Stéphanie van de Werve

Founder of Thémis

11 June 2026, at Le Fouquet’s, Paris

We were delighted to welcome Stéphanie van de Werve, founder of Thémis, the first European foundation dedicated to women’s health and committed to making it a priority in public policy and scientific research.

Women’s health has long been underfunded, under researched, and under prioritized, leading to misdiagnoses, unequal access to care, and systemic gaps affecting more than 200 million women in Europe. Thémis aims to address these structural inequalities by building the political, scientific, and civic infrastructure needed to drive lasting change.

Stéphanie presented Thémis’ main areas of intervention and highlighted several flagship initiatives, including:

• the Women’s Health Index, developed with Harvard researchers to measure infrastructures supporting women’s health across five European countries
• a national consultation designed as the first step toward a European agenda positioning women’s health as a public, economic, and political priority
• the development of programs that transform lived experiences into evidence, and evidence into structural policy change

Their work contributes to building a European coalition capable of advancing research, strengthening data infrastructure, and influencing public policy to finally make women’s health a collective priority.