Why Fertility Treatment Is Broken (And What Needs to Change) | Tess Cosad on Building Béa Fertility

S5E1 - Why Fertility Treatment Is Broken (And What Needs to Change) | Tess Cosad on Building Béa Fertility

Published: March 11, 2026

Duration: 1:03:54

What if the most important fertility treatment of the last decade wasn’t invented in a clinic, but built from scratch, during a lockdown, by someone who had never worked in medicine?

In this episode of Why Design, Tess Cosad shares the belief that sits at the heart of Béa Fertility: that compassionate, clinical-grade care should be available to everyone, not just those who can afford a private clinic, survive a two-year waiting list, or live near the right postcode.

Rather than accepting the gap between DIY conception and IVF, Tess chose to fill it...