowledge Era for Empowerment) – I stay up for persevering with to assist elevate these essential conversations and ship sensible and action-oriented options to beat data gaps that have an effect on girls’s well being — the primary of which can be detailed in a report due in early 2024.
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