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. This interest was furthered through a recent evaluation of women’s health commissioning, through a post as Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Policy Research Unit for Reproductive Health.
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.
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The 100 Questions Initiative – Women’s Health Innovation
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Involvement in The 100 Questions Initiative – Women’s Health Innovation run by The GovLab and colleagues at New York University and the European University Institute. As an expert community member I contributed to a Women’s Health Topic Map, submitting and refining questions, and prioritising a shortlist of key research questions, before participating in a public vote. The results can be found here. and the full blog provides more information.
Publications
- Daniel, K., Bousfield, J., Hocking, L., Jackson, L., & Taylor, B. (2025). Community Women’s Health Hub models in England: a mixed methods evaluation. BMC Primary Care, 26(1), 398.
- 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.
- Proffitt, E., Bousfield, J., Cockburn, N., Rogers, C., Jackson, L., Ncube, N., Munro, H., Ali, I., Pooke, V., Stevens, R., Hall, J., Davda, P., Holland, L., Coldham, T., Vincenti, O., Heera, N., Kyeremeh, M., Stephenson, J., & Taylor, B. (2026). Commissioning for women’s reproductive health in ICBs in England since the Women’s Health Strategy 2022 [Policy briefing report]. University College London.