Jill Biden Revives Women’s Health Initiative Post-White House

The former first lady has been named the chair of the Milken Institute’s newly launched Women’s Health Network.

While serving as first lady, Dr. Jill Biden hosts the first-ever White House Conference on Women’s Health Research in 2024. (Getty Images)

In her first formal post-White House role, former First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will continue advocating for women’s health as the newly named chair of the Women’s Health Network, which was launched Tuesday by the Milken Institute.

The Women’s Health Network was established by the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank to bring together research institutions, start-ups and entrepreneurs, corporations and businesses, investors, payers, policymakers, patient and community organizations, health systems, and philanthropists to advance women’s health—an approach to solving understudied women’s health issues that Biden explored while first lady.

“I am honored to join the Milken Institute as we unite leaders around a shared mission: for women everywhere to benefit from the lifesaving, world-changing research we know is possible,” Biden said in a news release.

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