Every woman is supported through all the ages and stages of their unique health experience.
The Women’s Health Coalition of Canada is a national advocacy organization that mobilizes evidence, lived experience, partnerships, and innovation to influence policy, transform healthcare systems, and improve outcomes in women's sexual, menstrual, and reproductive health.
We will fulfill our mandate by:
EMPOWERING WOMEN (Self-advocacy)
Supporting women to become informed, confident advocates for their own health.
TRANSFORMING HEALTH SYSTEMS (System Change)
Working with partners to redesign how care is delivered and accessed.
INFLUENCING PUBLIC POLICY (Government Engagement)
Shaping the laws, policies, funding, and accountability mechanisms that create lasting improvements across Canada.
The Women’s Health Coalition Movement
The Women's Health Coalition of Canada is a member-driven national movement that brings together women, healthcare professionals, researchers, community organizations, innovators, advocates, and partners to advance women's health. Through collective advocacy, evidence-informed action, and strategic collaboration, our members drive the policy, system, and societal changes to promote equity and improve health for women across Canada.
ADVOCACY AND POLICY RELATIONS: Influencing laws, regulations, funding, and public policy.
DATA AND EVIDENCE: Developing and mobilizing evidence to support advocacy positions.
HEALTH SYSTEM CHANGE: Demonstrating, testing, and scaling new models of care.
LIVED EXPERIENCES & SELF ADVOCACY: Ensuring lived experiences of women and healthcare professionals inform advocacy priorities, and women are empowered to take authority of their health journey
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: Building connected and engaged networks that mobilizes expertise, lived experience, partnerships, and influence to advance women's health
Identity, Sex and Gender Statement: The Women’s Health Coalition of Canada is committed to addressing health system barriers, gaps, and biases affecting people who identify as women and individuals assigned female at birth. We acknowledge that sex relates to a person’s physical and biological features at birth. We use the term “women” to refer to all people who identify as women. We also recognize that the women’s health issues we address apply to women, trans men and non-binary individuals assigned female at birth.