Maven Clinic has announced the launch of Onward, a new annual industry summit bringing together leaders working across women’s and family health. The inaugural event will take place in New York City on 30 September.
The summit will bring together benefits leaders, health plan executives, clinicians and healthcare innovators to discuss the changes shaping women’s and family healthcare. Among those expected to attend are leaders from Fortune 500 employers, health plans and healthcare companies, alongside Maven executives, clinical experts and members.
Maven said the event comes at a time when employers are facing the highest projected increases in healthcare costs in more than 15 years, while women’s and family health is becoming an increasingly important part of benefits strategy.
The programme will focus on a number of developments across the sector, including changing fertility and IVF coverage policies, advances in prenatal genomics, new approaches to maternity reimbursement, AI-enabled care and the growing use of GLP-1 medicines. Discussions will also examine menopause and hormone care, personalised medicine and how employers and health plans can measure clinical outcomes and return on investment.
The event will be headlined by actress, mother and breast cancer advocate Olivia Munn. Following her breast cancer diagnosis in 2023, Munn has become an advocate for early detection and cancer risk assessment. Her diagnosis followed an assessment of her lifetime cancer risk that went beyond routine screening.
Maven Clinic founder and Chief Executive Kate Ryder said the most difficult challenges in women’s and family health require collaboration between those building, purchasing and delivering healthcare.
The company currently works with more than 2,300 employers and health plans, including Amazon, Microsoft and AT&T, and says its services reach more than 28 million covered lives globally.
Onward will build on Maven’s work with employers and health plans over the past decade, as the company looks to bring together healthcare leaders to examine how women’s and family health can evolve over the coming years.
