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A resource women can count on, the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership (IWHL) helps carry out Drexel University College of Medicine's commitment to making women's health a key strategic goal. Guided by director Lynn Yeakel, the Institute inspires women of all ages to take charge of their health and discover their potential.
Learn more about the Institute
For additional information, contact:
Institute for Women's Health and Leadership
Drexel University College of Medicine
1601 Cherry Street, Suite 1050
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-255-7373; Fax 215-255-7390
One Institute, Six Missions
- Clinical Mission – To deliver excellent patient care and interdisciplinary medical programs using the latest findings of women's health research
- Community Mission – To inform and educate diverse women of all generations about (a) how to prevent health problems; (b) how to stay informed on health issues; (c) how to learn more about pursuing health careers
- Educational Mission – To enhance the medical education of current and future health professionals by integrating new gender and ethnic medicine curricula into professional and continuing education.
- Leadership Mission – To prepare and support women leaders in academic health and to champion more equitable, inclusive organizational cultures that value and benefit from women's contributions
- Legacy Mission – To embrace a continuum of preserving the finest history of women in medicine and expand access to that history in order to educate and inspire future leaders with the lessons of 155 years of excellence
- Research Mission – To increase knowledge and awareness of sex and gender differences by promoting, coordinating and supporting clinical, basic and social sciences research, and by acting as a catalyst for innovative multidisciplinary collaborations
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History
The Institute for Women's Health and Leadership, with its roots in a century and a half of tradition, is defining its worth through a determination to make history, not just record it.
Named in 1996 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, one of only six such designations in the nation at the time, the Institute has set its professional sights on developing resources and programs that will bridge the gaps in women's health and leadership.
Significant notes:
- The College of Medicine has endowed an academic chair, the Betty A. Cohen Chair in Women's Health, which is held by the Director of the Institute, Lynn Yeakel.
- The Institute is an academic unit within Drexel University College of Medicine.
- The Institute was established in 1993 to address the special health issues of women and to promote medical education and research for women.
Formerly headquartered in The Gatehouse, the oldest surviving building on the campus of the Woman's Medical Hospital (formerly Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital), the institute traces its origins to Woman's Medical College, established in 1850 as the first institution in the world to grant medical degrees to women. The Institute seeks to combine the various programs on women's health, including sex and gender research, throughout the university into a coordinated, interdisciplinary effort and promote leadership development and recognition of women's leadership in medicine locally, nationally and internationally.
Proud of its heritage, aware of the historical neglect of women's health concerns, and determined to create a new momentum toward improving health care for women and preparing more women for medical leadership, the Institute counts on its legacy for lessons learned, and looks now to an era of acceleration in achieving its goals of equal participation for women in medical practice and progress.
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