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Following its mission to work with Brigham and Women’s Hospital to improve the health of women and to transform medicine through education and advocacy, the BWH Women’s Health Leadership Forum held a program on “Maternal and Infant Health: In Boston and Around the World” this week at HMS.
The informative event examined maternal health issues from the neighborhoods of Boston – where low income and minority women experience significant disparities in pregnancy rates, low birth weights and access to care – to the remote regions of Afghanistan – where the lack of food, clean water, shelter, safety and basic medical care causes some of the highest rates of maternal and infant mortality in the world.
Among the presenters were BWH's own JudyAnn Bigby, MD, medical director of Community Health Programs, and Hilarie Cranmer, MD, acting director of the International Medicine and Health Fellowship Program. Susannah Sirkin, MEd, deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), spoke on behalf of BWH’s Lynn Amowitz, MD, MSPH, MSc, who is currently serving in Iraq with PHR.
Longtime BWH supporter and WHLF member, Joan Crocker, remarked, “It’s important to recognize health issues facing women everywhere, and I’m so proud that these physicians are representing BWH in the Boston community and around the world.”
For more information on the Women’s Health Leadership Forum, email whlf@partners.org