Former Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan (2006-2010, 2022), SCO Secretary General (2019-21); Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Germany, Poland, Switzerland (1998-2003); BENELUX, EU & NATO (2004-06, 2013-17)
Reducing the women’s health gap improves lives and can potentially unlock a $ 1 trillion GDP opportunity annually by 2040, according to a new analysis from the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the McKinsey Health Institute. Together, they reveal the incredible avenues for creating meaningful global change. Historically, men have led and been the subject of the study of medicine and biology. Most animal models have been done on male specimens, which still prevails today. Questions around sex-based differences were rarely investigated or recorded, with the assumption – now known to be false – that there are few important differences in the functioning of organs and systems in men and women beyond reproduction. This has resulted in ~65% of interventions (which have sex-disaggregated research) being less effective for women than men https://lnkd.in/d6FqexVu