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Women’s Health & FemTech

Build products and research programs focused on women’s health across the lifespan: menstrual and hormonal health, fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and underdiagnosed conditions like endometriosis and PCOS.

cycle trackingmenopausematernal health
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Default learning track

4 phases · ~16–22 weeks

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1

Phase 1 — Foundations

3–4 weeks 30–40 hours

Build the conceptual and quantitative base needed to read papers and follow tutorials in the sector.

Prerequisites

  • Comfortable with basic biology / health-science vocabulary
  • Ability to install software and use a terminal

Skills you'll build

Python or R basicsLinux shellGit/GitHubReading scientific literature

Hands-on projects

Reproducible analysis notebook

Walk through a published tutorial in R + public reproductive-health datasets and reproduce its results on the provided sample data.

Deliverable: GitHub repo with a Jupyter/Quarto notebook, environment.yml, and README

Milestones

  • Set up reproducible Conda/Mamba environment and a public GitHub repo
  • Read and summarize 3 review papers covering the sector landscape
  • Complete an intro statistics or scripting course end-to-end
Citation · course
Epidemiology in Public Health Practice
Coursera · Johns Hopkins
Why: Related-topic match (Public Health & Epidemiology)
Dataset · tool
Nextstrain — real-time pathogen evolution
Nextstrain
Why: Related-topic match (Public Health & Epidemiology)
2

Phase 2 — Core tools & datasets

4–6 weeks 60–80 hours

Learn the standard analytical stack of the sector and the canonical public datasets used by professionals.

Prerequisites

  • Completed Phase 1 reproducible notebook
  • Working Python/R environment

Skills you'll build

R + public reproductive-health datasetsData wranglingQC & exploratory analysisVersion-controlled pipelines

Hands-on projects

Dataset deep-dive on NHANES + PRAMS + public cycle-tracking datasets

Pick one study from NHANES + PRAMS + public cycle-tracking datasets, reproduce the headline result, and write a short technical note on what you found.

Deliverable: GitHub repo + 3-page PDF write-up

Milestones

  • Run the official R + public reproductive-health datasets tutorial end-to-end on real data
  • Download and explore one full dataset from NHANES + PRAMS + public cycle-tracking datasets
  • Document a clean QC + analysis pipeline that another person could rerun
Citation · book
The Epidemiologist R Handbook
Applied Epi
Why: Related-topic match (Public Health & Epidemiology)
Dataset · dataset
WHO data portal
WHO
Why: Related-topic match (Public Health & Epidemiology)
3

Phase 3 — Applied projects

6–8 weeks 80–120 hours

Move from tutorials to original analyses on real questions. Start showing your work publicly.

Prerequisites

  • Phase 2 dataset deep-dive complete
  • Comfortable with the sector's primary tooling

Skills you'll build

End-to-end pipeline designStatistical interpretationScientific writingReproducible reports

Hands-on projects

FemTech evidence brief

Pick a women’s health condition: review the evidence base, analyse a relevant public dataset and propose a product or study concept.

Deliverable: Evidence brief PDF + analysis notebook + product concept

Milestones

  • Ship one original mini-analysis on a public dataset with clearly stated hypothesis and limitations
  • Engage with the FemTech Focus and Society for Women’s Health Research communities (post a question, answer one, or share a notebook)
  • Get peer feedback on at least one project and iterate
Citation · book
CDC Field Epidemiology Manual
U.S. CDC
Why: Related-topic match (Public Health & Epidemiology)
Dataset · dataset
IHME Global Burden of Disease
IHME
Why: Related-topic match (Public Health & Epidemiology)
4

Phase 4 — Portfolio & career launch

3–5 weeks 30–50 hours

Package your work, target real roles, and prepare to interview in the sector.

Prerequisites

  • Phase 3 capstone project shipped
  • 2+ public repos under version control

Skills you'll build

Technical CVPortfolio siteInterview prep (case studies + technical questions)Networking

Hands-on projects

Job-ready portfolio package

Curate 2–3 of your strongest sector projects into a portfolio site with clear case-study writeups, plus a 1-page CV tailored to the target role.

Deliverable: Live portfolio URL + PDF CV + cover letter template

Milestones

  • Publish a portfolio site or pinned GitHub README linking to 2–3 projects
  • Tailor CV to 3 real job ads in the sector and submit applications
  • Practice 5 mock technical interviews with sector-specific case studies
Citation · course
Python for Everybody
Coursera · Univ. of Michigan
Why: Related-topic match (Public Health & Epidemiology)
Dataset · tool
Nextstrain — real-time pathogen evolution
Nextstrain
Why: Related-topic match (Public Health & Epidemiology)

Curated learning resources

Verified, canonical resources from the official providers in this sector. The AI roadmap builder draws from this same library when it personalizes your roadmap.

Courses

Epidemiology in Public Health Practice
Coursera · Johns Hopkins
Python for Everybody
Coursera · Univ. of Michigan
LinkedIn Learning paths
LinkedIn

Trainings

Software Carpentry lessons
The Carpentries
Kaggle Learn
Kaggle

Documentations

Git & GitHub fundamentals
GitHub Docs

Tools

Nextstrain — real-time pathogen evolution
Nextstrain

Datasets

WHO data portal
WHO
IHME Global Burden of Disease
IHME

Books

The Epidemiologist R Handbook
Applied Epi
CDC Field Epidemiology Manual
U.S. CDC
R for Data Science (2e)
Hadley Wickham et al.

Typical career paths

Women’s Health Product Scientist

Translates reproductive-health science into validated digital and diagnostic products.

Maternal Health Researcher

Runs clinical and RWE studies on pregnancy, postpartum and maternal outcomes.

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