The series
One conversation, carried to the rooms where capital is decided.
WORTH is Nuuma’s flagship series of private convenings on women’s health and capital. Each edition gathers the people who move money, policy and culture, in the places they already meet, around one investment question.
Edition 01
Convened
Martha’s Vineyard
August 13, 2026. Edgartown.
Black maternal health as an investment case, with the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility.
Edition 02
Next
Davos
January 2027.
Women’s health enters the global economic conversation, the week the world’s economic leaders gather in the Alps.
Edition 03
To come
The next city
To be announced.
WORTH travels to where capital is decided. Bring the next edition to your city.
The why
Black maternal health is not a charity case. It is an investment case.
The delivery room is where the consequences become visible, not where the story begins.
The health of Black mothers is shaped years earlier: by access, by policy, by who gets listened to and by who gets funded. That makes it an economic question, an infrastructure question and a capital question.
WORTH puts that question in front of the people who move money and make decisions. Nuuma brings the evidence, the founders and the women closest to the problem. The room brings the will to act on it.
$24.4B
McKinsey’s estimate of the economic value of closing the Black maternal health gap
350,000
healthier life years McKinsey links to closing that gap
50
CEOs, investors, founders, clinicians and cultural leaders in one room
Figures from the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility’s research on Black maternal health.
Our ethos
Health is capital.
WORTH is Nuuma’s flagship convening. It rests on one conviction: when women are healthy, families, companies and economies are stronger. Seven ideas shape every edition.
01
Health
Women’s health is the foundation of a strong economy, not a line item in it.
02
Capital
Money follows conviction. We bring the evidence that builds it.
03
Policy
The rules that shape care were written by people. They can be rewritten.
04
Investment
Maternal health is a market with returns, not a cause with a ceiling.
05
Innovation
Founders building better care belong in front of the people who can scale it.
06
Equity
The women the system fails most often set the agenda.
07
Community
Small rooms, real relationships and commitments that outlast the evening.
The prescription
Prescribe capital.
Women’s health has never lacked ideas. It has lacked funding. WORTH treats investment as the intervention: patient capital, delivered steadily, into the care that keeps women, families and economies well.
The dose. Capital, taken as directed.
The drip. Patient money, delivered over time.
Edition 01: Martha’s Vineyard, August 13, 2026
The $25 billion room.
Under a sailcloth tent on a private farm in Edgartown, Nuuma and the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility gathered about fifty CEOs, executives, investors, clinicians and founders during the week of McKinsey’s Black Economic Forum. One afternoon. One thesis: Black maternal health is an economic, infrastructure and capital issue.
Where
A private farm in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard
When
August 13, 2026
Who
About fifty leaders, by invitation
With
McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
The program
01
The investment case
Opening remarks on McKinsey’s research into the economic value of Black maternal health.
02
Listen to Me
Clips from a cinematic journey of maternal health, including Ebony’s Road to Motherhood.
03
Panel one: Before the Birth
Where Black maternal health begins, with Dr. Janet Choi of Progyny, Dr. Samantha Fessler of Needed and Lindsey Redd of Loula.
04
Birth Center Equity
Leseliey Welch on Beloved Birth 50 by 50.
05
Panel two: The Cost of Not Listening
Moderated by Dr. Kanika Harris, with Shanna Pearre of Sensori, Elizabeth Dawes Gay and La Keisha Landrum Pierre of Emmeline Ventures.
Heard under the tent at Edition 01
With thanks
Edition 01 was built in partnership with the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility.
Progyny
Needed
Loula
Sensori
Exclusive non-alcoholic beverage partner
Birth Center Equity
Cymbiotika
Rooted in Women’s Wellness
Edition 02: Davos.
January 2027. WORTH brings women’s health and capital to the week the world’s economic leaders gather in Davos. Seats are by invitation.