Thank you. Yes, I will absolutely, happily, take that.
Yes, I agree 100%. As of now, only 7% of government and public funding goes to women-specific clinical health care and research. The ask right now is to build a national women's health data platform that will harmonize data across the country and give women a full picture of their health. That includes girls. It also includes gender-diverse populations.
Much to the topic you were talking about earlier, women are taking to AI, to social media and to Dr. Google daily to understand and diagnose their own health. Their health care practitioners are not even capable of doing that at present because there's no data; there is no information. That's where the opportunity and risk both lie.
If we can actually have the sex- and gender-disaggregated data that informs AI, we can model that and actually close the women's health gap in Canada. We really need investment and funding into more research.
