Clinical Resources

• Optimizing Health Care for Women With Disabilities through Education and Outreach
  An APGO administered educational series designed to increase the knowledge base, skills and sensitivity of physicians and allied health professionals.
  
  
• Pinn Point on Women's Health: Update on the Women's Health Initiative Podcast
  
  The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health is broadcasting the third in a series of podcasts, “Pinn Point on Women’s Health,” hosted by Dr. Vivian W. Pinn, Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health and the Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health. The monthly podcast discusses the latest news in women’s health research and includes conversations with guests on a variety of subjects.
  
  
• Women with Disabilities Symposium: A Practical Approach to Providing Quality Care to Women with Visual, Hearing and Mobility Impairments
  The conference aimed to provide clinicians and practice managers with the practical knowledge and skills that will enable them to care more sensitively and effectively for women with disabilities.
  
  
• Vexing Clinical Issues in Women's Health
  Vexing Clinical Issues in Women’s Health provide a forum for Harvard Medical School faculty and students to discuss treatment and management of complex clinical issues faced by women.
  Event Summaries are available.
  

• The Heart Truth Campaign Professional Education Website
  The Heart Truth is a national awareness and prevention campaign about heart disease in women sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). This website provides information for clinicians and educators about the prevention of heart disease in women including: consumer information and patient education materials, references for clinical decision making, education materials for medical students and other health care providers and links to CME learning modules about heart disease and women.
  
  
• Web-based CME for Women's Health Topics
  The IUSM National Center of Excellence in Women's Health has created a web-based CME program in women's health. For additional information, contact Tina Darling, project coordinator at the IUSM CoE in Women's Health, at (317) 630-2243, or tdarling@iupui.edu.
  
  
  
  

• To the Heart of Women
  To the Heart of Women is an educational program designed to help black and Latina women learn how to build the skills they need to make simple, practical, and lasting changes to help them fight heart disease for themselves and their families.
  
  
• Black Women's Atttitudes about the Link between Breast Cancer and Obesity
  A literature review and qualitative study to increase understanding of black women's attitudes and responses to evidence that there is a link between obesity and breast cancer risk.
  
  
• Teen Safe
  Online information and resources for health professionals and the community promoting health and safety in relationships, on the streets and on the internet
  
  
  

Medical Education Resources

• Cultural Competency in Women's Health
  This model curriculum is designed to train health care providers about the unique needs of minority and other underserved women. The curriculum can be adopted for use in multiple educational settings within academic medical institutions.
  
  
• Adolescent Dating Violence Prevention Program
  In 2003, the UCLA Center of Excellence in Women’s Health designed a program in which health professions students received training on how to teach adolescents about preventing teen dating violence. This model is currently being replicated by other Center of Excellence sites . UCLA is evaluating the impact of the project on health professions students. Presentations from the Harvard Medical School implementation of this program are available.
  
  
• Women's Health, Diabetes, and Physical Activity Toolkit
  Resources to help familiarize public health professionals and other practioners with current knowledge of women, diabetes and physical activity.
  
  
  

Research Resources

• Annual Research Conferences
  The Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in Women's Health sponsors a annual conference to highlight women's health research and women's health researchers in the Harvard community.
  

• Women's Health Research Community
  The WHRC is a database of clinical and basic science investigators and their approved clinical research projects in women's health. This database is a vehicle for investigators to share information with the scientific community and to encourage collaboration in women's health research. Researchers update their records regularly.
  
  
• HMS Fund for Women's Health Research
  The HMS Fund for Women's Health provides grants to help HMS faculty initiate new, collaborative, inter-institutional projects in basic research, clinical research, health services/population sciences research, or education in any area of women's health.
  
  
• Lessons Learned and Actions Needed following the FDA’s Decision about Emergency Contraception
  Dr. Wood recently resigned from her post in protest of the FDA’s decision to maintain emergency contraception as a prescription-only drug, despite strong science supporting the safety of making it available over-the-counter. We were pleased to host Dr. Susan Wood and present her with a leadership award in women's health.
  
  
• Recruiting Minority Women Into Clinical Research Trials
  A meeting summary from a 2001 forum that allowed experts discuss some of the barriers and concerns that need to be addressed in order to involve more minority women in health research, and to recruit minority women into clinical trials.
  
  
  
  

Leadership Development

• 25th Annual Fae Golden Kass Lecture - Dr. Julie Freischlag, "Are We Ready for a Woman in Charge?  Maintaining Leadership in Surgery"
  This lecture is posted on eCommons through the Faculty Affairs website.  If you are not able to view the lecture through the direct link, above, go to eCommons:  http://ecommons.med.harvard.edu/; click on "Shortcuts" on the left side bar and enter in "Faculty Affairs"; The link to the Kass Lecture video is under "Links" to the right of the page.
  You will need RealPlayer to view this lecture. For a free download visit www.real.com
  
  
• Joint Committee on the Status of Women
  The Joint Committee on the Status of Women (JCSW) was formed to facilitate and enhance the contribution of women at Harvard Medical and Dental Schools by expanding and improving our opportunities for advancement. The JCSW is comprised of both Staff and Faculty members.
  
  
  
  
  

Mentoring Opportunities

• MentorNet is looking for professionals in the biological sciences to participate in an 8 month long e-mentoring relationship with a student or young investigator. MentorNet is an award-winning nonprofit e-mentoring network that addresses the retention and success of those in engineering, science and mathematics, particularly but not exclusively women and other underrepresented groups. Founded in 1997, MentorNet provides highly motivated protégés from many of the world's top colleges and universities with positive, one-on-one, email-based mentoring relationships with mentors from industry and academia. In addition, the MentorNet Community provides opportunities to connect with others from around the world who are interested in diversifying engineering and science. For specific information about the mentoring program: www.mentornet.net/documents/about/programs/one_on_one.aspx

Online Resources (Links)

• Harvard Medical School's Center of Excellence in Women's health has provided general resources for locating world wide web sites on women's health issue and some sites on specific areas of women's health. This document was updated in January 2006 by the HMS Center of Excellence in Women's Health.
  
  These suggested sites are a starting point, and are not intended to be a complete list of women's health sites or endorsement of the material contained within.
  
  Go to our Online Resources.

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