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Women in Health Innovation Spotlight: Dr. Sophia Yen

Sophia Yen, MD, MPH, is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Pandia Health, the only women-founded, women-led, physician-founded, and physician-led birth control and menopause asynchronous telemedicine and medication delivery service in the United States. The idea for Pandia Health came after Dr. Yen spent time researching the reasons why women didn’t take birth control and found accessibility to be a key issue. Pandia Health has served thousands of patients across the U.S., aiming to make reproductive healthcare more accessible, convenient, and stigma-free.

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Women in Health Innovation Spotlight: Dr. Renu Bhatia

With over 25 years of experience in health care, finance, financial technology, and more, Dr. Renu Bhatia is currently the Chairman of The Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Chairman and Co-Founder of Opharmic Technology, Hong Kong, and the Independent Non-Executive Director of HutchMed, a commercial-stage, biopharmaceutical company.

Born in India and raised in London, Dr. Renu Bhatia has lived and worked across three continents. She moved to Hong Kong from New York over 30 years ago and now calls the city home. Trained as a medical doctor in the UK, she began her career working in the National Health Service before realizing her passion lay in understanding the broader systems behind clinical decisions—what she called "the economics of healthcare." This curiosity led her to pursue an MBA at Yale University.

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Women in Health Innovation Spotlight: Judith B. Farquhar

Judith Farquhar is currently the Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and in the College, Emerita, at the University of Chicago. Trained as a medical anthropologist, Farquhar’s research focuses on traditional Chinese medicine and its social and cultural contexts. She authored Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine (1994), which examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China, as well as five other books, the most recent being A Way of Life: Things, Thought and Action in Chinese Medicine (2020).

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