• Master of Arts in Women’s Health

The Sociology Department offers a Master of Arts degree in Women’s Health (MAWH). This program is the first in the United States to offer a broad-based graduate-level social science degree in Women’s Health. Suffolk’s Program goes beyond a solely biological or clinical model to offer a broad understanding of women’s health as including cultural, emotional, psychosocial, legal, and economic components.

This program aims to educate a new generation of educators, leaders, and advocates who can contribute to women’s health and foster awareness of women’s health issues in a variety of clinical, civic, educational, and community contexts. Combining academic training with a required, hands-on community internship, the program will provide you with intellectual and practical tools for working with women of diverse ages and backgrounds.

Learn coalition-building, community organizing, policy analysis, legislative advocacy, fundraising, marketing, media relations, and public presentation skills. Study health issues that particularly affect women such as reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, eating and body image problems, and the health concerns of our aging population. Through course work, informal seminars, and a three-month internship, you will strengthen your understanding of the social forces that shape the health and lives of women both in the U.S. and internationally.

 

The Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights mourns the passing of MAWH Advisory Board member Rita Arditti.


ATTENTION: March 15, 2010 is the deadline for submitting ALL materials in order to be considered for the Scholarship to Develop Leadership in the African American Women’s Health.


Congratulations to our MAWH graduates!
Dawn S. Choi-Kolack, Malika R. Clinkscales, Stacey A. Ferguson, Sierra J. Harris, Elizabeth Isabelle, Courtney Jones, Joanna E. Prager, Margaret A. Rose, Kristina M. Sandfoss, Ashley M. Shoares, Ashlie B. Willis, Nyjah A. Wyche