Summit

Register to Join Us On March 12th

Interested in attending?

2019 Summit to feature:

Keynote by new Milwaukee Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik
S.H.E. Speaks Series
Panel discussions featuring youth leaders, women who ran for office in 2016 and environmental health experts
LOTS of networking and empowerment opportunities

TENTATIVE AGENDA:
8:00am Registration, Networking, Light Breakfast & Exhibit Table Visits
9:00am Welcome & Kick Off by Sara Finger, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health
9:30am "Whad'ya Know" Women' Health Policy Trivia Game
9:45am Courage to Run Panel
10:45am Networking Break
11:10am SHE Speaks Series #1
11:30am Insight Keynote by Jeanette Kowalik, Milwaukee Health Commissioner
12:00pm Lunch with Networking Time
12:50pm Celebration of Women Leaders
1:00pm Women's Health & the Environment Panel
1:40pm SHE Speaks Series #2
2:10pm Networking Break
2:45pm Raising Youth Voices Panel
3:45pm Mapping Out Our Policy Vision
4:30pm Closing

Need Lodging?

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Best Western Premier Park Hotel under the "2019 WI Women’s Health Advocacy Summit Conference Block". A discounted rate of $129 is being offered to our attendees.

If you need a room, book online or call (608) 285-8000 and ask for the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health block rate by February 11th.

Exhibitors

9to5
Advocate MD
American College of Nurse Midwives – WI
Breast Cancer Recovery
Catholics for Choice
Community Shares of Wisconsin
Embody
End Domestic Abuse
Foundation for Black Women's Wellness
Gilda's Club of Madison
Lung Cancer Research Foundation
Lupus Foundation of America - WI
March of Dimes
Mental Health America of Wisconsin
National Women's Law Center
Numbers4Nonprofits
Ottawa University
Planned Parenthood Action of Wisconsin
Population Connection Action Fund - #Fight4HER
Public Health Madison Dane County
Quartz
ReproAction
SSM Health
UnitedHealthCare Community Plan
UW Department of OB-GYN
Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care
Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services, DPH, Family Health Section, MCH Unit
Wisconsin Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (WFPRHA)
Wisconsin Guild of Midwives
Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation
Zonta Club of Madison

Sponsorship, Exhibit & Advertising Opportunities - Deadline to Sign Up February 1st

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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jeanette Kowalik, Milwaukee Commissioner of Health

Dr. Jeanette Kowalik has over a decade of progressive public health experience representing the life course. She began her career as an intern at the City of Milwaukee Health Department (MHD). Jeanette was drawn to public health, so she attended Northern Illinois University’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program while maintaining full-time employment in the field. Post completion of her MPH, Jeanette attended the Management Academy for Public Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; she began her doctorate in health sciences at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Milwaukee shortly thereafter. Her initial focus was infant mortality disparities among African American and Latinx adolescents; this shifted after she realized the significant gap in research regarding recruitment and retention of the public health workforce. Jeanette completed her coursework and dissertation while working full time for the Wauwatosa Health Department, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, and the Chicago Department of Public Health. In the fall of 2014, Dr. Kowalik returned to Wisconsin and served as UW-Madison’s Director of Prevention and Campus Health Initiatives prior to her transition to the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) in Washington DC. Jeanette served as the Associate Director of Women’s and Infant Health at AMCHP, a professional membership
organization for maternal and child health professionals nationwide. Dr. Kowalik left AMCHP in September of 2018 to return to her hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin to serve as the Commissioner of Health. She is inspired and motivated to move the MHD forward to maximize community impact. Dr. Kowalik’s diverse set of experiences continues to motivate her to advocate and represent those who are unable to “have a seat at the table.”