Women’s Health 2040 began as a participatory foresight process and has developed into a broader coordination architecture. This has resulted in The Nordic Charter for Women's Health 2040: A strategic framework designed to transform women’s health from a niche concern into a cornerstone of Nordic social and economic resilience. The Charter has been featured in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet.

Women’s Health 2040 began as a participatory foresight process and has developed into a broader coordination architecture. The Charter defines the shared vision. The Implementation Playbook translates that architecture into practical needs, institutional entry points and ways to assess whether knowledge is moving from research into innovation and care.

The framework is intentionally flexible. It does not prescribe a single implementation route or require one central coordination body. Instead, it allows ministries, research councils, healthcare systems, universities, innovation agencies, investors, patient organisations and civil society actors to use the parts most relevant to their mandate while still contributing to a shared Nordic direction.

Together, these layers turn a long-term vision into living infrastructure for change: one that can be cited, adopted, tested, refined and used by institutions across the Nordic region.

For CIFS, Women’s Health 2040 is also an example of applied foresight at its best. It helps a complex system see itself, name its future needs and coordinate action before the future arrives.