Center for Young Women's Health

What Center for Young Women's Health does

The Center for Young Women's Health (CYWH), established in 1998, is a nonprofit educational program operating as a collaboration between the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and the Division of Gynecology at Boston Children's Hospital. Headquartered at 333 Longwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Boston, MA, it provides clinician-reviewed health information, moderated community spaces, and educational programs serving young women, gender minorities, and their parents globally (the organization self-reports reaching millions of teen girls and young women worldwide). The program is led by Co-Directors Dr. Marc R. Laufer (Chief of Gynecology at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School professor) and Dr. Amy Desrochers Divasta (Chief of Adolescent Medicine), with emeritus co-founders Dr. S. Jean Emans and Phaedra Thomas-Kowal RN.

CYWH's product surface is built on a web-based content platform with CMS, online chat infrastructure, email newsletter (e2ma) and social media integration (Facebook, Instagram), plus event management (Eventbrite) for conferences. Core products include: condition-specific Health Guides (gynecology, sexual health, medical conditions, emotional health, nutrition and fitness); the asynchronous Ask Us Q&A service; monthly moderated Online Health Chats for teens with Endometriosis, PCOS, and MRKH and parents of teens with MRKH; two annual in-person conferences (MRKH in its 19th year and Endometriosis); the quarterly Teen Talk newsletter; the Youth Advisory Program training urban high school students as peer educators; free Print Publications as downloadable PDFs; and dedicated parent and clinician content sections. Content is available in English, Spanish (Guías de la Salud), and Portuguese (Dicas de Saúde). The Boston Center for Endometriosis, a joint initiative with Brigham and Women's Hospital, extends CYWH into clinical research.

CYWH has no commercial revenue. All content is provided free of charge. The program is funded through donations, charitable grants, and corporate contributions from a diversified base that includes the Boston Children's Hospital League, Cabot Family Charitable Trust, Comcast Foundation, Maternal Child Health Bureau, HHS Office on Women's Health, Children's Hospital Boston Community Child Health Fund, The Junior League of Boston, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, AOL Foundation, CooperSurgical, General Service Foundation, Organon (now part of Merck), Personal Products Company (Johnson & Johnson subsidiary), TAP Pharmaceuticals (Takeda), Warner Lambert Parke-Davis (Pfizer), and Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals. "Center for Young Women's Health" is a registered trademark of Boston Children's Hospital.

Name

Center for Young Women's Health

Legal name

Center for Young Women's Health

Website

https://youngwomenshealth.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Center for Young Women's Health is a nonprofit educational program of Boston Children's Hospital, founded in 1998, that delivers clinician-reviewed health information, moderated online chats, annual conferences, and multilingual guides to young women, gender minorities, and parents globally via youngwomenshealth.org.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Adolescent Health Education

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Child and Youth Services (624110)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Sexual & Pelvic Health Telehealth (STI care, pelvic pain, endometriosis/PCOS support) (HLALAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Teen/Young Adult Educational Nonfiction (College/Career, Health, Civics) (EDAGAIAI), Family & Pediatric Direct-to-Consumer Virtual Care (HLALAAAI), Telehealth & Digital Wellness Services (EDALAFAM)

Keywords

• Adolescent health education
• Young women's health resources
• Pediatric gynecology information
• Online health chats
• Patient education guides

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Support: The organization operates as a nonprofit educational entity supported by donations and grants from foundations and individual contributors. Content is provided free of charge to users worldwide.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The Center for Young Women's Health (CYWH) provides free, expert-reviewed adolescent health education through a web-based platform offering Health Guides across topics such as gynecology, sexual health, nutrition, and emotional health; an anonymous Ask Us Q&A service; moderated monthly Online Health Chats for teens with Endometriosis, PCOS, and MRKH; annual in-person conferences (MRKH and Endometriosis); the Teen Talk newsletter; free PDF print publications; and a Youth Advisory Program. Content is delivered in English, Spanish, and Portuguese to a global audience of teens, young women, parents, and clinicians, under the institutional backing of Boston Children's Hospital.

Product overview

The Center for Young Women's Health (CYWH) is an educational entity providing a comprehensive digital health education platform for young women and members of gender minorities. The organization operates as a collaboration between the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and the Division of Gynecology at Boston Children's Hospital. The core offering consists of Health Guides (evidence-based health information reviewed by Boston Children's Hospital clinicians), the Ask Us Q&A service, Online Health Chats (moderated condition-specific sessions for Endometriosis, PCOS, and MRKH), annual conferences (MRKH Conference and Endometriosis Conference), the Teen Talk Newsletter, Youth Advisory Program, and Print Publications. Content is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, with dedicated resources for parents and clinicians. The platform serves adolescents of all genders globally, with a focus on carefully researched, expert-backed health education.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Health Guides
• Ask Us
• Online Health Chats
• MRKH Conference
• Endometriosis Conference
• Teen Talk Newsletter
• Youth Advisory Program
• Print Publications
• Parent Articles / Guías de los Padres
• For Clinicians
• Guías de la Salud (Spanish Health Guides)
• Dicas de Saúde (Portuguese Health Tips)
• Endometriosis Research

Quantifiable outcome

• Millions of teen girls and young women worldwide served with health education

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and general.

• Boston Children's HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent institution and primary organizational partner. CYWH is a collaboration between the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and the Division of Gynecology at Boston Children's Hospital. Provides clinical staff, facilities, and institutional support.
• Brigham and Women's HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner institution for the Boston Center for Endometriosis, a joint project between Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Laufer serves as reproductive endocrinologist at this institution.
• Harvard Medical SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTeaching affiliate providing academic leadership and research collaboration. CYWH leadership holds professorships at Harvard Medical School.
• Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children's HospitalgeneralStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative initiative at Boston Children's Hospital focused on media and health research. CYWH links to their resources for parents on media education.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Boston Center for Endometriosis: Joint BCH/Brigham and Women's clinical research program led by CYWH's Co-Director Dr. Laufer. Comparable as the clinical-research counterpart to CYWH's patient-education work on endometriosis.
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): National professional association offering physician and patient education across women's health. Comparable as an authoritative women's-health publisher, though broader in scope and professional rather than teen-targeted.

Direct peers

• KidsHealth (Nemours Children's Health): Hospital-affiliated pediatric health information platform providing expert-reviewed content for kids, teens, and parents. Closest comparable by mission, delivery model (free website, multilingual content), and clinical backing structure.
• Power to Decide: Non-profit focused on preventing unplanned pregnancy and advancing reproductive well-being for young people. Comparable by audience, non-commercial model, and digital-first health education delivery.
• Bedsider: Power to Decide's direct-to-consumer birth control support network serving young women. Comparable as a free, digital-first reproductive health resource for the same demographic with strong content and community features.
• HealthyChildren.org (American Academy of Pediatrics): Official parenting and child health information site of the AAP, offering pediatrician-reviewed health content for families. Comparable as an authoritative, non-commercial pediatric/adolescent health education platform backed by a major clinical institution.
• Advocates for Youth: Non-profit advancing adolescent sexual and reproductive health through education, advocacy, and youth leadership. Comparable as a mission-aligned adolescent health education and peer-engagement organization.
• Scarleteen: Independent non-profit providing inclusive sex, sexuality, and relationships education for teens and young adults. Comparable in audience (teens 13–22), free delivery model, and focus on stigmatized topics with moderated community features.
• Center for Young Men's Health (Boston Children's Hospital): Sibling site of CYWH under Boston Children's Hospital, providing adolescent male health information in the same editorial format. Directly comparable by organizational structure, content model, and hosting institution.
• Sex, Etc. (Answer/Rutgers): Sex education resource by Answer at Rutgers, providing teen-written, expert-reviewed sexual health content. Comparable in audience, editorial process combining youth voice with clinical review, and free distribution model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/CYWH
• Facebookfacebook.com/C4YWH
• Instagraminstagram.com/bch_cywh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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