The Women's Health Portal Norway

On the new Women's Health Portal, you will find safe, research-based knowledge about women's health, without any adverts or commercial content. Illustration photo: iStockphoto

We are currently building the Women's Health Portal

The website is not launched yet. This is an informational page about the website, which in Norwegian will be called kvinnehelse.no.

Take a sneak peek at the website here!

Do you have input for the work, or are you planning to apply for funding through The Research Council of Norway on women's health? Get in touch with us!

E-mail: kvinnehelse@ous-hf.no, or contact project manager Elin Rekdal Müller (99712129)

Download onepager for researchers about the portal (pdf)

What is the Women's Health Portal Norway?

The Women's Health Portal will become a national knowledge portal on women's health and the significance of sex and gender for health. The aim is to make research-based and quality-assured knowledge easily accessible to patients, relatives, healthcare professionals, researchers, students, decision-makers and other interested audiences.

Why is the portal being developed?

The portal is based on the need for more knowledge about women's health and sex and gender differences in health, highlighted in the Norwegian Official Report The Great Difference (2023) and the government's women's health strategy. It will gather and communicate research and professional knowledge in a safe and understandable way.

Who is behind the work?

The assignment has been given by the Ministry of Health and Care Services to the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority and the Norwegian National Centre for Women's Health Research, in collaboration with Kilden genderresearch.no at the Research Council of Norway. The Norwegian Women's Public Health Association and professional communities contribute user perspectives and specialist knowledge.

How are we working now?

The work is under way. We are developing the structure, content and technical solutions that will make reliable knowledge about women's health easy to find and understand.

Procurement, suppliers and funding

The contract to develop the portal was signed on 1 December 2025 with the design and technology agency Increo and Bureau, specialists in branding and communication, following a public procurement process led by Sykehusinnkjøp. The contract runs for three years and has a value of NOK 5 million.

The funding will be used to develop an advertising-free portal with reliable, research-based knowledge.

What are the key challenges in women's health?

Women's health concerns both health challenges specific to women and how sex and gender affect health, disease, diagnosis and treatment. Key challenges include:

- knowledge gaps about diseases and conditions that particularly affect women
- too little attention to sex and gender perspectives in research, treatment and education
- reliable knowledge does not always reach those who need it
- advertising, uncertain information and disinformation make it difficult to find good sources

The portal will gather up-to-date, research-based knowledge in one place.

Read about the background for the women's health portal here:

History of the Women's Health Portal (Norwegian only)

Read more about women's health

For questions, please contact:

Project manager for the Women's Health Portal, Ann-Kristin Selmer, at the Norwegian Centre for Women's Health Research by phone 920 13 212, or e-mail anselm@ous-hf.no.

Project manager for the Women's Health Portal, Elin Rekdal Müller, by phone 99712129, or e-mail erml@forskningsradet.no.

The National Centre for Women's Health Research

The Norwegian Centre for Women's Health Research is a national research environment that aims to develop and increase knowledge about women's health in a life-course perspective. The centre does this with research, professional development and dissemination. The centre will conduct research on the prevention and treatment of diseases and ailments that primarily affect women, occur more frequently in women, and that affect women differently than men. The centre disseminates new research through the Women's Health Podcast, the Women's Health Blog, news articles, seminars and courses for health professionals.

Kilden genderresearch.no

Kilden is a national knowledge centre for gender perspectives and gender balance in research, and is an academically independent department of the Research Council of Norway. We disseminate new research through news articles, podcasts, seminars and conferences, in addition to producing knowledge overviews and developing digital content either on our own initiative, or on behalf of others.

The Norwegian Women's Public Health Association

The Norwegian Women’s Public Health Association promote women's health and living conditions, contribute to an inclusive upbringing and create safe local communities. The association does this through volunteering, research, political influence and non-profit organizations. The Association is Norway's largest women's organization with 44,000 members divided into 550 local associations.

The Government's Women's Health Strategy

NOU 2023 5: The big difference. On women's health and the importance of gender for health (2023) (Norwegian only)

The report What do we know about women's health? Can be downloaded as a PDF (Norwegian only)