MOVE THE MOUNTAIN™
Stand with Dr. Vonda Wright to help build the future women deserve.
Women are living longer, but too many are spending those additional years navigating preventable decline, immobility, frailty, and loss of independence. Despite affecting half the population, women's health and aging research have historically remained underfunded, under-prioritized, and too often treated as a niche category rather than one of the defining health opportunities of our time.
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CENTER DETAILS
The Center for Healthy Aging in Women at the Buck is spearheading a paradigm shift in women’s health research. While women outlive men by a few years on average, they also experience a disproportionately longer period of poor health. We’re dedicated to understanding and enhancing women’s health by focusing on a critical yet overlooked aspect of female physiology: ovarian function. Ovaries are the architects of health and the pacemakers for aging in female bodies. They age faster than other organs, leading to wide-ranging health implications. The consequences extend far beyond fertility and menopause, impacting women’s health through their entire adult lives. Our mission is to drive discovery and innovation in ovarian and endocrine aging to transform prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of age-related diseases and improve women’s health throughout life.
Since our inception in 2019, we pioneered a completely new area of research at the interface of longevity science and reproductive biology. We have created a sustainable, impactful, and diverse ecosystem to accelerate translation, raise awareness, address gaps in knowledge, develop targeted treatments, and improve health outcomes for aging women worldwide. Under the auspices of the Productive Health Consortium (previously named the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (GCRLE)), we supported 57 research grants across 4 continents. Read more about the Center for Healthy Aging in Women at the Buck.