Get in touch.

For questions, research collaborations, corrections, or feedback, the best way to reach us is by email at vla2117@columbia.edu. We read everything.

A detailed account of how Whel was conceived and built is available in the project write-up on Substack, which is also where occasional updates about new conditions and pipeline changes are posted.

You can also follow the project on LinkedIn for shorter updates and to get in touch there.

Whel was built by two people. Veronica Agudelo is an undergraduate student at Columbia University who came to this work through a personal experience with a hormonal condition, a brain surgery, and a long stretch of late-night PubMed reading. The project's clinical grounding comes from her mother, a practicing psychiatrist who has spent much of her career thinking about women's hormonal conditions and who brought what she calls a “two-arm data strategy” to how the evidence here is organized.

Neither of us is selling anything. Whel is free, open, and not a monetization project. The fuller story is on the About page.

Whel is meant to be useful to researchers, clinicians, and patients, and it improves fastest with input from people who know these conditions well. If you spot an error, a missing study, or a signal that has been miscategorized, please tell us; accuracy matters more to this project than completeness.

We are also actively interested in hearing which gaps matter most: which conditions to add next, which pipelines to strengthen, and where the evidence framing could be clearer. If you are a researcher or clinician open to a conversation, an email is welcome.

Whel is an index of signals, not a primary source. For any clinical claim, follow the link through to the underlying study, trial registry, or database and cite that source directly. If you want to reference Whel itself, for example to point to a specific signal or to the way the evidence is aggregated, a suggested format is:

Because the index is updated as new evidence appears, please include the date accessed. When citing a specific signal, name the condition and the signal so the reference can be located even after the page changes.