Research & partnerships
The evidence on workplace menopause interventions is thin. We intend to help change that.
The Menopause Society's 2024 consensus identified only a handful of published workplace intervention studies, most with methodological limits. Midlife Works is built to be evaluated — and we are looking for partners to do it properly.
What we measure
Outcomes we can honestly claim — and want to study.
Every program ships with pre/post knowledge and confidence instruments and an evaluation survey, administered anonymously and reported in aggregate. That gives us a consistent, program-level data foundation that a research partner can build on.
- Menopause knowledge
- Confidence seeking appropriate care
- Awareness of workplace resources
- Manager knowledge and confidence
- Perceived workplace support
- Training satisfaction and relevance
- Organizational readiness over time
- Implementation fidelity
Academic collaboration
Public health, nursing, health-education and organizational-behavior researchers interested in evaluating workplace menopause education — including UNC System institutions in our home region.
Program evaluation
Health systems and large employers that want a rigorous evaluation of their own rollout, designed with appropriate review and safeguards.
Funded research
Grant and cooperative-agreement opportunities where curriculum development, implementation or evaluation is fundable, pursued with eligible institutional partners.
Our research commitments
Ethics first.
- We do not collect identifiable employee health data for employers. Program instruments are anonymous and reported only in aggregate, never for groups smaller than five.
- Research involving human participants is submitted for IRB review or a formal determination before it begins.
- We distinguish program evaluation from research, and we distinguish established evidence from emerging findings in everything we publish.
- We will not claim that training reduces turnover or produces a specific return on investment unless appropriately designed evidence supports it.
- Findings — positive or not — are reported honestly, and partners share authorship and data-governance decisions.
Interested in evaluating workplace menopause education?
If you are a researcher, educator or health-system leader, we'd welcome a conversation about what a rigorous, ethical evaluation could look like.