• Mission Statement
• Goals of the Women's
  Health Office
• Our Definition of Women's
  Health
• Women's Health Office
  Participant Network
• The Women's Health
  Office Provide

Goals of the Women's Health Office

• heighten the Faculty's awareness of, and responsiveness to, the identified health needs of women;

• improve communication and working relationships among women and men with respect to understanding and addressing women's health and gender issues;

• address the unique needs of women faculty, students, and staff within the Faculty of Health Sciences; and

• liaise with other women's health and gender issues committees addressing both policy and educational issues at the provincial, national, and international level.

Our Definition of Women's Health

• Women's health involves women's spiritual, emotional, cultural, and physical well-being, and is determined by the social, political, cultural and economic context of women's lives, as well as by biology.

• In defining women's health, we recognize the validity of women's life experiences, and women's own beliefs about, and experiences of, health.

• We believe that a women should be provided with the opportunity to achieve, sustain and maintain health, as defined by the woman herself, to her full potential.

Women's Health Office Participant Network

• Faculty members;

• Students and staff from Nursing, Rehabilitation Sciences, Medicine and Midwifery;

• Community based health professionals, advocates and activists;

• Representatives from undergraduate and graduate programs campus wide; and

• Community based Women's and health organizations.
  

Women's Health Office Participant Network

• Faculty members;

• Students and staff from Nursing, Rehabilitation Sciences, Medicine and Midwifery;

• Community based health professionals, advocates and activists;

• Representatives from undergraduate and graduate programs campus wide; and

• Community based Women's and health organizations.
  

The Women's Health Office Provides:

• A link between women faculty, students, and staff, a focal point for addressing issues of importance to women within the faculty, and a voice on issues important to women not only within the Faculty of Health Sciences, but at McMaster University to the community at large;

• A clearinghouse for resources on issues relating to women's health and gender issues;

• Our newsletter, distributed 6 times per year, contains updates on Women's Health Office activities; information on local, national and international initiatives and recent developments in women's health in addition to resources, events, research and professional development opportunities. To subscribe free of charge, please forward your name and mailing address to our office;

• Lunchtime Seminar Series - the Office arranges and sponsors interdisciplinary lunchtime topics in on important topics in women's health and gender issues;

• Education - workshops and activities for all members of the Faculty of Health Sciences;

• May Cohen Lecture in Women's Health by leaders and innovators in the field of women's health and gender issues;

• Acts as a resource to both university and community based groups undertaking thier own women's health initiatives.