Contemporary OB/GYN launches 'Missed & Dismissed' podcast to explore diagnostic gaps in women's health

There is no shortage of conversation about what needs to improve in women’s health. The harder question is, “What happens after we identify the problem?”

That question is part of the idea behind Missed & Dismissed: Closing the Diagnostic Gap in Women’s Health, a new monthly multimedia podcast from Contemporary OB/GYN hosted by Calbeth C. Alaribe, DMSc, MPH, PA-C, CPCHE, premiering September 28, 2026. The series will take a closer look at the spaces between what women experience, what clinicians recognize, what researchers have evidence to explain, and what healthcare ultimately does about it.

For Alaribe, those gaps are especially important because they rarely exist in isolation. A clinical problem may also be a research problem. A gap in the evidence may influence what clinicians know to look for. A diagnostic delay may reveal something larger about medical education, technology, access, policy, or the way healthcare itself is designed.

“I’m interested in connecting those dots. Women’s health doesn’t exist in one silo, and I don’t think the conversations about improving it should either.”

Alaribe is an ob-gyn hospitalist physician associate, published maternal health researcher, health equity strategist, speaker, and women’s health advisor. Her work spans clinical care, research, health equity, and healthcare innovation, giving her a vantage point into how the same problem can look very different depending on who is examining it.

That intersection helped shape Missed & Dismissed. Rather than approaching the diagnostic gap exclusively as a clinical issue, the podcast is designed to bring together perspectives that often remain in separate conversations. A clinician may see one part of a problem. A researcher may see another. A patient may experience something that has not yet been adequately captured in the literature. An innovator may be developing a tool intended to address it. An advocate or policymaker may be thinking about the larger system surrounding all of them.

“Some of the most interesting conversations happen when you bring together people who approach the same problem from completely different directions,” Alaribe said. “I don’t want every guest to think like me. I want people who can teach us something, challenge an assumption, introduce evidence we should be paying attention to, or make us look at a familiar problem differently.”

The conversations on Missed & Dismissed will move across clinical care, research, diagnostic innovation, health equity, medical education, technology, and the historical forces that continue to influence women’s healthcare. Some episodes may begin with a condition. Others may begin with a piece of research, an emerging technology, a clinical question, or an experience that exposes a much larger issue. What connects them is an interest in what happens between what we know and what we do.

Alaribe’s own research has reinforced the importance of asking questions about what is, and is not, represented in the evidence. Her work includes a 2026 published scoping review examining endometriosis and preeclampsia in Black women, part of a broader body of work focused on maternal and reproductive health. But Missed & Dismissed is intentionally broader than any single condition or research area.

“I want to be able to follow the question wherever it takes us,” Alaribe said. “Sometimes that may lead us into clinical practice. Sometimes it may take us into research, history, policy, technology, or innovation. I’m interested in what we can learn when we stop looking at these issues as separate conversations.”

Although Missed & Dismissed is presented in partnership with Contemporary OB/GYN, the audience is intentionally broader than obstetrics and gynecology. The original concept includes clinicians across disciplines, researchers, public health professionals, health technology leaders and investors, policymakers, advocates, journalists, and patients among the people invited into the conversation. The idea is not that any one group holds the answer, but that closing diagnostic gaps may require perspectives from people working at very different points across healthcare.

The first episode of Missed & Dismissed: Closing the Diagnostic Gap in Women’s Health premieres Monday, September 28

As for who will be sitting across from Alaribe in the first conversation? That reveal is still to come.

“I can say that the first episode takes us somewhere I think we need to go more often in women’s health: earlier,” Alaribe said. “I’m excited for people to hear the conversation, because it sets the tone for exactly what I want this show to be: curious, evidence-driven, honest, and willing to ask questions from more than one perspective.”

Missed & Dismissed: Closing the Diagnostic Gap in Women’s Health will premiere September 28, 2026, at this link.

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