Dr. Jenny BousfieldFreelance Research & Evaluation Consultant
Women’s Health
The health of women has been an interest of mine for many years, reflected in my choice of PhD and recent written outputs around Women’s Health Policy. Working on the first national evaluation of Women’s Health Hubs as part of BRACE has fostered a keen interest in these hubs and the integration of women’s health services, and I continue to be involved in development of Women’s Health Hubs through a current evaluation of women’s health commissioning, through a post as Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Policy Research Unit for Reproductive Health.
Keeping a keen eye on the influence of policy changes, I am currently working on a piece ‘translating’ what the 10-year plan may mean for the health of women. The output of this will be an accessible short piece enabling engagement with developments in this area and supporting the monitoring of progress towards the ambitions of the Women’s Health Strategy.
Projects
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Policy Research Unit on Reproductive Health (RH-PRU) – Commissioning for Women’s Reproductive Health Across the Life Course
Senior Research Fellow (Warwick Business School)
More infoThis research project looks at how different areas of England are commissioning women’s health to improve care and follow the recommendations of the Women’s Health Strategy. The aim is to find out how ‘commissioning’ of women’s health services is working in England since the Women’s Health Strategy was published. It involves working with women, commissioners and people who work in healthcare and will use what we find to make suggestions that can be used to help people responsible for women’s health services to do more of ‘what works’ to improve the health and care of women in England.
Publications
- Jennifer Bousfield, Stephanie Stockwell, Sonja Marjanovic. (2025). Women’s health at a junction in policy and practice: Where next? RAND Europe.
- From period pain to heart disease, the gender health gap is real – here’s how to close it. The Conversation. (2025).
- Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: Addressing Barriers to Effective Care RAND Europe (2025)
- Daniel, K., Bousfield, J., Hocking, L., Jackson, L., & Taylor, B. (2024). Women’s Health Hubs: a rapid mixed methods evaluation. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 12(30), 1-138.