Our people
Together, every member of Wellbeing of Women plays a vital part in safeguarding the future health of women, babies and their families.
We focus on women's health across the life course, from menstrual problems, endometriosis, fibroids and the menopause to issues and complications in fertility, pregnancy and birth including miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth to gynaecological cancers.
An executive team, led by Janet Lindsay, undertakes day to day activities. The board is supported by separate investment and audit committees made up of trustees and independent members and our wholly independent Research Advisory Committee (RAC), 20 leading experts who advise on research strategy and rigorously review applications for board approval.
Read our recently launched Five-Year strategy.
Download our Annual Report and Accounts to 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Together, every member of Wellbeing of Women plays a vital part in safeguarding the future health of women, babies and their families.
He and a team of well-respected obstetricians, gynaecologists and business partners registered it as a charity later that year. In 1972, we changed our name to Birthright and in the 1980s, Diana, Princess of Wales, became an active and committed patron. We expanded our reach to all areas of women’s reproductive health, becoming Wellbeing of Women in 2004.
Professor Will Nixon establishes what will later become Wellbeing of Women
We establish the importance of taking folic acid during pregnancy
We discover that early contact between mothers and babies in intensive care is possible
A number of our projects establish the vital role of ultrasound in pregnancy in monitoring the health of the baby in the womb
We establish the use of laser treatment to remove abnormal cells in the cervix instead of cutting out the tissue
We develop a chemical (surfactant) that can help premature babies breathe and survive
We start important early research into monitoring and analysing foetuses’ heartbeats
We fund early work into a new method for identifying women at risk of osteoporosis which went on to be used routinely in HRT clinics
We test laparoscopy as a treatment for endometriosis
We begin research which leads to discovery of the link between HPV and cervical cancer
We fund research which brings about the first test to predict the outcome of IVF
We create the Baby Bio Bank, 7000 tissue samples from ‘trios’ consisting of a mother, father and baby, used for birth complications research
Our clinical trial results in use of BOTOX to treat overactive bladder syndrome
We establish international hub the Harris-Wellbeing Preterm Birth Centre to aid research into premature birth
We discover that taking vitamin D supplements could prevent pregnancy complications
We pioneer using high, targeted doses of radiation to treat patients with gynaecological cancers previously thought to be untreatable
We discover a potential non-surgical, non-hormonal cure for endometriosis