Associate Professor & Chief Technology Officer Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education University of Michigan Medical School L4000 Women’s Hospital 1500 E. Medical Center Dr. Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 Phone: 734-936-3110 Fax: 734-936-7722 e-mail: immaya@umich.edu Dr. Maya Hammoud is Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Professor of Medical Education at the University of Michigan Medical School. She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO). Dr. Hammoud completed her M.D. degree at the University of Michigan Medical School, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha and cum laude in 1996. Upon completion of her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan Hospital in 2000, she joined the faculty as assistant professor and the Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship. She then served as Assistant Dean for Student Programs and Interim Associate Dean for Student Programs prior to relocating to Qatar. In those roles, Dr. Hammoud introduced many curricular innovations and ran many teaching workshops for faculty and resident development. She is the recipient of many teaching awards including the APGO Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2006, Dr. Hammoud joined Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar first as Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs, and then as the Senior Associate Dean for Education. During that time, she was very active in promoting women’s health and wellness programs at the hospital and in the community. After 3 years in Qatar, Dr. Hammoud relocated back to her home in Michigan and rejoined the faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School. Among her clinical and research activities at the University of Michigan Hospital, Dr. Hammoud developed and directed the Middle Eastern Women’s Health Program which primary mission was to provide culturally sensitive health care services to women of Middle Eastern origin. She published on special health and cultural issues in the Arab and Muslim patient, and translated patient education materials from English into Arabic. In recognition of her contributions, Dr. Hammoud was awarded the Arab American and Chaldean Council’s Excellence in Health Care Award. Currently, she continues her work in this area by collaborating on a project with faculty in Qatar on developing culturally appropriate instruments for patients’ assessment of the quality of health care in the Middle East. Dr. Hammoud has published numerous papers in the field of medical education, as well as in obstetrics and gynecology with a focus on women’s health and cultural competence. She serves as a reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals and she is currently the Associate Editor for the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics.Read More
9 November 2004 Dear Dr Luthra, I acknowledge with thanks your letter of 20 October 2004, introducing your Organization. We have taken due note of your initiative. Please be advised, however, that as UNESCO is mainly devoted to the promotion of intellectual cooperation in education, science, culture and communication, it would seem more appropriate for you to contact the World Health Organization, WHO, which should be able to help you in connection with your request which focuses on health related issues. Thanking you for your interest in UNESCO and wishing you every success in your activities, I remain, Yours sincerely, Massoud Abtahi Chief Section of International Non-Governmental Organizations and FoundationsRead More
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Women’s Health Care Physicians 409 12th Street SW Washington, D.C. 20024 ʮһÔÂ15£¬2002 Dr. Rita Luthra Women’s Health & Education Center 300 Stafford St Ste 265 Springfield MA 01104 Ç×°®µÄ Dr. Luthra: Dr. ²é¶û˹[ Hammond] ¹²ÓÐÄúµÄÐÅÓë[ website] ¸ú²¿ÃÅÖÐÅ®È˽¡¿µ·¢ÐÐÖÐ[ ACOG.] ÎÒÃÇʹ¸ßÐËѧÖÐÄúµÄ[ web site] Óëά³ÖËüÔÚÐÄÀïµ±×÷ÍøվΪŮÈËÓÃÔÚÄÚÁªºÏµÄÇéÐÎÓëÍù¹úÍâ¡£ ³ÏÖ¿, Dr. Luella Klein ¸±×Üͳ ²¿ÃÅÖÐÅ®È˽¡¿µ·¢ÐÐ Cc: Dr. Charles Hammond ×Üͳ, ACOGRead 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
Your privacy on the Internet is of utmost importance to the Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC). This privacy statement describes WHEC’s policy concerning the gathering and sharing of visitors’ information through the WHEC web site. It applies to all “WHEC sites” — that is, all sites within the “womenshealthsection.com” domain name. What information does WHEC collect? Normal web site usage: In general, you can browse the WHEC site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. The only information we gather during general browsing is from standard server logs. These include your IP (Internet Protocol) address, domain name, browser type, operating system, and information such as the web site that referred you to us, the files you download, the pages you visit, and the dates/times of those visits. Collection of personally identifiable information If you register for a newsletter, log on to certain WHEC sites, request information, provide feedback, join a discussion group or join an electronic mailing list, you will be asked to provide personal information such as your name, postal address and e-mail address. This information is collected only with your knowledge and permission, and is kept in various WHEC databases. WHEC sites with specific requirements to collect personal information may publish a privacy policy specific for that site. In these cases, the site-specific policies will be complementary to this general WHEC privacy policy, but will give additional details for that particular site. Joining electronic discussion groups may mean that other participants of the discussion group (including non-WHEC employees) will see personal information that you have volunteered. For open discussion groups, this information will be public. What does WHEC do with the information it collects? Normal web site usage: The information gathered during general browsing of the “womenshealthsection.com” domain is used to analyze trends and usage of the WHEC site and to improve the usefulness of the site. It is not connected with any personal information. Personally identifiable information WHEC may use the personal information you provide to: Contact you — either in response to a query or suggestion, or to mail newsletters, documents, publications etc. to you; “Remember” your online profile and preferences; Help you quickly find information that is relevant to you based on your interests, and help us create site content most relevant to you; Statistical analysis What if I don’t want to provide personal information? Providing personal information on the WHEC site is optional. If you choose not to provide personal information, you can still browse and use the WHEC site. Security We do not sell or share any personally identifiable information volunteered on the WHEC site to any third party. Any information provided to WHEC by users of the WHEC site is held with the utmost care and security, and will not be used in ways other than as set forth in this privacy policy, or in any site-specific policies, or in ways to which you have explicitly consented. WHEC employs a range of technologies and security measures to protect the information maintained on our systems from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. All our employees who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of official business matters, including personal data. The WHEC site contains links to sites external to the womenshealthsection.com domain. WHEC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites.Read 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
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
WHEC：合作，致力于全球妇女的福祉和健康的里程碑和时间表 2018 1月 – Greetings from THE WHITE HOUSE; President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. 1月 – Greetings from UN Secretary General António Guterres. 1月 – Letter of Support from THE WHITE HOUSE; President Donald J. Trump. 1月 – UN Document, Economic and Social Council, Commission on Population and Development, E/CN.9/2018/NGO/2 17 4月 – Tuesday chat series @ UNDPINGO – Child Marriages – Call to Action with UNICEF HQ 10 7月 – Side Event @ High Level Political Forum (HLPF) – Panel discussion on WHEC Global Health Line and its LINK (Learning Innovation Network Knowledge) Access Project – to provide access to reproductive health research, worldwide. Available at UN Web TV: http://webtv.un.org/watch/player/5807660229001 13 11月 & 29 11月 – Support and acknowledgment of THE WHITE HOUSE; President Trump. 2017 1月 – Greetings from THE WHITE HOUSE; President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. 6 2月 – UN Document – WHEC Annual Project Report. 14 7月 – Commitment Progress with Every Women Every Child, published and updated. 7月 – Invited and participated at the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF). 2016 7月 – UN Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals; #SDGAction 1212 7月 – Acknowledgment of President Barack Obama, THE WHITE HOUSE. 8月 – Acknowledgment of WHO – Assistant Director-General Family, Women’s and Children’s Health. 2015 1月 – The Acknowledgement and Greetings of UN Secretary General Mr. BAN Ki-moon. 10 3月 – Invited and attended United Nations Secretary-General hosted event, Saving Lives, Protecting Futures, an Every Woman Every Child high-level event, in the ECOSOC Chamber at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and the launch of Progress Report on the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. 29 5月 – The Economic and Social Council UN Document E/2015/NGO/2 regarding Post-2015 development agenda in High Level Segment, got accepted and published. 8 7月 – Invitation to High-Level Segment of ECOSOC for presentation of UN Document – E/2015/NGO/2 2014 1月 – The Acknowledgement and Greetings of UN Secretary General Mr. BAN Ki-moon. 18 6月 – 2014 ECOSOC Substantive Session – 2014 High-level Segment of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) accepted the written statement of WHEC; Document symbol: E/2014/NGO/53 25 9月 – Attended and participated in breakfast meeting for UN MDG Advocates and in the afternoon a high level segment at 69th UN General Assembly of Every Woman and Every Child on invitation of UN Secretary General BAN Ki-moon at Trusteeship Council, UN Headquarters. 2013 1月 – The Greetings of UN Secretary General Mr. BAN Ki-moon and Mrs. BAN Soon-taek; 2月 – Committee on NGOs at its 2013 regular session, which closed on 8 February 2013, recommended with note the quadrennial reports of 277 non-governmental organizations. Women’s Health and Education Organization which is non-profit entity of Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) was one of them (listed on page 14, United Nations Economic and Social Council E/C.2/2013/L.1/ REV. 1); 7月 – Oral Statements at 2013 Annual Ministerial Review by request from the Office of the President of Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. 10月 – Support from the Yale OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT for collaboration. 2012 1月 – Acknowledgment received from UN Secretary General BAN Ki-moon for the work to advance global agenda in Women’s Health. 25 9月 – Analyzing Progress on Commitments to the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health; PMNCH 2012 Report and website included WHEC’s initiatives and released at 67th General Assembly Session at UN Headquarter, NY 2011 4 5月 – The Secretariat of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) is pleased to welcome Women’s Health and Education Centre as a member of The Partnership — Hosted by the World Health Organization. 20 9月 – UN Secretary General BAN Ki-moon’s invitation to participate in forum at UN Headquarter, ECOSOC Chamber — Every Woman Every Child — The Effort to Advance the Global Strategy. 2010 28 2月-12 3月 – Invited and participated in e-Discussion on Global Public Health jointly organized by United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP), as part of the preparatory process for the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review (AMR). 5 4月 – Submission of Oral Statements for the 2010 ECOSOC High-Level Segment — CSO Net. 19 5月 – Listed in Directory of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) — Division of Social Policy and Development (DSPD) having established steady working relationships with the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD), Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), United Nations (UN). 1 7月 – WHO | The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health | Resources for e-learning publication: WomensHealthSection.com 2009 29 1月 – 26 2月; Invited and participated in e-Discussion on Global Public Health jointly organized by United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP), as part of the preparatory process for the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review (AMR). 31 3月 – The Project “Continuing Medical Education Initiative for the Globalized World” published on the UN-NGO-IRENE Best Practices Network website. 1 12月 – Posted on CSO Net, ECOSOC Civil Society Network — Projects on World Map 2008 29 2月; Academic Partnership Unit / Academic Initiative Section / Outreach Division of the United Nations published the article title: Improving maternal Health Through Education — Safe Motherhood is a Necessity; in UN Chronicle. 23 6月; DPI — NGO accredited Information Program of the Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) and is invited to continue the project / program, for the next 4 years. Our next quadrennial review is required in 2012. 7 7月; NGO Section / DESA, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations at its 2008 Resumed Session, from 29 5月-6 6月, decided to recommend Special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council to the organization, Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC). 22 7月; the Economic and Social Council, at its Substantive Session of 7月 2008, decided to grant Special consultative status to the organization Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC). 2007 10 10月; Invited by Academic Partnership Unit / Academic Initiative Section of the United Nations to participate in the special edition focusing on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Article title: Improving Maternal Health through Education; has been accepted for publication by UN Chronicle. 1 11月; article title: Contraception counseling and compliance; published by Bulletin of the World Health Organization. It has become the program/project of WHO. 2006 1st 9月; Sign Out column (Insights and reflections from thought leaders in obstetrics and gynecology) title: The Internet as a classroom in women’s health, published in Contemporary OB/GYN (page 120). 15th 10月; WHEC Update – A Newsletter of worldwide activity of Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) launched. 1st 11月; the article title: Health-care patents and interests of patients, published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization (page 919) Ref. No. 06-033340 2005 14th 1月; License for Publication signed with Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 7th 4月; NGO Briefings on World Health Day at the United Nations presented about the mission of Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) and its Online publication: WomensHealthSection.com 1st 7月; the article regarding WomensHealthSection.com title: Internet health learning to improve women’s health, published as a letter in Bulletin of the World Health Organization (page 557). 29th 7月; UN Chronicle published the article title: Safe Motherhood — A Matter of Human Rights and Social Justice, as a lead article for the Millennium Development Goal # 5 (Improve Maternal Health). 25th 8月; Acknowledgment of the mission of Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) by Economic and Social Commission for Asia the Pacific (UN ESCAP). 7th 12月; Letter of Support and Acknowledgment from the United Nations University regarding e-learning publication WomensHealthSection.com 2004 9th 1月; The Executive Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Associated with The United Nations Department of Public Information acknowledged the mission of WHEC. 25th 10月; Letter of Support and Acknowledgement from the World Health Organization. 2003 30th 6月; The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations of the Department of Public Information (DPI) approved Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) for association with the Department. 2002 24th 10月; Online Peer-Reviewed Journal title: WomensHealthSection.com launched in &association with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations and eclecTechs. 2001 12th 4月; Established to undertake various projects / programs to improve women’s health & status worldwide. 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