President: Dr. Rita Luthra President, The Women’s Health & Education Center (WHEC) The Women’s Health & Education Organization (WHEO, Inc.) E-mail: rita@womenshealthsection.com Secretary: Dr. Nicole H. Boudreau The Women’s Health & Education Center (WHEC) The Women’s Health & Education Organization (WHEO, Inc.) 1180 Beacon Street 2C, Brookline, MA 02446 USA Tel: 617-232-0440 Fax: 617-562-7021 E-mail: NHBoudreauMD@aol.com Treasurer: Robert S. Lyons The Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) The Women’s Health and Education Organization, Inc. (WHEO, Inc.) 11 West Elm Street West Townsend, MA 01474 Telephone: 508-361-3721 Fax: 508-525-4506 E-Mail:rslyons73156@hotmail.com Dr. Robert L. Barbieri Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ASB1-3, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115 USA Telephone: 617-732-4265 Fax: 617-277-1440 E-mail: rbarbieri@partners.org Dr. Howard L. Minkoff Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Maimonides Medical Center Distinguished Professor SUNY Health Science Center 967 48th Street Brooklyn, NY 11219 (USA) Tel: 718-283-7973 or 718-283-3000 Fax: 718-283-8468 E-mail: hminkoff@maimonidesmed.org WHEC By-LawsRead More

General Manager & Treasurer eclecTechs™, LLC 22 Cherry Street Westfield, MA 01060 info@eclecTechs.com www.eclecTechs.com Barbara has been the General Manager at eclecTechs since 1998. eclecTechs offers many Internet services, including Web Design, Programming, Networking and Consulting. eclecTechs also offers DSL and web hosting at reasonable rates. Barbara received a degree in Accounting from The University of Massachusetts in 1989.Read More

Senior Advisor in Health Promotion Leader, Urban Health and Health Determinants Team Area for Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) 525 23rd Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 Phone: 202 974-3969 Fax: 202 974-3645 e-mail: ricemari@paho.org Marilyn Rice is Senior Advisor in Health Promotion and Coordinator of the Urban Health and Determinants of Health Team for the Area of Sustainable Development and Environmental Health for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO). She has over 30 years of experience working in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual environment, often playing the role of a facilitator to help ensure clear communication and collaborative efforts in developing and implementing initiatives. She has done extensive work to support systematic evaluation and documentation of health education and promotion experiences in countries throughout the world and she coordinated and oriented technical cooperation activities in the areas of health promotion, social determinants of health, urban health and development, community mobilization, and implementation of healthy public policies. She has worked for PAHO for 22 years and the Global Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) for 7. She has also held the position of Project Director of the National Resource Center for Prevention of Perinatal Abuse of Alcohol and Other Drugs and Branch Chief of the Perinatal Branch for the US Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (part of the US Department of Health and Human Services). She holds a degree in sociology and masters training in public health and health education. She is known throughout the world for her work in community development, social mobilization, health promotion and education, as well as for her leadership in the emerging field of urban health. She has been very active in the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), serving multiple terms as Regional Director, and she currently is the Regional Vice President for the North American Regional Office (NARO) and sits on the Global and NARO Boards. Additionally, she is the Chair of Society of Public Health Education’s (SOPHE) International and Cross-Cultural Health (ICCH) Community of Practice and as a result she also sits on the SOPHE Board. She is on the editorial board of numerous peer review journals in the fields of health promotion and education. More specifically, Marilyn Rice’s experience includes: Extensive experience in leading and managing the design and monitoring of new projects through promoting team work with a diverse group of professionals, and developed long-range strategies and objectives through consensus-building in initiatives focused on but not limited to the following areas: maternal and child health; reproductive health and family planning; gender sensitive health and development initiatives; demonstration projects addressing pregnant and postpartum women and infants exposed to alcohol and other drugs; participatory action planning and evaluation in health promotion and education, especially in local development priorities and in reproductive health; nutrition education; participatory education in health; research projects in health promotion/education and community participation, and in alcohol and other drug use; school-based health education; and disaster preparedness and the community’s participation Creating strategies, analytical models and methodologies for the planning and evaluation of public health initiatives Providing technical assistance and advice to countries throughout the world Writing state-of-the-art documents and guidelines in techniques for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programs Developing training manuals and materials from entire face to face and virtual courses to supplemental electronic teaching and audio visual materials Drafting and securing approval from the Ministers of Health from countries throughout the Americas for position papers, as well as resolutions to generate cooperative implementation of PAHO and WHO programs by these governments Coordinating collaboration with a diverse group of professionals from United Nations, intra-country, national, regional and local agencies, universities, schools of public health, community organizations and professional societies Delivering numerous public speeches, presentations, briefings, lectures and seminars to audiences – in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French for government officials and/or for community leadersRead More

Profesor honorario de la obstetricia y Gynecology y psiquiatría Escuela de la universidad de Yale del remedio New Haven, CT (los E.E.U.U.) El Dr. Philip M. Sarrel, MD es actualmente profesor honorario de la obstetricia y de Gynecology y psiquiatría en la escuela de la universidad de Yale del remedio en New Haven, Connecticut. Lo designaron a la facultad de Yale en 1969 y ha permanecido en Yale a través de su carrera, levantándose a la fila del profesor completo en 1988. Después de recibir su licenciatura de la universidad de Dartmouth en Hannover, New Hampshire, y su grado médico de la escuela de la universidad de Nueva York del remedio en Nueva York, el Dr. Sarrel terminó su puesto de interno en el hospital de Sinaí del montaje en Nueva York y su implantación en obstetricia y Gynecology en el centro médico del asilo Yale-Nuevo en New Haven. Después de su cita a la facultad de Yale en 1969, junto con Lorna Sarrel, él fundó el sexo de Yale que aconsejaba servicio. En 1971, a Virginia Johnson lo y a señora Sarrel entrenaron en terapia del sexo Guillermo Masters y y en 1975-1976; El Dr. Sarrel recibió una concesión del erudito de la facultad de la fundación de Macy por un año en la universidad de Oxford en Inglaterra, en donde él trabajó con Juan Bancroft en el departamento de la psiquiatría. En 1976, el Dr. Sarrel comenzó el programa de la menopausia de Yale y en 1982-1983, él dedicó un año sabbatical al estudio de la menopausia que trabajaba con el Dr. Malcolm Whitehead en los reyes College Hospital en Londres. Lo promovieron a la fila del profesor completo en 1988 en Yale. En 1989-1990 su cita en remedio cardiaco en el instituto nacional del corazón y del pulmón en Londres permitió un año de la investigación de la cardiología en los efectos de hormonas ováricas sobre la función arterial. También en 1990, el Dr. Sarrel comenzó su arrendamiento como Co-Director de la clínica Neura-Gynecology de Yale, que continúa hoy. En el año académico 1996-1997, una cita como profesor que visitaba en el departamento del remedio interno en el hospital Colombia-columbia-Presbyterian en Nueva York permitió un año del estudio dedicado a entender las acciones de andrógenos. Él ha servido como consultor al centro para el remedio alternativo en el centro médico Colombia-columbia-Presbyterian, Nueva York, NY, desde 1997. Él también ha servido como consultor al centro para el remedio alternativo en el hospital del Yale-yale-Griffin, Derby, Connecticut desde 1998, y desde 2000 ha estado atendiendo al consultor en el departamento del remedio preventivo en el hospital del Yale-yale-Griffin. En Yale, el Dr. Sarrel ha sido Co-Director del sexo que aconsejaba a servicio desde 1969 y al director del programa del estudio de la mitad de la vida desde 1984. El Dr. Sarrel es el autor o el co-autor sobre de 200 artículos y capítulos médicos para los textos médicos y es también el co-autor de seis libros de textos relacionados con la menopausia y con entender comportamiento y respuesta sexuales. Él ha sido el recipiente de cuatro concesiones de la investigación de los institutos nacionales de la salud así como muchas otras concesiones de la investigación de fundaciones y de la industria farmacéutica. Su investigación durante los últimos 17 años se ha centrado en estudios de efectos arteriales de las hormonas y de las ediciones relacionadas con el sexo y el envejecimiento. Él está implicado actualmente en estudios de interventions dietéticos, y SERMs y los phytoestrogens y sus efectos sobre la célula endothelial funcionan. Él era uno de los co-investigadores del estrógeno de las mujeres para el ensayo de la prevención del movimiento financiado por los institutos nacionales de la enfermedad neurológica y el movimiento. El Dr. Sarrel es actualmente el redactor de MATURITAS, el diario de la sociedad internacional de la menopausia; Menopausia, el diario de la sociedad norteamericana de la menopausia; el diario de la investigación del sexo; el diario del sexo y de la terapia marital; y el diario del remedio Ge’nero-Especi’fico. Él es también un revisor del manuscrito para el diario de Nueva Inglaterra del remedio, el diario americano de la obstetricia y de Gynecology, las revisiones de la endocrina, la investigación cardiovascular, el diario de la endocrinología y del metabolismo clínicos, y el diario americano de la cardiología.Read More

30 June 2003 Dear Mr. Baker, The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations of the Department of Public Information (DPI) met in June to consider new applications from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for association with DPI. I am pleased to inform you that the Committee approved Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) for association with the Department, effective immediately. This association constitutes a commitment on the part of your organization to disseminate information and raise public awareness about the purposes and activities of the United Nations and issues of global concern. Associated NGOs are expected to focus a portion of their publications and information activities on the work of the United Nations. You are encouraged to cooperate with the United Nations Information Centres or Services in your country and with representatives of other parts of the United Nations in the area of your expertise. You are also expected to keep the DPI/NGO Section informed of the activities you undertake and to send us relevant publications and other materials. In the case of an amendment to your organizational structure or bylaws, please send us a copy of the amended documents. Also, you should inform us of all changes in your name or address or representatives to this Department. In this regard, I would like to take this opportunity to inform you that as an associated NGG, you are entitled to designate one main and one alternate representative, who will be granted United Nations photo grounds passes which are renewable annually. Please fill out aIld rehlrn the enclosed 2003 Accreditation Form. Please note that your representative(s) should come to the NGO Resource Centre in person to receive the grounds pass. The pass will give your representative(s) access to United Nations facilities and to all open meetings of the United Nations bodies, which they can attend as observers. Representatives are also invited to attend the Thursday NGO briefings organized by the Department, featuring United Nations officials, Government delegates and other experts, including NGOs. Mr. Benton Baker III President Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) 300 Stafford Street, Suite 265 Springfield, MA 01104 Your organization will also be listed on our Directory of NGOs associated with DPI, which is disseminated in print form and via our web site noted below. Your representatives are welcome to consult United Nations print, audio and video materials at the NGO Resource Centre. The NGO Section also offers an annual orientation programme for newly accredited NGO representatives. We will inform you of the dates of the next programme. Your organization will start receiving monthly mailings of relevant United Nations materials and information on United Nations conferences, seminars, briefings and other events. These materials will be sent to your Headquarters unless you instruct us to send them elsewhere. Information on these events is also available on our Web site at: www.un.org/dpi/ngosection. I would like to inform you that association of NGOs with DPI does not constitute their incorporation into the United Nations system, nor does it entitle associated organizations or their staff to any kind of privileges, immunities or special status. Please also note that only the United Nations can use the UN emblem. The UN emblem may not be used unless approval has been granted by the Legal Office of the UN. You may refer to your association with DPI in the following way: the name of your organization followed by a phrase such as «associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations». On your business cards, please refer to yourself as representative of your organization associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations. It would be incorrect to refer to yourself as a’ delegate or representative to the UN since these terms can only be used by Member States. Again, it is my pleasure to welcome your organization among NGOs associated with DPI and to assure you that myself and the staff of the DPI/NGO Section, look forward to a productive partnership in the pursuit of our common goals. Yours sincerely, Paul Hoeffel Chief NGO Section Department of Public Information cc: Mr. Sommereyns Mrs. J. Levy, Chairperson, NGO/DPI Executive Committee UNIC WashingtonRead More

Every Woman, Every Mother, Every Child, Everywhere Established in 2001, The Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) undertakes initiatives with the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO), to achieve the hopes and dreams of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Education improves health, while health improves learning potential. Education & Health, together, serve as the foundation for a better world. Join us to achieve: Education for All and Health for All. We Welcome Everyone! Join The Movement! We are everywhere – so you can be anywhere, you want to be. THE WOMEN’S HEALTH AND EDUCATION CENTER (WHEC) THE WOMEN’S HEALTH AND EDUCATION ORGANIZATION, Inc. (WHEO, Inc.)Read More

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