Health care

The CUSDF serves as a place where women can find clear, tailored responses grounded in gender-specific evidence.

The clinical component of the CUSDF is not intended to replace the existing network, but to provide an innovative solution to fill in the gaps and test care models that are fairer, more integrated, and better suited to women’s realities.

The community and social component includes personalized services to address physical, mental, social and cultural health needs, with the aim of maintaining health and preventing environment-related diseases.

Well-being

The Well-being cluster combines community spaces, empowerment, and secure pathways to care.

It serves as a key driver for maintaining health and supports prevention. It fosters trust and efficiency while providing the research, education, innovation, and telehealth clusters with data grounded in real-life experiences.

It integrates the three dimensions of health promotion:

Genetics – Environment – Lifestyle​

Research

The CUSDF positions itself as a place where we transform the way we think about women’s health, based on gender-specific evidence.​

The challenges faced cannot be addressed solely through better care; we need a different approach to conducting research, prioritizing it, and aligning it with women’s needs. ​

In the field of health—particularly for women, who have historically been marginalized—scientific credibility is non-negotiable.​

Research is the common foundation for all clusters: clinical care is based on gendered knowledge, innovation relies on identified findings and gaps, and education translates research findings into practice.

Education

The Education cluster structures the transmission of knowledge necessary for a sustainable transformation of women’s health.​

It integrates knowledge related to sex, gender, life trajectories, and social determinants into the initial and continuing education of health professionals, as well as stakeholders from various sectors. ​

It promotes the rapid transfer of knowledge into practice and equips professionals to address specific women’s health issues in an interdisciplinary manner.​

Innovation

Data exists in part, and findings have been repeated for decades, yet systems change little. The barriers are therefore organizational, cultural, and operational. ​

Innovation enables experimentation with new pathways, different care models, and new systems tailored to real needs.​

The CUSDF will distinguish itself through its ability to experiment rapidly, bridge disciplines and sectors, and involve patients, citizens, researchers, and communities in its projects.

Environment

The Environment cluster recognizes that women’s health is profoundly shaped by the environments in which they live, work, and interact.

The creation of an exposome research center specializing in women’s private, professional, and public environments will yield new knowledge—true key drivers of their health.

It serves both as a hub for translating scientific knowledge into practice and as a framework for experimenting with environments conducive to women’s health.​