Winter 2006 (PDF - Spelman College

Citigroup Foundation *
Clement & Wynn Program
Managers
Cordy and Company, Inc.
Cosmetic Dentistry of Texas -
Pearland
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store,
Inc.
Creative Minds Enterprise
CSR Incorporated
Cummins. Inc.
DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund
David Foster Photography, Inc.
Delta Air Lines Foundation *
E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.
Ed America
Education First Marketing, LLC
Entergy Services, Inc.
Equifax Foundation *
Exelon Corporation *
ExxonMobil Corporation
ExxonMobil Foundation
Federated Corporate Services, Inc.
Federated Department Stores
Foundation *
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Fleetguard, Inc.
Follett Higher Ed. Group
Forbes
Forbes, Fields and Associates
Freddie Mac Foundation *
Gannett Foundation *
Gap Foundation *
GE Capital
GE Foundation *
General American Mutual Holding
Company
General Motors
General Motors Foundation *
Georgia Power Company, Inc.
Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. *
Georgia Student Finance
Commission
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
Georgia-Pacific Foundation *
Global Impact *
Global Lead, Inc.
Goldman, Sachs & Company *
Hallmark Cards Incorporated
Hallmark Corporate Foundation
Harris Bank Foundation *
Home Depot *
Hospira *
Hughes Management Consulting,
Inc.
IBM Corporation
IBM International Foundation *
Imudani Medical Supplies, Inc.
International Paper Company
Foundation *
John Wieland Homes, Inc.
Johnson & Johnson *
JP Morgan Chase
JP Morgan Chase Foundation *
KeyBank
Kimberly Clark Corporation
Kimberly-Clark Foundation, Inc. *
Lance Lucas, Price & Associates,
LLC
Levi Strauss Foundation *
Lockheed Martin Aeronautical
Systems
Lubo Fund, Inc.
Mandalaray, Inc.
MBNA America *
Mellon Bank *
Merrill Lynch
Michael B. Scott, M.D., Inc.
Microsoft Corporation *
Mobile Media Enterprises, LLC
Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc. *
Motorola Foundation
National Education Loan Network,
Inc.
NCCI Holdings, Inc. *
New York Life Foundation *
Norfolk Southern Foundation *
North Perimeter OB GYN, LLC
Northwestern Mutual Foundation *
Novartis *
PepsiCo Foundation, Inc. *
Pfizer Foundation *
Pfizer, Inc.
PG&E Corporation *
Pharmacia Foundation *
Philips Consumer Electronics
Company *
Procter & Gamble
Public Service Electric & Gas
Company
Publix Supermarkets
Radio Shack *
Richard H. Sewing & Associates
Rufus Smith and Associates
Russell Corporation
S.J. Wright Insurance
SAIC *
Sara Lee Foundation *
Schering-Plough Foundation, Inc. *
Shell Oil Company Foundation *
Siemens Automotive *
Siemens Corporation
Siemens Medical Solutions USA,
Inc.
Standard Insurance Company *
State Farm Insurance Companies
Foundation *
Storagetek Foundation *
Sun Microsystems Foundation, Inc. *
Sunni Gyrl, Inc.
SunTrust Bank Atlanta Foundation *
Talbott International, LLC
The Allstate Foundation *
The Anderson Firm, LLC
The Atlanta Journal and
Constitution
The Campbell Dental Group, LLC
The Coca-Cola Company *
The Home Depot Foundation *
The Humana Foundation, Inc. *
The K. Group, LTD
The May Department Stores
Company
The May Department Stores
Company Foundation *
The Medtronic Foundation *
The Merck Company Foundation *
The Prudential Foundation
The Scholarship Foundation *
The Stanley Works
The UPS Foundation, Inc. *
The Wachovia Foundation of
Georgia *
Tiffany & Co. *
Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. *
TSI Engineering, Inc.
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
UBS Warburg *
UNCF Special Programs
Corporation
United Black Fund of AL, Inc.
United Technologies *
Universal Music Group, Inc. *
US Bank National Association
Verizon
Verizon Foundation *
Virginia Military Institute Research
Laboratories, Inc
W.P. Walker's Vack, Inc.
Washington Hospitality Group, LLC
Washington Mutual Bank
WellPoint Foundation *
Wells Fargo & Company
Wells Fargo Foundation *
Women to Women
Words Without Music, LLC
World Reach, Inc *
Xerox Corporation
Spelman College and Pfizer, Inc: A Partnership to Improve Global Women’s Health
African American and other women of color
disproportionately suffer from what the
National Institutes of Health have described as
the “burden of disease and death.” HIV/AIDS,
obesity, diabetes, kidney failure, heart disease,
and breast and cervical cancer are among a
litany of often preventable diseases which
increasing impact Black women, robbing our
families, communities, and the nation of leadership
and talent.
As part of its commitment to corporate citizenship
and community improvement, Pfizer,
Inc. has awarded the Spelman College Women’s
Research and Resource Center a $300,000 grant
focused on Global Women’s Health. The project’s
goal is to focus attention on the health status
of African-descended and other women of
color and to make a positive impact through
collaborative research, curriculum development,
and service-learning efforts. The grant also supports
the women’s health concentration, the
newest component of the Comparative Women’s
Studies major. Prof. Aline Gubrium, Assistant
Professor of Women’s Studies, has been hired to
teach courses related to women’s health, while
Dr. Lisa Egbuonu-Davis, the first Pfizer Medical
Scholar-in-Residence, teaches a seminar on
“Health Disparities,” and spearheads the inaugural
Pfizer Lecture Series. As part of that series,
Elizabeth Ofili, M.D., M.P.H., Director of Clinical
Research Center and Chief of Cardiology at the
Morehouse School of Medicine, spoke to a standing-room
only audience of faculty and students
on “African American Women and Cardiovascular
Health.” The second lecturer was Claudia
Baquet, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine,
Associate Dean for Policy and Planning, and
Director of the University of Maryland’s Medical
School Center for Health Disparities Research
Outreach and Training, who spoke on “Reducing
Cancer Health Disparities.”
*Indicates 1881 Society Membership
Other the next three years, the Women’s
Center will implement a number of other
activities, including a week-long Summer
Institute in 2007 to help faculty at other
HBCUs explore strategies for incorporating
women’s health issues into the social sciences,
humanities, and natural sciences curricula at
their respective institutions. One of the most
rewarding aspects of the Global Women’s
Health project is the support it provides to students.
Adrienne Brown, a 2005 computer science
graduate of Spelman, was the first Pfizer
Scholar. Brown received support for study this
summer at the University of Cape Town, South
Africa before entering a doctoral program in
biomedical engineering where she hopes to
research health technologies that improve
women’s health. The Women’s Center will
name two additional undergraduate Pfizer
Scholars this academic year and another six
before the grant concludes in 2007. The culminating
event of the project is a studentorganized
conference on women’s health.
The Pfizer Global Women’s Health initiative
continues Spelman’s long history of producing
African American women in science and
the health professions. Georgia Dwelle Rooks,
the first Spelman alumna to attend medical
school and founder of the first obstetrical hospital
for black women in the city of Atlanta, is
representative of this long standing tradition.
The Pfizer project is under the direction of
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, the Anna Julia Cooper
Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of
the Women’s Research and Resource Center.
The Women’s Center has been engaged in similar
efforts to foster cross disciplinary collaborations
between the humanities, social sciences
and natural sciences, as well as facilitate collaborations
with other universities and organizations
in the area of women’s health. In 1999,
the Women’s Center receive a $250,000 grant
from the Ford Foundation to strengthen the
women’s studies major by inaugurating a new
women’s health concentration and enhancing
the natural sciences curricula by mainstreaming
a range of race and gender issues into the
natural science curricula. More recently, the
Women’s Center, with support from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID),
ExxonMobil and Pfizer sponsored an international
conference on “Women, Girls, and
HIV/AIDS in Africa and the African Diaspora,”
which took place in June 2004. Delegations of
scholars, healthcare professionals, community
activists, graduate students and women living
with AIDS attended from the Caribbean, Brazil,
South Africa, and West Africa.
Pfizer, Inc. is the world’s largest researchbased
pharmaceutical firm devoted to healthcare.
In May, the Pfizer Foundation
announced a new grant program aimed at
preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in the
southern United States, with particular focus
on under-served African-American and Latino
communities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
“Comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention programs
focused on communities most at risk are
our best defense against this deadly disease,”
said Hank McKinnell, member of The Pfizer
Foundation Board of Directors and Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer Inc. “By
partnering with organizations in small towns
and big cities across the South, we hope to help
slow the increasing incidence of HIV/AIDS.”
The Pfizer project enables Spelman College to
contribute to the eradication of HIV/AIDS and
other diseases that disproportionately impact
people of color around the globe.
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