Our Work

2026: Strengthening Community Connection & Informed Dialogue

In 2026, the Rowan Foundation is advancing its mission by deepening engagement with the communities most affected by women’s health and clotting risks, while continuing to emphasize evidence-informed education and clinical perspective. Building on recent collaboration with healthcare experts, the Foundation is focusing this year on creating meaningful opportunities for connection, dialogue, and shared learning among patients, families, clinicians, and advocates.

This work reflects a growing emphasis on community-informed insight, peer connection, and patient-centered approaches across women’s reproductive and hormonal health experiences. Through continued resource development and the thoughtful introduction of new engagement-focused efforts, the Foundation is working to support informed conversations, strengthen trust, and promote clearer understanding of blood clot risk within both clinical settings and everyday health decision-making.

This year, the Rowan Foundation is also implementing a new national writing scholarship program, including a first-of-its-kind scholarship for women affected by blood clots and/or clotting disorders pursuing an undergraduate degree in English or creative writing. In conncetion with this new program, the organization is also making a new web-based resource available for aspiring writers. This new resource can be viewed here.

Additional details about the Foundation’s new initiatives and resources in 2026 will be shared as they are introduced throughout the year.

2025: Expanding Collaborations to Improve Awareness & Outcomes

In 2025, the Rowan Foundation expanded its efforts by working with experts in women’s health and clotting to hold its Informed Choices Roundtable in collaboration with the University of Houston Student Health Center. New resources, including personal perspectives and Roundtable proceedings in both print and video formats, were shared by the Rowan Foundation to help document gaps in women’s health and clotting, particularly as they relate to contraception decision making. Also, we expanded our spectrum of resources with new educational videos and infographics focused on person-centered decision making related to women’s reproductive health and clotting.

View and download the Rowan Foundation 2025 Stewardship Report: 2025 Stewardship Report

2024: Focused on Potentially Life-Saving Insights

In 2024, the Rowan Foundation expanded its efforts with a focus on genetic testing in thrombophilia to help 1) increase blood clot risk identification 2) sharpen accuracy and expediency of blood clot diagnoses and 3) improve outcomes and save lives. The new resources stemming from this work, including web-based content and educational videos and infographics, are intended to increase the clotting community’s recognition of the emerging promise of genetic testing used to inform decision-making relative to women’s reproductive health, including contraception options, prethis is gnancy and childbirth, and the treatment of menopause symptoms with hormones.

View and download the Rowan Foundation’s 2024 Stewardship Report: 2024 Stewardship Report

2023: Recognizing the Rowan Foundation’s 10-Year Anniversary

In 2023, the Rowan Foundation recognized its 10-year anniversary, and realized significant gains associated with its communications and educational work. The organization unveiled its new “Women’s Health & Clotting Quarterly,” and also created an extensive suite of resources focused on contraception decision making.

View and download the Rowan Foundation’s 2023 Stewardship Report: 2023 Stewardship Report

2022: Sharpened Strategic Focus

In 2022, the Foundation sharpened its strategic focus, wholly revamped its communications and outreach efforts, and added a spectrum of new tools and resources to elevate the impact of its work.

View and download the Rowan Foundation’s 2022 Stewardship Report: 2022 Stewardship Report