Summit

Save Your Seat Now: March 9, 2020

2020 Summit to feature:

Keynote by Dr. Lauren Powell, Executive Director of TIME'S UP Healthcare
S.H.E. Speaks Series
Presentation by Sally Bean with Zonta Club International
LOTS of networking and empowerment opportunities
Menstrual Product Collection Drive

Exhibitors

Breast Cancer Recovery Foundation
Gilda's Club of Madison
Ottawa University
Rogers Memorial Hospital
Wisconsin Council for the Blind & Visually Impaired

Need Lodging?

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Best Western Premier Park Hotel for Sunday, March 8th under the "2020 WI Women’s Health Advocacy Summit Conference Block". A discounted rate of $139 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 16th.

Sponsorship, Exhibit & Advertising Opportunities - Deadline: February 3rd

2020 EMPOWER LEVEL SPONSORS

2020 ENGAGE LEVEL SPONSORS

2020 EDUCATE LEVEL SPONSORS

Media Sponsor

Keynote Speakers

Lauren Powell, MPA, PhD, Executive Director of TIME'S UP Healthcare

Dr. Lauren Powell leads TIME’S UP Healthcare, which is focused on reducing sexual harassment and discrimination towards providers and patients alike in all health care-related fields. A lifelong champion of racial and social equity, Lauren joins TIME’S UP from the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Health Equity (OHE), where she pioneered innovative programs and initiatives to increase equity, diversity, and inclusion in health across the Commonwealth.

Lauren holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana, a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Doctorate in Clinical & Population Health Research from the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

2020 S.H.E. Speakers

Tekema Balentine

Ana Karen Manriquez Prado

Dr. Jasmine Zapata

Denise Jess

Veronica Figueroa-Velez

Shehrose Charania

Protecting Our Democracy Panel

Carlene Bechen, Wisconsin Voices

Sara Eskrich, Democracy Found

Shauntay Nelson, All Voting is Local

2019 Summit featured:

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

View the Agenda for the 2019 Summit

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

2019 EMPOWER LEVEL SPONSORS

2019 ENGAGE LEVEL SPONSORS

2019 EDUCATE LEVEL SPONSORS

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Media Sponsor

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.”