Women Living Better (WLB) improves the path to menopause through education and research.
Frustrated and confounded by her own experience with sleep and mood changes in her early 40s — which she now knows to be the beginning of perimenopause — Nina Coslov resolved to figure out why.
- Why hadn’t she known to expect changes associated with the path to menopause to begin while she was still getting a monthly period?
- Why didn’t her healthcare providers see these changes as related to perimenopause?
Once she started understanding the answers to these questions, she became determined to share what she learned to make it better for others. Nina, a former consultant and biotech program manager, dove into scientific research and connected with amazing experts, clinicians and researchers to get better answers. Many of these experts would become a part of the WLB advisor team.
The Team
Women Living Better’s work is shaped by a research team and advisors who bring decades of expertise in midlife women’s health, menopause care, epidemiology, gynecology, cardiology, nursing, endocrinology, and health advocacy. Their guidance helps ensure that WLB’s resources are grounded in sound research methodology, clinical experience, and women’s lived experiences.
History & Recognition
Women Living Better began in 2016 with a goal of translating what research tells us about the whole path to menopause, including the earliest phase that may begin before periods and menstrual cycles change significantly. In 2019, WLB established a research collaboration to help fill major gaps in knowledge about perimenopause. That same year, Nina Coslov discussed the state of perimenopause knowledge with Maria Shriver on the Today Show.
Nina received The Menopause Society’s Media Award in 2021, and from 2020 to 2023, WLB collaborators presented posters at the annual Menopause Society conference. WLB’s work has also been cited in The Lancet, covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, Healio, and MedPage Today, featured in a Williams College women’s conference reproductive health panel, and represented in public conversation through an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal.
WLB’s Origin Story
Women Living Better would not have been born if Jo McChesney, Nina’s good friend and co-founder, hadn’t been having a parallel experience with perimenopause while she too was in her early 40s and still getting a monthly period. Both Nina and Jo were told, “This can’t be perimenopause” by their healthcare providers, and it didn’t sit right with them.
Together, they created the Women Living Better website in 2018 to be the resource they couldn’t find — something in consumer-friendly language that explained what was happening to their bodies, what was causing their symptoms and what they could do to feel better.
Meet Nina Coslov, WLB’s Co-Founder
Nina Coslov started her career as a strategy consultant with The Monitor Group, now a part of Deloitte, where she learned how to tackle complex problems like why so little is known about perimenopause. After consulting, Nina was in program management at Genzyme (now part of Sanofi), leading drug development teams focusing on early-stage programs in Multiple Sclerosis, Cystic Fibrosis and IBD. Here she gained an understanding of scientific research and drug development.
Nina has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth where she captained the Women’s Ice Hockey team and a BA from Williams College. At Williams, she learned to play ice hockey and was a member of the club ice hockey team just before it became a varsity sport. She lives in Cambridge, MA with her husband, three children and their dog Crosby, named after the hockey player.
