An Act to establish a national framework for women’s health in Canada

Bill S-243 in 45-1 was a Senate Private Member's Bill respecting a national framework for women's health in Canada. Brought after the 2024 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) report found that approximately 30 percent of clinical-trial cohorts in Canadian-funded research still systematically under-represent women, and after the 2023 Heart and Stroke Foundation Women's Heart Health report found women in Canada are 50 percent more likely than men to receive a wrong cardiac diagnosis. The bill called for federal-provincial-territorial coordination on women's-health research funding through CIHR, expanded federal support for the Women's Health Research Institute (Vancouver), and a binding annual public report on sex-and-gender-based-analysis (SGBA+) implementation across federal departments.