Why Women’s
Health Is the
Investment
Opportunity
of Our Time
For decades, women’s health remained largely absent from mainstream investment frameworks despite representing substantial unmet healthcare needs and significant opportunities for innovation.
In The Billion Dollar Blindspot, institutional investor Maryann Selfe examines how gaps in research, data and capital formation made women’s health largely invisible to investors—and why scientific progress, demographic change and emerging commercial evidence are now bringing the opportunity into view.
The book offers investors, founders and healthcare leaders a framework for understanding how women’s health is evolving and what is required for capital to participate intelligently.
Maryann Selfe is an institutional investor and the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Calabar Capital. After more than two decades working across private banking, portfolio construction, investment risk and capital allocation, she now focuses on the investment infrastructure needed to connect long-term capital with opportunities in women’s health.
MoneyWeek Magazine
Women's health is not a niche but a foundational market in its own right. This book is both a must-read and a must-apply.
Professor & Global Consultant
I feel inspired to research women's health companies in which to invest. Your use of 'amputation' to describe a hysterectomy drives home the point.
Advance Reader
Research into medicine pertaining to women is sorely lacking. I thank you for taking on this important work to close the investment gap.
Advance Reader
An essential read for investors in healthcare. Selfe does a great job of marshalling insights from her own experience to highlight the status quo.