Consultancy: Global Scan for Women’s Health Product Innovation for LMICs

Department: Women’s Health

Location: Remote

LOE: Five Months

Timeline: October 2025 - February 2026

Reports to: Project Director, Women’s Health

Application Deadline: October 15th, 2025

Background

Around the world, the FemTech sector and women’s health innovators are generating breakthrough solutions — from novel contraceptives and diagnostic tools to menstrual health and pelvic care products. But most of these innovations are designed for high-income settings, with limited pathways to reach women in low- and middle-income countries. The result: a fragmented, inequitable landscape where the women who could benefit most are often last in line. 

Our vision is to create a living pipeline of promising women’s health innovations — spanning contraception, maternal health, diagnostics, menstrual products, pelvic health, and more — sourced from global femtech, early-stage VC portfolios, and leading innovators with a focus on adapting and scaling products for LMIC context. Working with innovators, we aim to adapt, optimize, and prepare products for scale.

We seek a consultant to lead a global scan that identifies high-potential innovations (in women's health), assesses their LMIC applicability, and provides actionable recommendations for funders and partners.

SCOPE OF WORK

Phase 1: Contraceptive and safe abortion.

• Conduct desk research and stakeholder interviews to scope product innovations in the FemTech space and innovations supported by VC/Impact investors.
• Provide insight and evidence on these innovations against a set of assessment criteria (will be provided) to evaluate feasibility, acceptance and potential in LMIC settings.

Deliverables:

• First draft summary of landscape and high-level recommendations (delivered in a word document or ppt) by end October
• Final output with full landscape and recommendations by end Dec 2025.

Phase 2: Wider remit of women’s health areas.

• Support the selection of adjacent women’s health areas based on the burden in LMICs and potential for product innovation.
  • Conduct analysis of available data on women’s health areas in LMICs.
  • Make recommendations for areas to focus.
• Within these health areas, conduct a global scan of women’s health innovations (most are focused on the US/EU markets) to identify those with the highest potential to deliver impact at scale in LMICs.
  • Develop a set of criteria to assess potential in LMICs.
  • Connect with existing networks and connectors in the space to map out the existing innovations (from Phase 1 CT to in-market).
  • For each health areas, provide a short list of potential innovations. Outline the rationale for their selection and highlight information gaps that may need to be filled.
• Research primary barriers and motivators for innovators to bring their products to LMICs.
  • Speak to innovators, network leaders and other stakeholders. Consolidate responses and create recommendations for how these might be overcome.
• Scope innovating funding models.
  • Landscape investment funders, VCs, directly working on fem tech, women’s health and product innovation in LMICs.
  • Hold information interviews to understand their motivators, barriers and opportunities for their investment in scaling women’s health product innovation in LMICs.

Deliverables:

• First draft summary of landscape and high-level recommendations (delivered in a word document or ppt) by end Dec 2025.
• Final output with full landscape and recommendations by end Feb 2026. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS (EVALUATION CRITERIA)

• Expertise in the field of women’s health, FemTech, product innovation and/or market shaping. Preference for someone with experience working with LMICs. (25%)
• A wide network of relevant experts, convening groups and other relevant contacts in this space. (25%)
• Ability to conduct robust, strategic analysis to provide a useful assessment. (25%)
• Strong communications skills. (25%)

APPLICATION MATERIALS

Applicants should submit their CV and a cover letter, indicate their salary requirements.

BACKGROUND ON PSI

Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to lead healthy lives and plan the families they desire.  We’re reimagining healthcare, developing health market systems where more consumer voices, at all income levels, are shaping the development of increased consumer choices - where technology-driven, affordable, quality drugs, devices, diagnostics and information move closer to peoples’ communities and homes.  We believe consumer-powered healthcare is a cost-effective sustainable path toward health for all without financial hardship.  

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