Women's Health Luncheon

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Key Info
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Event Date

May 9, 2025

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Location

SoWa Power Station, 550 Harrison Avenue, Boston

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Contact Devyn Vinson

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Phone

857 360 2149

Your Impact on Women’s Health

Proceeds from the Women’s Health Luncheon support the work being done across the Brigham and Mass General Brigham to better understand and improve the health of women. Our work is concentrated in specific areas, including the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology and the Division of Women’s Health—who share a mission to transform the health and well-being of women and collaborate closely on many initiatives.

About the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology

The mission of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology is to ignite change in the health of women through catalyzing research, bolstering knowledge, and transforming training for the next generation of leaders in medicine.

There has been significant progress in women’s health research during the past few decades, in part due to research at the Connors Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. However, the extent to which diseases, drugs, devices, and other therapeutic innovations may impact women and men differently is still unknown for a wide range of health conditions. As such, the Connors Center strives to change this paradigm with cutting-edge research that expands our knowledge about how conditions and diseases affect women differently. Through this work, the Connors Center aims to encourage the global research community to imbue all medical research with a sex and gender lens, with the ultimate goal of advancing the health of every woman.

To help carry out its mission, the Connors Center seeks to train new leaders in women’s health research and provide critical seed funding to early-career investigators. In addition, Connors Center faculty advance sex- and gender-informed curricula and other educational resources for physicians and scientists-in-training and continue to be leading advocates for policy changes that will improve healthcare for women in Boston and around the world.

About the Division of Women’s Health

Building upon years of experience in multidisciplinary research and developing integrated models of care, the Division of Women’s Health advances our vision for cutting-edge innovation and discovery in women’s health. The division is home to the Gretchen S. and Edward A. Fish Center for Women’s Health, a national leader in women’s clinical care within an academic medical center. In addition to providing seamless, high-quality, affordable patient-centered care, the center has become a highly sought after training site for fellows and residents pursuing careers in women’s health clinical care.

Our research faculty within the Division of Women’s Health lead scientific and clinical discoveries that identify and explain sex- and gender-based differences in health and disease. Our faculty conduct epidemiological and translational research in the following areas of focus: cancer screening and prevention; cardiovascular disease; clinical neuroscience and neuroendocrinology; gender-based violence and trauma; global women’s health; life course and reproductive epidemiology; and women’s health policy research and advocacy.

When you join our Women’s Health Luncheon, you support our collective work to advance care for women everywhere, including “our mothers, our daughters, ourselves.” Thank you for your support.