{"id":28338,"date":"2024-11-20T00:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=article&#038;p=28338"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:36:17","slug":"fierce-foes-become-friends-for-the-greater-good-of-female-athlete-health","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/fierce-foes-become-friends-for-the-greater-good-of-female-athlete-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Fierce Foes Become Friends for the Greater Good of Female Athlete Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-2170235373-scaled-e1732791690884.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                20 Nov 2024                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Articles<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Fierce Foes Become Friends for the Greater Good of Female Athlete Health<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/open-access\/\" rel=\"tag\">Open Access<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/fierce-foes-become-friends-for-the-greater-good-of-female-athlete-health\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/fierce-foes-become-friends-for-the-greater-good-of-female-athlete-health\/&#038;text=Fierce Foes Become Friends for the Greater Good of Female Athlete Health\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: Fierce Foes Become Friends for the Greater Good of Female Athlete Health. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/fierce-foes-become-friends-for-the-greater-good-of-female-athlete-health\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/fierce-foes-become-friends-for-the-greater-good-of-female-athlete-health\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                                                            <p class=\"es-section__label es-label es-label--md\">The Global Alliance is a novel collaboration of some of sport\u2019s most decorated rivals.<\/p>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><h6>By Sarah Evans, Rachel Woodland &amp; Lottie Wright<\/h6>\n<h6>You might have thought that the UK Sports Institute, US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Australian Institute of Sport and High Performance Sport New Zealand were the fiercest of rivals and would be unlikely allies in sharing high performance practice and intelligence.<\/h6>\n<p>However, the quartet have formed an unlikely partnership for the good of female athletes across the globe and with the aim of pushing forwards advancements in female health research and practice.<\/p>\n<p>The result is the Global Alliance and, on our most recent Women\u2019s High Performance Sport Community call, we were joined by Dr Helen Fulcher from HPSNZ, Dr Amber Donaldson from USOPC, Dr Rachel Harris from the AIS, and Dr Richard Burden from UKSI, to discuss how it works.<\/p>\n<p>All four institutes have made their own way in providing additional focus and resource for female athlete health, starting at different points in time across the last ten years.<\/p>\n<p>All four have focused on education. The AIS, UKSI and USOPC have had further branches into research; HPSNZ have looked at processes and systems linked to technology; and the USOPC have had to consider partnerships that help navigate a geographically large country and complex health system.<\/p>\n<p>However, all four acknowledge that despite their positions of privilege there are limits to time and resource in this area, and all four are aware of what improving health for females, who typically suffer more injuries and illnesses than males, could do for raising levels of competition. The opportunity the group of four are close to bringing to reality is for an alliance to support globally with raising minimum levels of understanding when it come to female athlete health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The formation of the Global Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world of elite sport is quite small, so when travelling to conferences and talks on these spaces, the group realised that they are all doing the same things, with limited resources and time. So the premise of the Alliance is to combine resources and save time across the group. After all, as Burden asked, \u201cwhat\u2019s the point in spending lots of money people don\u2019t have on education resources when it already exists publicly?\u201d Whilst bumping into one another, the group organically had conversations on how they can work together to increase efficiencies without crossing boundaries of competition. &#8220;We are all under-resourced, we&#8217;re overstretched in terms of the time that we&#8217;re wanting to spend in this space,\u201d said Harris. \u201cWe really wanted to try and allow the people that are working in our sporting organisations to be more proactive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally seen as rivals, these organisations are now collaborating for the benefit of female athletes across the globe. The primary goal is to collaborate on female health initiatives, leveraging each organisation\u2019s expertise and resources. This collaboration aims to enhance the health and performance of female athletes by sharing knowledge and best practices across regions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Alliance\u2019s main objectives include\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sharing best practices and resources:<\/strong> \u201cYou can&#8217;t do everything on your own,\u201d said Burden, \u201cor your organisation can&#8217;t be everything to everybody.\u201d By pooling their collective knowledge, Alliance members can develop and implement the most effective health initiatives and signpost others towards the best practice or research already implemented by their colleagues in different regions. The dream is to be able to give people one place to come to, and then to be directed to other places. Ultimately, no individual person can be an expert in everything, and we should always remain open to the idea that someone might know more than we do.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benchmarking and baselining efforts:<\/strong> The goal, as Fulcher explained, is to \u201ccreate a baseline that is higher\u201d. Members of the Alliance will regularly assess and combine their efforts to ensure continuous improvement which, in theory, should result in healthier female athletes and higher levels of competition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Addressing misinformation:<\/strong> Simultaneously, the Alliance would ensure that accurate and reliable information about female health has the potential to reach all athletes, especially those in regions with limited access to such information. The group are passionate on making sure that the information available would be representative of the global athlete population, and therefore diverse, whilst being evidence-based. You want to be able to say \u201c\u2018as of now, this is the best way to treat X\u2019,\u201d said Donaldson. Athletes from different nations will also help spread accurate information about health topics, such as menstrual cycles and nutrition, through their platforms. The Alliance recognises the influence of social media and aims to create content that can be shared widely to reach a broader audience.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speeding up progress:<\/strong> As a collective the alliance can move practices along more quickly, be that through raising baseline levels faster, or by being able to increase sample sizes. \u00a0The group have an inherent belief that the collective is greater than the individual. They also want to make sure that as relatively well-resourced nations with greater access, they welcome in their colleagues in countries where access and resources may be more limited.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conducting collaborative research:<\/strong> One approach to speeding up progress would be to continue the research work that is currently happening in silos. There is potential in multicenter research projects, as Burden explained. He said: \u201cIf you can combine multicenter research, with those multicenters being in different countries around the globe, then you are naturally going to get a more diverse, rich database and, therefore, the insights that we&#8217;re going to be able to get from that are going to be just way more valuable for everybody\u201d. It\u2019s still a competitive environment. &#8220;We still absolutely want to beat all of the other people in the Alliance that we&#8217;re forming here on the medal table,\u201d said Harris, \u201cbut we certainly see that the things that we&#8217;re doing in this space are not about state secrets.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Providing a blueprint:<\/strong> The aim is to develop a central repository of trustworthy information to which athletes, stakeholders, and organisations can refer. It\u2019s not often that cross-country collaboration happens but, by bringing this Alliance together, a blueprint for collaboration, and how to \u2018do\u2019 it, can be created; from ideation to doing; sharing learnings as they emerge, especially when they are collaborating on an important topic area. They want to show how a collaboration can start and, ultimately, how to ensure longevity beyond the four current members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Alliance faces several challenges, including:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Getting things through layers of bureaucracy<\/strong>. The solution is commitment to sticking with it, but then being inventive with methods of information dissemination.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ensuring that the resources and information generated are visible and accessible to athletes and other stakeholders globally<\/strong>. This involves understanding and appealing to the way in which athletes take on and digest information. It will also require strategic communication and collaboration with local leaders and organisations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The need to combat misinformation<\/strong>. The alliance will provide rigorous, trustworthy information that cuts through the noise of inaccurate or misleading content. It will be able to share aligned messaging globally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Resources are not limitless<\/strong>. Hence the need to come together to collaborate and combine resources for a scale of economies effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Time is precious<\/strong>. In addition, the numbers of athletes going through some of the specific female health experiences can be quite small, so to learn and provide advancements could take much more time if each institute tried to do so on their own. The multicenter research projects should counter this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To be truly representative globally, the Alliance will have to grow to be culturally diverse and account for different languages and time zones. The group recognise that this will be a challenge and it might take grit and determination to make it happen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The alliance is committed to overcoming all of these challenges by building robust, reliable resources and ensuring they are effectively communicated and accessible to all athletes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A proactive and inclusive strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Global Alliance is a comprehensive approach to enhancing female athlete health that prioritises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Collaboration:<\/strong> The Alliance is built on shared values, humility, and a commitment to improving female athlete health through collective effort. &#8220;We&#8217;re all in exactly the same position and we&#8217;re all really wanting to do the same thing,&#8221; said Harris.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Education and resources:<\/strong> A key focus is on creating and sharing educational materials that are accessible and evidence-based. As Harris said: &#8220;We felt that by ensuring we could create some of these resources, they could put more of that time into looking after their athletes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Future vision:<\/strong> The Alliance is aiming for a sustainable, impactful approach that can adapt and grow to meet the needs of female athletes globally and improve female health for athletes. It wants to raise the standards of competition along the way and, through its multicenter research, increase the number and diversity of research participants and insights. The Alliance may not be everyone\u2019s answer, but could be a connector, with a central platform for sharing information gathered across the board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just start! <\/strong>If you&#8217;re working in a small organisation where you can&#8217;t produce education modules or you can&#8217;t fund research, there&#8217;s no harm in just starting a conversation. Build your own networks, forge connections, and don\u2019t be isolated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find people with the same values and intent. <\/strong>\u201cAnd that&#8217;s not to say that there is no kind of diverse thinking within our group,\u201d said Burden. \u201cBut the underpinning values within the Global Alliance and the work that we&#8217;re trying to do are all shared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s not about \u2018us\u2019 but a bigger purpose.<\/strong> Fulcher spoke of building communities within your area of expertise or within your own nation, but then taking that further. \u201cThat\u2019s within your specialty, within your area or your nation,\u201d she said. \u201cI think it&#8217;s a natural step to build an international community; and we do have them, but they&#8217;ve been a bit ad hoc.\u201d The Global Alliance is, as she added, an opportunity to raise standards across female sport. \u201cThe focus is not just on individuals having great connections but what can we collectively do better for this group of athletes that we all care about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay curious and be friendly<\/strong>. \u201cOne of the biggest things is to be humble,\u201d said Donaldson. \u201cReally coming to this platform being \u00a0humble and wanting to learn, wanting to contribute is key.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find out what works for <em>you<\/em>. <\/strong>You can learn from others but try to ascertain what works for you in your context too. Donaldson said: \u201cI can tell you exactly what we do, but you&#8217;re not going to be able to replicate it like for like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those in-person moments can be critical.<\/strong> \u201cThose in-person conversations can help build relationships,\u201d said Donaldson, who explained that the Alliance meets periodically. \u201cYou can also get more done when you have those conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Involve coaches in the education piece<\/strong>. Fulcher said: \u201cMake sure coaches feel comfortable enough so that if a certain issue is brought up, they know where to direct traffic and tell people where to go for help.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"col visibly-hidden col--flex-align-right\">\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":28344,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[400],"pathway":[375],"topic":[315,368,316],"sport":[300],"class_list":["post-28338","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-access","pathway-planning-and-delivery","topic-project-planning","topic-resource-planning","topic-strategic-planning","sport-olympic-paralympic-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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