President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), 2013-2016 27 Sussex Place Regent’s Park London NW1 4RG; U.K. T: +44 20 7772 6250 David is a consultant uro-gynaecologist at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital and was its Medical Director for 17 years from 1993 to 2010 prior to becoming Vice President (Clinical Quality) of the RCOG. During his tenure he published High Quality Women’s Health (2011)–a proposal for developing a public health life-course approach to care combined with implementing networks for delivery. He championed the production of the first RCOG national Maternity Clinical Indicators Report for England. This will act as a template for further national reports to include other aspects of clinical performance. David has promoted clinical quality initiatives and audit at a national level and encouraged the College to develop quality improvement projects (Each Baby Counts and Perineal Trauma – 2015). His main interests lie in all aspects of education, training, clinical quality and safety and the implementation of national guidance. He has a strong track record in workforce planning and authored the RCOG report on the Future Workforce in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for England and Wales (2009). This has led to a working party to review national standards for maternity care and also gynaecology with a particular emphasis on service delivery; Safer Women’s Healthcare. Dr. Richmond has been keen to improve the relationship between the College and its membership and is implementing the recommendations of its Governance Review and subsequent Representation Working Party which has proposed greater openness and transparency of College working and Council meetings. He has also opened the discussion on increasing the electorate to its members potentially on a global footing. He is Vice Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Council member and Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. He has developed strong links with the UK Government ministers in areas of mutual benefit, the Care Quality Commission and NHS England. David has represented the RCOG on independent national reviews in Scotland and England with regard to surgical mesh use for incontinence and prolapse and is co-chair of the models of care stream in the NHS Maternity Review. His main interests outside medicine involve his family and the outdoors including his garden, golf, running and climbing.Read More

Welcome to the virtual health library in women’s health care – Guidelines for Women’s Health Partner, Publish & Promote The Journal, WomensHealthSection.com contains a number of innovative and successful best practices from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), participating institutions, their faculty, and UN entities around the world. In this section, institutions, authors and NGOs can view and rate best practices in specific fields of work, network with organizations around the world, and promote their own work to a global audience. Users can also submit papers, manuscripts, photographs representative of their work which will be available for fellow users to browse. The most of our content is generally commissioned, but if you have a great idea for a commentary, editorial, public health review, news story, interview, book review, or public health classic, we would be happy to consider your proposal. We are embarking on a new era in medicine and health care. As you know the information super-highway has much information to offer to the health care providers all over the world. To reach the global community and to serve national and international health care educational needs, we have opened, the Guidelines for Contributors and Submit a Manuscript, for fast, easy electronic submission of your work. Serving all over the world, the Journal, WomensHealthSection.com is most widely read in the specialty. We plan development together. We build partnerships to last. Grants and services provided by Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) to the Authors and Editors help us all to build better health care systems in both industrialized and developing countries: Partner, Publish & Promote. What sort of papers/research do we want, publish and fund? The Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) publishes papers on matters of women’s health and health development with a special focus on Millennium Development Goal # 5 (Improve Maternal Health). This is a very broad field, and we consider a very wide range of papers, but the ones that survive peer review and are accepted for publication have some common features: The work described has some implications beyond where it was done. We learned something from the paper. We think that our readers would learn something, or find the contents useful to them in their work. The work is novel, relevant and valid, and has been conducted in an ethical manner. WHEC provides grants for the research/publications for the accepted paper for the translations in six languages to be included in WomensHealthSection.com and dissemination of the work worldwide to millions of our readers in health care and policy-makers. Authors of accepted papers are also invited to participate in Continuing Medical Education (CME) discussions and forums on WHEC Global Health Line. Unsolicited manuscripts: For the sections – Research, Policy & Practice, and Lessons From The Field manuscripts must be accompanied by two paragraphs indicating what they add to the literature:– A brief explanation of what was already known about the topic concerned;– A brief outline of what we know as a result of your manuscript. The Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC)’s policy on competing interests: Competing interests arise when authors, reviewer, or editors have personal, commercial, political, academic or financial interests that are not fully apparent and that may influence their professional judgment on a paper’s content or suitability for publication. The WHEC recognizes that the desirable expertise of authors, writers and reviewers also makes them prone to acquiring competing interests in their subject area. The WHEC also requires authors, editors and reviewers to disclose their competing interests, upon submission or review of a paper for any section of the journal. Authors’ competing interests statements will be taken into consideration when a final decision is made to accept or reject a paper, but will not stand as the only criterion for rejection without the editors first seeking further clarification from the authors. The WHEC asks reviewers to decline the invitation to review a paper if they feel that they may have a conflict of interest that would impede their objectivity, and to declare any potential competing interests when accepting the invitation to review. The editors and editorial advisers are obliged to declare any competing interests to WHEC, and preclude themselves from handling papers in such interests collide. The WHEC’s usual time span on conflict of interests is for three years preceding the disclosure, but authors, reviewers and editors are asked to declare any relevant competing interests that they may have outside of this period. In addition, The WHEC requires that authors explicitly state all sources of funding for research or writing activities. This information should be included in the acknowledgements section of the paper, and the methods section of the paper should include the role of the funding source as regards the design, execution, and analysis of the study, and the decision to submit the paper for publication. Submitting and Publishing Clinical Trials on WomensHealthSection.com: The registration of all interventional trials is a scientific, ethical and moral responsibility. This will improve research transparency and will ultimately strengthen the validity and value of the scientific evidence base. Clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies should follow specific guidelines; available at: http://www.gpp-guidelines.org . All human trials that are phase 2a and above must be registered with a clinical trial registry of World Health Organization (WHO); available at: http://www.who.int/ictrp/en or National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States; available at: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ Authors should provide the name of the trial registry, the registry URL, and the trial registration number at the end of the abstract. Please note: Submit your contributions in a Microsoft Word compatible format (*.doc) and in English only. Thank you. License for publication Inquires at:Editorial OfficeWomen’s Health and Education Center (WHEC)Springfield, MA, USAe-mail: Editor@WomensHealthSection.comRead More

16 February, 1994 Dear Dr. Luthra, On behalf of the IYF Coordinator, I would like to acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of your letter to him of 9 February 1994. We are very pleased to learn that you have established close contacts with Dr. Belsey of WHO and have made good progress on your plans and activities on health and status of women in developing countries, as a specific contribution to the International Year of the Family. The IYF Coordinator and his Secretariat will continue to be of assistance whenever possible. As regards the proposed dates for the conference on the Year, kindly note that a major international event is planned to be held in Montreal from 12 to 15 October, held in cooperation with the IYF Secretariat, and on 18 October the General Assembly is scheduled to hold a special conference on families. I am attaching, by fax, relevant pages of the Calendar of events related to the Year, which you may find useful in your planning. A copy of the Calendar is sent by mail. I look forward to our continued and mutual beneficial cooperation. With best wishes, Yours sincerely, George Puthuppally Social Affairs OfficerRead More

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Women’s Health Care Physicians 409 12th Street SW Washington, D.C. 20024 November 15, 2002 Dr. Rita Luthra Women’s Health & Education Center 300 Stafford St Ste 265 Springfield MA 01104 Dear Dr. Luthra: Dr. Charles Hammond has shared your letter and website with the Division of Women’s Health Issues of ACOG. We are pleased to learn of your web site and will keep it in mind as a site for women to use in the United States and abroad. Sincerely, Dr. Luella Klein Vice President Division of Women’s Health Issues Cc: Dr. Charles Hammond President, ACOGRead More

Educación De Salud De las Mujeres: Una Comunidad Global Progreso para las mujeres alrededor del mundo Beneficiarios Visitantes de WomensHealthSection.com Nuestros Contribuidores: Somos agradecidos a nuestros contribuidores que regalo ha hecho este website educativo en Healthcare de las mujeres posible. Las contribuciones son impuesto-deducibles. Su ayuda de continuación se aprecia profundamente. Los Benefactores: Los ($50,000 y arriba) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2019) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2018) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2017) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2016) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2015) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2014) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2013) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2012) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2011) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2010) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2009) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2008) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2007) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2006) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2005) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres (2004) Los Patrocinadores: Los ($25,000 y arriba) ¡De Camino Temprano! Patrocinador Corporativo, Élite ($10.000 y arriba) El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres Patrocinador Corporativo ($5.000 y arriba) ¡Venir Pronto! Patrocinador de Group/Organization, Élite ($1.000 y arriba) Dr. James A. Whelton Patrocinador de Group/Organization ($500 y arriba) Dr. & Sra. Francis H. Boudreau Patrocinador individual, élite ($200 y arriba) Santosh B. Luthra Hampden County Physician Associates, LLC McClure Insurance Agency Anne & David Baker Oakdale Dental Associates Drs. Farricy & Kraft Gracias Especiales Todos en La Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las Mujeres, sentimos una enorme deuda de la gratitud al Dr. Benton Baker III, que ayudó a hacer este Web site educativo en obstetricia y ginecología, posible. Es mi placer y privilegio trabajar con él por los 12 años pasados para mejorar los salud de las mujeres y bienestar por todo el mundo. Él es uno de la gente más buena y más divertida viva. Colega muy de apoyo y que cuida y un amigo, a quien debo una carrera por completo de la gratitud. Tacto humano. Sin su influencia profunda, sé, yo no habría visto estas secciones venir vivo. Gracias inmensurables por introducirnos al Dr. Eugene Toy, director de programa Ob/Gyn del hospital Christus St. Joseph. Su ayuda y decisiones sabias ha convertido las ideas en una realidad. Quisiera reconocer la ayuda enorme dada a mí por el Dr. James A. Whelton, en crear este Web site educativo, para mejorar la salud de las mujeres y el bienestar por todo el mundo. Soy agradecido a un gran profesor y a un amigo, que consejo sano me ayudó a considerar el mundo como lugar más profundo. Cuando el mundo se parecía más frío y se descoloraron las penetraciones, su sabiduría y amabilidad eran como una luz de la guía, hacer mi manera con ella. Tomamos ciertas cosas para concedido, incluso cuando nos conocemos si nunca tome las cosas para concedido. Es en estas horas, durante mi implantación en el hospital del St. Elizabeth en Boston, yo realizó que él es de hecho un mentor. Él cree a menudo en mí más que lo hago mismo. Gracias especiales al Dr. James A. Whelton, presidente (jubilado) de Departamento de la obstetricia y de ginecología, hospital del St. Elizabeth, Boston, para enseñarnos el significado verdadero del cuidado paciente. Gracias otra vez. Rita Luthra, MD Presidente, El Centro para la Salud y la Educación de las MujeresRead More

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Boston, MA (USA) Education and Training: Undergraduate, University of Massachusetts, BS, Cum Laude, Biochemistry, 1986-90 Graduate, Albany Medical College, MD, 1992-96 Post Graduate, New England Medical Center, PGY-1 Obstetrics & Gynecology, 7/96-7/97 Post Graduate, New England Medical Center, Resident Obstetrics & Gynecology, 7/97-6/00 Appointments and Positions: Assistant Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, 2000-present Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Student third year clinical rotation Coordinator, 2000-2003 Regis College, Nurse Practitioner program, Outpatient preceptor, 2007-present Certification and Licensure: Massachusetts State License #205483, 1996 American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2003 Membership In Professional Societies: American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Fellow), 2002-present Massachusetts Medical Society, 1998-present American Medical Society, 2005-present Academic Interests: Diagnosis and management of cervical disease St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center is devoted to women’s health care issues and welcomes projects related to safe motherhood from all over the world. Our residency program has residents from various countries and ethnic backgrounds. Our diversity is our strength.Read More

Scope and Editorial Policy The mission of the Journal, WomensHealthSection.com is to publish and disseminate scientifically rigorous public health information, with special focus on women’s health, of national and international significance that enables health care providers, policy-makers, and researchers to be more effective. It aims to improve health, particularly among disadvantaged populations in both developed and developing countries. Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) welcomes unsolicited manuscripts, which are initially screened in-house for originality and relevance. Manuscripts passing the initial screening are sent blindly for peer review. After the reviews have been received, the editorial advisers decide on the manuscript’s acceptability for publication in WomensHealthSection.com. Accepted papers are subject to editorial revision, including shortening of the text and omission of tables and figures if appropriate. The word limits shown below do not include the abstract (where applicable), tables, figures and references. The principal types of manuscripts are outlined below. I. Unsolicited Manuscripts 1.1 Letters. Useful contributions referring to something published recently in the WomensHealthSection.com or WHEC Update; 400-850 words, maximum 3 references. Letters are also edited and may be shortened. 1.2 Policy & Practice. Reviews, debates or hypothesis-generating papers; not more than 3,000 words, with a non-structured abstract (see below 3.5) and not more than 25 references; peer reviewed. 1.3 Research. Methodologically sound primary research of relevance to women’s health and health development. Formal scientific presentations of not more than 3,000 words, with a structured abstract (see below) and not more than 25 references; peer reviewed. 1.4 Systematic reviews in women’s health. Exhaustive, critical assessments of published and unpublished studies (grey literature) on research questions of relevance to women’s health and practice are welcome. Reviews should be prepared in strict compliance with MOOSE or QUOROM (PRISMA) guidelines or with Cochrane’s complementary guidelines for systematic reviews of health promotion and public health interventions. Not more than 3,000 words and 25 references, plus a 250-word structured abstract (see below 3.5). All studies included and excluded in the review should be shown in a flow diagram that will not count towards the word limit if published as an appendix only in the electronic version of the journal or on the author’s URL. Peer reviewed. 1.5 Perspectives. Views, hypotheses or discussions (with clear message) of an issue of women’s health interest; up to 1,500 words, no more than 6 references. 1.6 Lessons from the field. Papers that capture experiences and practice gained in solving specific women’s health problems in both developed and developing countries, with a structured abstract (see below); not more than 1,500 words and not more than 10 references, with no more than one table and one figure. II. Commissioned manuscripts The categories of articles shown below are normally commissioned by the editors. Authors wishing to submit and unsolicited manuscript to be considered for one of these categories should first contact editorial office. 2.1 Editorials. Authoritative reviews, analyses or views of an important topic related to the various themes in women’s health or an important health development subject; not more than 800 words, maximum 6 references. 2.2 Round tables. Consist of a base paper on a controversial subject of current women’s health issue of national and international importance (not more than 2,000 words and an abstract) and a debate on it by several discussants, who are invited to contribute not more than 500 words each. 2.3 Books & electronic media. Reviews of a book, web-site, CD-ROM, etc. of women’s health interest; 400-800 words, no references. 2.4 Current commentaries. Explanatory or critical analysis of an individual article; not more than 800 words, maximum 6 references. 2.5 Public health classics. A landmark public health paper which focuses on women’s health and achieving universal access to reproductive health or publication is reproduced, accompanied by a commentary of up to 1,500 words. III. Preparation and Submission of Manuscripts Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals established by the Vancouver Group (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, ICMJE). The complete document, updated October 2007, is available at: http://www.icmje.org 3.1 Languages. Manuscripts should be submitted in English. Authors who have difficulty in preparing their manuscript in English should contact the editorial office for advice. 3.2 Authorship. Authors should give their full names and the name and address of their institutions. If possible, only one institution per author should be given. In accordance with the «Uniform requirements» (see above), each author should have participated sufficiently in the work being reported to take public responsibility for the content; each author should provide a description of his or her contribution to the work being reported. The full postal and e-mail address of the corresponding author will be published unless otherwise requested. The WomensHealthSection.com encourages submissions from authors in developing countries, and in line with this policy at least one author should be a national of the country where the study was carried out and have an affiliation there. 3.3 Automatic links: All links inserted by the automatic reference and footnote facilities of word-processing software must be removed before the manuscript is submitted. Footnotes are not permitted and such material should be inserted into the main text. 3.4 Tables and figures: Tables and figures should be used only if they enhance understanding of the text. In the text, tables and figures should be numbered consecutively (e.g. Table 1, Fig. 1). They should be presented with clear, concise titles at the end of the text and not incorporated or embedded into it. Abbreviations or acronyms should be avoided but if used must be explained. Graphs or figures, which should be presented in two-dimensional and not pseudo three-dimensional «perspective» format, should be clearly drawn and all the data identified. 3.5 Abstracts. Abstracts, which should be clearly written to highlight the text’s most significant points, should be provided for the following types of papers: Research, Systematic reviews, Policy & practice, base papers for Round tables and Lessons from the field. The abstract, which should not exceed 250 words, appears in WomensHealthSection.com and WHEC Update. 3.6 Competing interest. A competing interest arises when a professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as patient’s welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain or personal rivalry). We ask all authors to disclose at the time of submission any competing interests that may have. Examples of types of competing interests may be found at: http://www.icmje.org. 3.7 Funding. Authors should declare sources of funding for the work undertaken; affirm that they have not entered into an agreement with the funding organization that may have limited their ability to complete the research as planned, and that they have had full control of all primary data. 3.8 Ethical issues. The Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) publishes the results of research involving human subjects only if it has been conducted in full accordance with ethical principles, including the provisions of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (as amended by the 59th General Assembly, October 2008; available at: http://www.wma.net/ ) and the additional requirements, if any, of the country in which the research was carried out. Any manuscript describing the results of such research that is submitted for publication must contain a clear statement to this effect, specifying that the free and informed consent of the subjects or their legal guardians was obtained and that the relevant institutional or national ethical review board approved the investigation. 3.9 Maps. Use of maps should be avoided, but should their use be necessary authors are requested to use the relevant UN-approved maps, which can be downloaded from: http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm 3.10 Bibliographic references. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of all references, which should be verified at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov : these are not checked by editors. References should be numbered consecutively as they occur in the text (in superscript roman type, preferably at the end of a sentence) and listed in numerical order at the end of the text. 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12 October, 2002 Mr. Paul Hoeffel Chief, NGO Section United Nations New York, NY 10017 Dear Sir: Please accept this letter of recommendation for the Women’s Health and Education Center of Springfield, Massachusetts. I have met with Dr. Rita Luthra on several occasions and understand the mission of the Center. It is my judgment that the Center is well qualified to be an accredited NGO to the DPI of the United Nations. Dr. Luthra has attended and participated in meetings of the UNA/USA and the Connecticut Division of our national organization. The Center is developing a useful and ambitious worldwide ob/gyn information system. If you have any questions, I would be pleased to respond. Sincerely, Irving Stolberg President, Connecticut Division UNA/USARead More

FAX: 91-0172-744401,745078 E-mail: medinst@pgi.chd.nic.in Website. http.//pgimer.nic.in (Off.) .745062 Phone: PBX .747585 Ext.5555 Resi. : 746868/746688 POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, CHANDIGARH -160 012 (India) Prof. S.K. Sharma M.S., M.Ch. (Urology), F.A.M.S. Director Dated: 27.11.02 Sub.: Worldwide proficiency of health services in collaboration with United Nations Association of USA (UNA-USA) and WomensHealthSection.Com, and all countries willing to participate in the project. ******* Dear Dr. Luthra, Kindly refer to your communication dated 21st August, 2002 which reached me through Dr. (Mrs.) S. Kataria, Ex-Director General Health Services, UT, Chandigarh with respect to the above mentioned subject. I remember Dr. Kataria having discussed this issue with me last year also but somehow I was not able to write to you. I appreciate WomensHealthSection.com and United Nations Association of USA for their efforts in helping countries and institutions to build a teaching curriculum. We would be very much interested to be a part of this programme and I would wish that sometime when you are in Chandigarh, we could talk over this project along with the Head, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Psychiatry, PGI. It was pleasure to know that you are ex-postgraduate student of this Institute and it would be our pleasure to associate with you for the betterment of any teaching programme for the Institute. With regards, Yours sincerely, (S.K. Sharma) Dr. Rita Luthra, MD Director, Women’s Health & Education Center, 300 Stafford Street, Suite 265, SPRINGFIELD, MA 01104, USA.Read More

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science Los Angeles, CA 90059 Tel: (323) 357-3424 Fax: (323) 357-3477 e-mail: kacheng@cdrewu.edu Karen G. Cheng, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Charles Drew University (CDU) in Los Angeles, USA. For nearly six years, she has been working on international health projects, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. Her research focuses on culturally appropriate uses of information and communications technology (ICT) to improve delivery of health information and health services in low-income countries. Dr. Cheng’s studies evaluate the acceptability and impact of handheld computers, mobile phones, websites, and other ICT in order to understand the social and cultural barriers to accepting ICT in healthcare settings in low-income countries. Dr. Cheng has worked with the Rwanda Defense Forces for the last three years to build their capacity to provide medical and psychosocial services to Rwandan soldiers living with HIV or AIDS. This includes developing an electronic system for patient records. The next step of the project will be to expand services to families of soldiers. In addition, she has worked with the Angolan Armed Forces to develop and experimentally test a culturally-appropriate HIV prevention intervention. The main aims of the intervention were education and skills-building. Dr. Cheng received her Ph.D. in social psychology from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2002. Her dissertation focused on how interpersonal relationships affect cultural identity.Read More