Welcome
The Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership initiates, sponsors, administers and coordinates a wide range of programs to advance women’s health and women’s leadership.
Download the Institute's FY 2011 Annual Report.
Learn more about these programs by visiting the following:
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Vision 2020 is a national initiative developed by the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership at Drexel University College of Medicine to make equality a national priority through shared leadership among women and men.
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Woman One honors annually a woman of outstanding leadership and raises medical scholarships for talented under-represented minority women at Drexel University College of Medicine. The 2012 honoree is Dianne Semingson and the 2012 scholar is Amber Peterson.
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Marion Spencer Fay Award is presented in honor of Marion Spencer Fay, Ph.D., dean and president of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1946 to 1963. The National Board for Women in Medicine established an award in her name in 1963 to recognize her pioneering leadership. The 2011 award recipient is Julie Overbaugh.
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Conversations about Women's Health are the Institute's outreach efforts to underserved communities include these free, interactive programs where expert panelists, usually physicians, provide information on a wide range of health topics.
Other Programs
Sex and Gender Research
Gender and Ethnic Medicine Project (GEM)
About IWHL
Founded in 1993, the Institute was designated as a vanguard National Center of Excellence in Women’s’ Health in 1996. The Institute continues the medical school's 160-year commitment to pioneering programs for women in medicine and science, and implements the current strategic priority, “Excellence in Women’s Health and Leadership.” Affiliated programs in the College of Medicine are the Center for Women’s Health and the Women’s Health Education Program. The Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership functions as a department within the College of Medicine and its director, Lynn H. Yeakel, who holds the Betty A. Cohen Chair in Women’s’ Health, serves on the Executive Committee of the Faculty. It is the only institute recognized in the medical school’s faculty bylaws.
With the overall theme, “Making a World of Difference,” the Institute pursues its mission to “honor the past, enrich the present and create the future.” It will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2013.
Centers
ELAM
The ELAM program focuses on preparing senior women faculty at schools of medicine, dentistry, and public health for institutional leadership positions where they can effect positive change. Plans are under way to extend support of alumnae through a formal Alumnae Association, and to expand the ELAM model to other disciplines, beginning with technology and engineering sciences.
Legacy Center, Archives and Special Collections
The Legacy Center is the repository for the records and heritage of Drexel University College of Medicine and its predecessor institutions, including Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (W/MCP) and Hahnemann University.
Center for Women’s Health Research
The Center for Women’s Health Research is fully operational under the leadership of a renowned researcher and is bringing national recognition to Drexel for its trailblazing agenda.