Rewriting the Rules of Women’s Health: Power, Policy, and Patient Voice

Amplify: A Podcast Powered by Patient Voice Partners · May 22, 2026 · 35m · transcript

Episode Summary

In this powerful episode of Amplify, Carmen Wyton joins Ursula Mann and Anne Marie for a bold conversation about the invisible gaps in women’s healthcare — and the movement to change them.

Carmen shares how her experience listening to women with uterine fibroids, many of whom waited over a decade for diagnosis and treatment, sparked the creation of the Women’s Health Coalition of Alberta, which later evolved into the Women’s Health Coalition of Canada.

Together, they unpack the systemic biases that have historically reduced women’s health to “bikini medicine,” discuss the…