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Although there is a long history of collaboration between engineers and medical professionals in orthopaedics and cardiovascular medicine, there has been growing interest in the last decade for interdisciplinary collaborations in other areas of medical science. This growth is particularly true in the case of women’s health, a traditionally underserved area of research in the scientific community where fundamental knowledge of female physiology is still needed. Women’s health is a broad category encompassing reproduction, fertility, maternal health, normal and abnormal pregnancy, and the sequelae associated with a difficult childbirth. Women’s health also includes sex-associated pathology associated with cancer, pain, cardiac disease, osteoporosis, and other diseases. This list is not exhaustive with new scientific frontiers developing based on the evolving discourse of medicine for all.

This emerging body of work in some ways a consolidation of many diverse and independent researchers uniting under the umbrella topic of bioengineering in women’s health. This presents many opportunities for cross-pollination of knowledge across field boundaries and medical specialties.  We hope this website stimulates much discussion and future action to continue to apply bioengineering techniques in new areas for the improvement of human health, and here female health in particular.