Robin Strongin founded Disruptive Women in Health Care in September 2008. Here she reflects on why disruption in health care is not a metaphor — and what it takes to sustain it.
Sep 14, 2025
Expert Voices
Clinicians, researchers, and policy leaders challenging the conventional wisdom.
Health Perspectives
First-person accounts of navigating a health care system that too often fails women.
For years, Alia's migraines were undertreated and dismissed. Her story illustrates a systemic failure in how medicine approaches chronic pain in women.
Mar 11, 2026
Health Equity
Sonya Belin: When the Tests Come Back Normal and You Know Something Is Wrong
Sonya Belin
Sonya's experience of repeated ER visits, normal test results, and escalating symptoms is a case study in what women face when they know something is wrong and cannot get the system to believe them.
Dec 15, 2025
Kristen nearly died from postpartum preeclampsia — a condition most people have never heard of. She shares her story so that others will recognize the signs in time.
Dec 09, 2025
Fawn's endometriosis journey is also a story about race — and about what it takes for Black women to receive care for a condition that is already systematically undertreated.
Dec 03, 2025
Amy spent two years fighting for a menopause diagnosis while her life turned upside down. Her story is a case study in what happens when clinical training fails women at midlife.
Dec 02, 2025
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