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The Advisory Council for Women’s Health Research at Yale is comprised of community leaders with a shared commitment to advancing women’s health research. Council members provide advice, raise awareness about our center, and lead efforts to ensure that Women’s Health Research at Yale thrives long into the future.

The Advisory Council for Women's Health Research at Yale

Laurie M. Benjamin, Carmel Valley, CA
Elisa Spungen Bildner, Montclair, NJ
Kim A. Healey, Fairfield, CT
Sharon Wolfsohn Karp, New Canaan, CT
Susan Lustman Katz, Branford, CT
Katharine Kenny, Richmond, VA
Susanna E. Krentz, Chicago, IL
Ruth L. Lansner, New York, NY
 Kevin McCann, Hartford, CT
Cynthia H. McCraven, Wallingford, CT
Ellen Gibson McGinnis, Ruxton, MD
Ruby H. Melton, West Haven, CT
Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Guilford, CT 
Marta E. Moret, New Haven, CT
Wendy Underwood Naratil, Warren, NJ
Eve Hart Rice, Bedford, NY
Barbara Masters Riley, Guilford, CT
Carol F. Ross, Chair, New Haven, CT
Patricia Russo, New Canaan, CT
Diane Young Turner, Hamden, CT
Diana Seton Wakerley, Hamden, CT
Patricia Doukas Zandy, Hamden, CT

Special Advisors

Kitty Northrop Friedman
Kimberly Goff-Crews, Vice President for Student Life, Yale University
Linda Koch Lorimer, Senior Counselor to the President and Provost, Yale University

Honorary Members

U.S. Representative Rosa L. DeLauro
Joanne Woodward
Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman
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Sex and Science Video Series

Sex and the Science of Testing Meds: You Don’t Know the Half of It

Sex and the Science of Testing Meds: You Don’t Know the Half of It

The need for researchers to study and analyze their data by gender is growing, and doing so can help everybody.

Sex and Heart Disease: You Don’t Know the Half of It

Sex and Heart Disease: You Don’t Know the Half of It

The number one cause of death in the United States, cardiovascular disease kills more women than men, amounting to one in every four female deaths each year. It’s time to learn the other half of the story and change practices that endanger women.
Why Ignore Women: You Don't know the Half of It

Why Ignore Women: You Don't know the Half of It

Women make up more than half of the country but remain underrepresented in studies of diseases that are most likely to kill them. So, what reasons are there to ignore women in health research?
Sex Differences: You Don’t Know the Half of It

Sex Differences: You Don’t Know the Half of It

What’s the biggest difference between women and men? Women’s Health Research at Yale took to the streets of New Haven to ask the community and learned something about how people view sex and gender in 2015.