Innovations in Women's Health Spring 2024
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The power of mentorship is clear when you first meet Sarah Yip, PhD, and Sarah Lichenstein, PhD, and hear how their complementary interests and collaborative work have grown and thrived.
A professorship has been established at Yale to honor and commemorate the contributions of the late Steven M. Southwick, MD, one of the world’s leading experts on psychological trauma and human resilience. The Director of the Women and Addictive Disorders Core within Women’s Health Research at Yale Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry.
In November, President Joe Biden launched the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research. This effort is led by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden in close collaboration with the White House Gender Policy Council. It is chaired by Carolyn M. Mazure, PhD, founder and director of Yale School of Medicine’s Women’s Health Research at Yale.
If you’re like me, you may have a million questions about what a Presidential Memorandum entails, and what the Initiative will accomplish. Here’s a WHRY Undergraduate Fellow’s guide to understanding the Memorandum on the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research.
One trillion dollars. That is the amount that could be infused into the global economy annually by 2040 if we closed the women’s health gap, according to a recent report by the World Economic Forum and McKinsey Health Institute.
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Taliser Avery
Sylvia Ardyn Boone
Jane Boucher
Sam Chauncey
Jane Cohen
Mary Conway
Hilda G. Foreman
Mona Gregg
Patricia W. Jaeger
Helen Jean Klatchko
Susanna Krentz
Ruth Lansner
Carolyn M. Mazure, PhD
Barbara Riley
Carol F. Ross
Florence Sabin Stern
Anne Stewart
Phyllis Z. Seton
Barbara Wareck
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Laurie M. Benjamin
Elisa Spungen Bildner
Anne Boucher
Patricia Brett
Linda J. Calarco
Kim A. Healey
Sharon Wolfsohn Karp
Susanna Krentz - Chair
Ruth L. Lansner
Haleigh Larson
Kevin McCann
Cynthia H. McCraven
Ellen Gibson McGinnis
Wendy Underwood Naratil
Eve Hart Rice
Barbara Masters Riley
Carol F. Ross
Diane Young Turner
Special Advisors
Marjorie "Kitty" Northrop Friedman
Kimberly M. Goff-Crews
Ramona E. Gregg
Linda Koch Lorimer
Honorary Members
U.S. Representative Rosa L. DeLauro
Joanne Woodward
Nancy Wyman