COHI’s FIRST ANNUAL WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE SUMMIT
Bridges: Women’s Health Care as an Agent of Change

Circle of Health International’s 1st annual women’s health summit is just around the corner!  The summit will be held on June 4th, 2010 at Boston University’s School of Public Health. This year our theme will be Bridges: Women’s Health Care as an Agent of Change, and we're pleased the present the following panel of expert lecturers from various fields within women’s health:


Monica Onyango, PhD, RN, MPH
Gender-based Violence in Disaster Settings
Sharon Craig Economides, LM, CPM, MMid
The Status of Maternal Child Health in Afghanistan
Gomer Ben Moshe, MA, CNM
COHI Middle East Coexistence Project
Siobhan McNally, MD, MPH
Responding to Women’s Health Needs in post-earthquake Haiti
Abdelhadi Eltahir, MD, MPH
Community Initiatives to end Female Genital Mutilation
Eugene Declercq, PhD
Topic TBA
Terri Clark, PhD, MSN, CNM, RN
Topic TBA

We are still accepting posters for the poster session, and we would love to hear about what you are doing to improve women's health.  Please click HERE to submit a poster.  If you are interested in donating raffle prizes or sponsoring this event, please contact Nechama Wildanah at nwildanah@cohintl.org.  We have just submitted our CEU application and hope to provide CEU’s to midwives attending our summit.  We are looking forward to full day with many opportunities to network and learn from each other.  To register for the summit, please click HERE.   Please feel free to email Rachel Bedenbaugh at rbedenbaugh@cohintl.org with any questions, or visit our summit web page at http://www.cohintl.org/05news/summit_2010.php.  We look forward to meeting you in June!

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