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Saturday, April 15, 2023
North Carolina Central University
Long’s Chapel United Methodist Church
Creedmoor Community Center
FREE Mammograms
Women’s Health Awareness (WHA) is an initiative within the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Clinical Research Branch (CRB), Office of Human Research and Community Engagement (OHRCE) that:
Our mission is to inform and empower women to take responsibility for their health, understand their health options, and identify services, thereby increasing equal access to services, resources, and products that best help them prevent and reduce poor health.
The WHA initiative is housed within the Women’s Environmental Health Across the Lifespan Program. This program is designed to enhance research for understudied, underrepresented, and underreported (U3) populations of women.
The objectives of the Women's Environmental Health Across the Lifespan Program are to:
WHA aligns with two themes of the NIEHS 2018-2023 Strategic Plan:
WHA increases environmental awareness in the communities where women live, work, play, and worship to significantly affect their overall health. WHA provides environmental awareness as it relates to health outcomes for women. This initiative brings education, environmental health literacy, and public health to women of the North Carolina Triangle region and beyond for promoting healthier lives, and environmentally safer homes and communities.
WHA is a multidisciplinary approach centered around the goals of disease prevention, control, and management. It brings together public health and environmental health. The initiative consists of various components:
WHA enables NIEHS researchers to build effective health interventions that enhance community resiliency and assist women in developing health strategies for themselves and their families, thereby improving their quality of life. WHA provides a paradigm for NIEHS to be responsive to the community’s needs, with attention to environmental health, exposures, and the U3 population of women.