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Media Alert: Johns Hopkins Celebrates 10th Annual Women’s Health Research Symposium - 05/08/2017

Media Alert: Johns Hopkins Celebrates 10th Annual Women’s Health Research Symposium

Release Date: May 8, 2017
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Johns Hopkins celebrates its 10th annual Women’s Health Research Symposium
Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex and Gender Research

Every year since 2008, the Johns Hopkins Women’s Health Research Group has hosted the Women’s Health Research Symposium to showcase research collaborations across Johns Hopkins’ schools of medicine, public health and nursing. 

This is the symposium’s 10-year anniversary and special celebration of the group’s official transition to becoming the Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex and Gender Research. Since its inception in 2007, the group has facilitated numerous networking and career development opportunities. It also leads the Johns Hopkins’ American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Strategically Focused Research Network Center, among other programs. The center’s main goal is to increase high quality, high impact women’s health and sex research that will improve women’s health around the globe.

What:

“Sex and Gender: Aspects of Disease and Health Across the Lifespan”
A day-long research symposium showcasing research by prominent senior faculty members in the Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex and Gender Research.

When:
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Where:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21205
Feinstone Hall E 2030

Who:

Barbara Mikulski
Retired United States Senator, Johns Hopkins Homewood Professor of Public Policy, Presidential Adviser to Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels

Patricia Davidson, Ph.D., M.E.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Wendy Bennett, M.D., M.P.H.
Chair, Johns Hopkins Women’s Health Research Group, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine