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Women’s Global Health Innovations Provides Menstrual, Sexual, and Reproductive Health Solutions for Women in Need

In Features23, Health, womensempowerment by Mary Kurek

Leisa Hirtz is the Founder and Director of the Women’s Global Health Innovations organization out of Canada.  She is working to ensure that girls and women in countries without proper sanitary products for menstrual, sexual, and reproductive health, to get what they need and that the solution is as affordable and sustainable as possible.  The antibacterial befree menstrual cup is …

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Marissa Fayer – HERHealthEQ

In Features23, GameChangers23, Health by Mary Kurek

Marissa Fayer is the founder and CEO of HERHealthEQ – an organization that provides recycled medical equipment to marginalized areas of the world to improve women’s health. In this interview with Publisher, Mary Kurek, Marissa talks about how started HERHealthEQ and what the work entails.  She shares stories on how she’s accomplishing this mission involving projects in countries like Vietnam, …

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Abby Stern of HITLAB’s Women’s Health Tech Initiative on Assisting Femtech Growth

In Features23, Health by Mary Kurek

Abby Stern has been working with the Women’s Health Tech Initiative at HITLAB since the inception of the project and has provided leadership in seeing it through to current development. The mission is simply to provide support to femtech founders and leaders through education, fund challenges, research, data, and coaching. In this interview, Abby talks with Publisher, Mary Kurek, about …

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HERA Gives Access to Free Healthcare Resources and Compliance Messaging to Refugees in Turkey

In Features23, Health by Mary Kurek

Aral Sürmeli is a medical professional turned innovator and entrepreneur.  Though he’s received a good bit of his education in Harvard circles, Aral is using his knowledge and experience to create solutions to problems, particularly ones that impact the enormous refugee population in Turkey. Aral and the HERA team of 6 have been working steadily on developing and finetuning a …

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DKT International Making Huge Impact on Family Planning and Reproductive Health Worldwide

In Features23, Health by Mary Kurek

In 2019, 48 million people received 2 years’ worth of reproductive health products making DKT International one of the world’s largest providers of family planning, HIV/AIDS prevention, and safe abortion products and services.  The positive impact is on women’s health, less unwanted pregnancies, maternal deaths, and unsafe abortions.  In areas of the world where these occurrences are common and threatening …

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League Member Deb Tauber Picked Up for Entrepreneurship Accelerator for Innovations in Healthcare

In Features23 by Mary Kurek

Another “win” for Frontrunners League member, Deb Tauber, Founder of Innovative SimSolutions, LLC.  Deb recently announced her acceptance into Cohort 3 of the Women in Entrepreneurship Institute Accelerator.  Her work in advancing simulated training in healthcare has won her this special honor.  We salute and congratulate Deb!  Check it out!