Acknowledgements
This project was supported by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health. Material for this project was adapted from Your Heart, Your Life: A Lay Health Educator's Manual (1999), National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.

To the Heart of Women was a collaborative effort of the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, the University of Puerto Rico Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, the St. Barnabas Community Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, and the Tulane and Xavier Universities Center of Excellence in Women’s Health.

Special thanks are extended to the Center for Cardiovascular Disease in Women and the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology of Brigham and Women's Hospital for extensive contributions in the development of this manual.

We would also like to thank the women who participated in focus groups in Boston, Massachusetts, Bronx, New York, New Orleans, Louisiana and San Juan, Puerto Rico for their candid discussions that provided invaluable insights on heart disease risk and prevention.

Update: These materials were updated in Fall 2005 by Harvard Medical School's Center of Excellence in Women's Health. We are eager to hear how you are using these materials. Please contact Lindsay Giorgi at lgiorgi@partners.org or (617) 732-5502 if you have any questions, suggestions, or recommendations.