Orsolya Iványi

Orsolya Iványi is a communications expert, journalist, author, and one of Hungary’s most prominent advocates for menopause education and women’s health. She spent more than twenty years working in senior marketing and PR roles for leading multinational companies in Budapest and London, before shifting her career towards women’s health at the age of 40. Motivated by her own experience and the systemic challenges faced by Hungarian women, she made menopause education her full-time mission.

As the founder of the Second Spring Project and MOKA – the Menopause Education and Research Foundation, she develops initiatives that aim to bring menopause into Hungary’s health policy, social, and innovation dialogue, and to provide women with accessible, evidence-based, data-driven knowledge.

She is the author of three books, including Mindent a változókorról (Everything About Menopause), a unique and much-needed educational resource on the Hungarian market. She has built an active online community of more than 40,000 women, now one of the largest platforms in Hungary dedicated to menopause and women’s health. She collaborates regularly with professional organisations, clinicians and companies, and serves on the board of the Hungarian Menopause Society—uniquely, as the only non-physician member—where she acts as a bridge between the medical community and lay women.

Five years ago, she launched Hungary’s first menopause-friendly workplace programme, a pioneering initiative that introduced menopause into corporate health strategies and workplace wellbeing. Since then, she has partnered with numerous major companies to support women through this life stage and to ensure understanding, awareness, and appropriate workplace policies. She spoke at the 2025 EMAS- European Menopause and Andropause Congress in Valencia, sharing insights on menopause at workplace programs in Hungary with an international professional audience.

Her work is driven by the conviction that menopause is not merely a biological transition but a significant health policy, economic, and social issue—one that can be transformed through accessible education, digital innovation, and data-driven solutions.