WHAC Community and Public Health

Towards Equity & Empowerment
in Medicine & Women's Health

MAJOR PROJECTS

• Health Cares About Domestic Violence Day - October 10, 2007
  We're working with the Family Violence Prevention Fund to once again bring domestic violence awareness to health professional schools across the country. Click here for more information and to download ideas for talks, projects, and more!
  
  Tell us how your event went!
  
  
• Prison Violence
  Working to raise awareness of health issues (mental health, reproductive health, violence prevention) in our nation's prisons. For more information or project ideas, contact Katie Nagel.
  
  
• HIV/AIDS and Women's Empowerment
  Women have the fastest-growing infection rate of HIV, both domestically and abroad. In conjunction with GHAC, we're putting together a series of powerpoints, projects-in-a-box, and other activities for chapters to raise awareness about this growing danger.
  
  
• Women's Health Awareness - Breast Cancer, Heart Disease, and Others
  We've put together links for various health awareness events throughout the year to make it easy to incorporate women's health into your AMSA events or your school curriculum - check out what's in store for the coming year:
  
  

  AUGUST

  World Breastfeeding Week (first week)

  - Breastfeeding PowerPoint (882KB)

   

  SEPTEMBER

  Women in Medicine Month

  - Women in Medicine PowerPoint (670KB)

   

  OCTOBER

  Love Your Body Day (mid-October)

  - Love Your Body Day Presentation 1 (1MB)

  - Love Your Body Day Presenatation 2 (700KB)

  Breast Cancer Awareness Month

  - Breast Cancer Presentation 1 (198KB)

  - Breast Cancer Presentation 2 (1.1MB)

  - Breast Cancer Projects in a Box

  - Breast Cancer Project Ideas

  Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month

  - Domestic Violence PowerPoint (460KB)

   

  - Health Care Against Domestic Violence Day Organizing Packet and Campus Organizing Guide: Examples of student-lead and community member/provider-lead projects. Request FREE materials to distribute at your school/in your community.

   

  NOVEMBER

  Diabetes Awareness and Screening Month

  - Diabetes in Women (686KB)

   

  DECEMBER

  Menopause Awareness and Sexual Health in Elderly Women Month

  World AIDS Day PowerPoint, Dec 1: focus on disproportionate amount of African American women and increase in elderly women contracting HIV (2.16MB)

  - AIDS Project Descriptions

   

  JANUARY

  Cervical Health Awareness Month

  - Cervical Cancer Health Education (1.6MB)

  Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month

  - GYN Cancer Awareness Presentation (1.2MB)

   

  FEBRUARY

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week (fourth week)

  National Women's Heart Health Day (third week)

  - Women's Heart Health Awareness Presentation (1MB)

   

  MARCH

  National Colon Cancer Awareness Month (focus on women)

   

  APRIL

  Substance Abuse Awareness Month

  - Substance Abuse Awareness Projects-in-a-Box

  - Women and Substance Abuse PowerPoint Presentation (1MB)

   

  MAY

  National Women's Health Month

  - Colon Cancer in Women PowerPoint (1MB)

  Mental Health Awareness Month