Former First Lady Jill Biden has landed her first gig since leaving the White House.

In a new press release, the Milken Institute, a left-leaning nonprofit organization, announced it would create the “Women’s Health Network” and that Jill Biden would serve as its chair.

In response to her new position, Jill Biden shared, “I am honored to join the Milken Institute as we unite leaders around a shared mission: for women everywhere to benefit from the lifesaving, world-changing research we know is possible.

According to its site, The Women’s Health Network will “serve as a global collaborative to collate, elevate, and advance existing and new efforts across the women’s health ecosystem.”


Per The Milken Institute:

While women make up half the U.S. population and nearly half the workforce, women’s health has faced decades of underinvestment, which is critical for wider economic productivity. Today, the Milken Institute announced the launch of the Women’s Health Network to serve as a global collaborative to collate, elevate, and advance existing and new efforts across the women’s health ecosystem. The Milken Institute has also announced that Dr. Jill Biden, the former First Lady of the United States, has joined its new Women’s Health Network as Chair.

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A renowned champion for women’s health, Dr. Biden will play an important role in galvanizing participation, collaboration, and shared action in the Women’s Health Network to improve women’s health and wellbeing. This appointment follows Dr. Biden’s leadership on the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, a first-of-its-kind effort that fundamentally changed how our nation approaches and funds research on women’s health.

“From endometriosis to healthy aging, the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research made important investments in research and development, while making clear it will take collaboration across industries to bring these innovations to scale,” said Dr. Biden. “I am honored to join the Milken Institute as we unite leaders around a shared mission: for women everywhere to benefit from the lifesaving, world-changing research we know is possible.”

The Women’s Health Network will drive innovation by providing resources and promoting collaboration among key stakeholders, including research institutions, start-ups and entrepreneurs, corporations and businesses, investors, payers, policymakers, patient and community organizations, health systems, and philanthropists.

Here’s what The Daily Caller reported:

Former first lady Jill Biden has found a new gig in the swamp, working for the Milken Institute on women’s health issues, according to a press release.

The Milken Institute, a center-left nonprofit organization, announced on Tuesday that it would be launching a new “Women’s Health Network.” Jill Biden will serve as the chair of the initiative.

Under its new “Women’s Health Network,” Biden and the Milken institute will aim to promote research and development of services for women “by elevating existing and new efforts across the women’s health ecosystem,” the press release reads.

Biden holds a doctorate in education with a dissertation entitled “Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students’ Needs.” She spent most of her post-college career teaching English, but founded the Biden Breast Health Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about breast cancer, in 1993.

While serving as first lady, Biden continued teaching English and writing courses at Northern Virginia Community College. “The Milken Institute is grateful for Dr. Biden’s leadership during her tenure in the White House and her steadfast commitment to championing investment in women’s health. We are so pleased she will join us as we launch and grow the Women’s Health Network,” Esther Krofah, executive vice president of Milken Institute Health, said in the press release.

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“Data shows that women’s health faces persistent underinvestment in research and innovation across many disease conditions that affect women uniquely, differently, or disproportionately. However, we know progress is possible and it can be achieved through partnerships in the Network that can transform women’s health and well-being for years to come,” Krofah continued.

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