Celebrating Men’s Health
Save the Date: October 20th, 2026
The Metropolitan Club
1 East 60th Street, New York City
Cocktails 7pm, Dinner 8pm
Our gala this year will focus on men’s health; we have always maintained that our Foundation was never intended to be devoted exclusively to women’s function and their experience of illness.
When we began our work 30 years ago, our knowledge of female physiology was essentially restricted to breast and reproductive health: a bikini view that assumed that the two sexes were otherwise identical. We had no idea of how unique every organ system in the body actually is as a function of biological sex.
As we accumulated new information, it was clear that men and women are vastly different in many respects. The study of women’s health was a gift to men: our work enabled us to have what is now a much more fully informed comparison of the unique features of both the normal function and the experience of disease of both sexes.
New questions have arisen:
- Why does coronary artery disease strike men a full decade earlier than it does women?
- Why did more men die of covid than did women—and why do many more women have long covid than do surviving men?
- And the most important of all: why do men die first?
Hopefully, the answers to new questions will improve the health of the whole human family. Come to our gala to help celebrate us generate those answers.
Your support helps advance the future of gender-specific medicine.
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