The State of Women in Healthcare: An Update

Exactly a year ago, we decided to publish the gender data on founders at Rock Health. Despite women being the majority of our team and our board, only 30% of our portfolio companies had a female founder (today, we are at almost 34%). Because we’d like to help our...

Healthcare conferences still a sad place for diversity

A snapshot of the Cleveland Clinic Innovation Summit, October 29th, 2014, where only 20% of speakers were female Last year, Rock Health took the first look  at gender diversity on the stages of a dozen high-profile healthcare conferences. We knew from experience that...

10 Women Rockstars In The History Of Healthcare

Virginia Apgar Ana Manzur-Allan  In honor of International Women’s Day,  XX in Health is featuring 10 inspiring ladies in the history of healthcare and medicine. From a Nobel-prize winning chemist who discovered the structure of penicillin to the founder of...