Somi Javaid MD

Board-certified OBGYN
Female Sexual Health Expert
Expert
Founder of
Entrepreneur and TedX Speaker
Healthcare Advocate

I am a board certified OBGYN specializing in sexual health menopause, general gynecology, minimally invasive surgery, laser surgery and ultrasound. I founded HERmd in 2015 with the mission to revolutionize women's healthcare and to educate, advocate for, and empower women.

09/08/2025

We don’t need more “pinkwashed” wellness trends. We need real investment in women’s health - in the tools, diagnostics, and treatments that change lives.

This month I’m naming what’s holding us back:

🚫 Investors who still see women’s health as “niche”

💸 Capital gaps that stall companies before they can scale

💡 Missed opportunities to back solutions that serve real women, not just the status quo

The future is female and this time, it’s funded.

What’s one innovation in women’s health you wish investors would finally pay attention to?

09/05/2025

Women’s health is a $1T+ opportunity, and we’re just getting started.

Too often, it’s dismissed as “niche.” Menopause is ignored. Male-led startups with less traction get more funding.

But here’s what we know:
➡️ Women are not a subcategory of medicine.
➡️ Menopause isn’t a moment. It’s a market.
➡️ Investing in women’s health is investing in the future of healthcare.

The landscape is shifting, and we’re leading the change.

Whether you're an investor ready to fund the future or a patient ready for care that actually centers you, we’re building this for you.

09/04/2025

Hot flashes, experienced daily by 87% of menopausal women, originate in the brain due to a hypersensitive hypothalamus reacting to dropping estrogen levels. The symptom is a full-body neurological event, often involving heart palpitations, chills, anxiety and a subsequent wave of fatigue, not just h...

08/10/2025

Grief isn’t weakness.
It’s what happens when you poured your entire heart into something, and had to let it go.

That kind of pain?
It means you showed up. You fought for it. You gave it everything.

This is for the founders grieving the thing they built.
The version of themselves they outgrew.
The sacrifices no one else saw.

📌 Tag a founder who needs this today.

08/07/2025

Only 2.3% of healthcare funding goes to women-led startups.
That stat isn't just outrageous, it's dangerous.

Because when we underfund women, we underfund innovation, equity, and entire patient populations.
We’re not just building companies, we’re rebuilding a broken system.

I know what it costs to build in the 2.3%.
And I’m doing it anyway. With less capital, more fire, and zero apologies.

Let this be a rally cry for investors, partners, and changemakers.

08/06/2025

Only 4% of healthcare funding goes to women-led startups.
That stat isn't just outrageous, it's dangerous.

Because when we underfund women, we underfund innovation, equity, and entire patient populations.
We’re not just building companies, we’re rebuilding a broken system.

I know what it costs to build in the 4%.
And I’m doing it anyway. With less capital, more fire, and zero apologies.

Let this be a rally cry for investors, partners, and changemakers.

08/04/2025

Let’s be clear:
I didn’t build HerMD to be the first woman in the room.
I built it so women could own the room.

Being first looks glamorous from the outside.
But it costs visibility without support.
Success without safety.
It’s carrying the weight of representation and revolution, at the same time.

But I’d do it again.
Because being “the first” isn’t the end goal, it’s the opening move.

If you’re a woman building something from the ground up:
Keep going. The system wasn’t built for you, but the future will be.

08/02/2025

GRIEF. For what we lost. For what we never had. For the care that wasn’t there when we needed it most.

GROWTH. The kind that burns before it blooms. The kind that comes when you demand better—for yourself, for others.

GRIT. The quiet kind. The get-back-up kind. The kind every woman carries, whether she says it out loud or not.

We’re told to “power through” in healthcare.
To keep it polished. Push past pain.

But what if this month, we let it breathe?

What’s your version of grief, growth, or grit right now?

Drop a word, a story, a moment below. 👇

Let’s talk about what it really takes to heal systems, shift narratives, and keep going even when it hurts.

Because behind every visionary is a story of survival.

And yours matters too.

07/21/2025

🚨 The system wasn’t broken.
It was built this way, without women in mind.

From s*xual pain to menopause, women are dismissed, misdiagnosed, and underserved. Not because the science doesn’t exist, but because equity never did.

At HerMD we’re not tweaking the old model.
We’re building a new one.

✨ Tech that expands access
✨ Protocols built for women’s bodies
✨ A care model that scales equity, not just services

This is innovation with a purpose:
To shift power, rewrite the narrative, and demand better.

👊🏽 If you’ve ever felt dismissed, this is your reminder: it’s not all in your head.
And you deserve better care.

📌 Save this. Share it. Start asking bigger questions.

07/18/2025

What happens when women don’t get hormones?

That question is finally getting attention thanks to the physicians, researchers, and advocates who brought their voices to yesterday’s FDA panel.

To everyone who showed up for women’s health in that room: thank you.
Your voices are shifting the conversation, and exposing the long shadow cast by decades of fear and misinformation.

We now know:
— Localized estrogen does not increase the risk of dementia, stroke, or breast cancer
— Systemic estrogen reduces all-cause mortality by over 30%
— Estrogen is the only therapy shown to reduce fracture risk by up to 50%
— Testosterone is not just about s*x. It supports mood, memory, and cognition
— Vaginal estrogen can prevent 50% of UTIs
— And yet, only 4% of eligible women are on hormone therapy

This is real data.
It’s time our labels, policies, and care models reflect it.

As a physician, I’ve seen what happens when women are denied access to the truth.
As a founder, I’m here to change that.

Let’s rewrite the label. Let’s change the story.

🎥 Missed the FDA’s menopause panel?
Watch the replay — link in my bio.
This conversation matters more than ever.

07/08/2025

Legacy isn’t about titles, tenure, or tradition. It’s about building what didn’t exist, because it had to.

I didn’t become a founder to play it safe. I became a founder to fix a system that was never built for women, especially in s*xual health and menopause care.

Innovation IS legacy.
And I’m not here to be the exception. I’m here to change the standard.

Tag a woman who’s not waiting for permission to rewrite what healthcare, or leadership, looks like. ⚡

07/06/2025

Healing isn’t just for our patients.

Building HerMD has taken everything I’ve got, vision, grit, sacrifice. But here’s the truth we don’t say enough: we can’t disrupt healthcare while ignoring our own. Nature has a way of reminding us to slow down, breathe deeper, and reclaim joy outside the grind.

This isn’t retreating. It’s recharging, for the next fight, the next pitch, the next revolution in women’s health.

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Cincinnati, OH

Telephone

+15134044166

Website

http://drsomi.com/, https://hermd.com/team/dr-somi-javaid-md/

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