MAWH student Erin Rice spoke about her experiences with the Massachusetts Health Care reform at the Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need conference on April 17, 2008.

MAWH students Sandra Zerbo and Stacey Ferguson participated in the Practicum in Advocacy held at at the United Nations in February. The 2008 Practicum brought sixteen women undergraduate and graduate students from schools across the country to observe and participate in UN events, "parallel" (NGO) events, meetings and gatherings at the CSW. The Practicum is a collaboration between the National Women’s Studies Association and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, which is focused on the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meeting.

On February 27, 2008 MAWH faculty sponsored "Being Born in Massachusetts: Pushing for More Midwives" together with the Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, Our Bodies Ourselves, and the Massachusetts Coalition for Midwifery.

Susan Sered and Amy Agigian’s article "Holistic Sickening: Breast Cancer and the Discursive Worlds of Complementary and Alternative Practitioners" was published in the journal Sociology of Health and Illness, February, 2008.

Students in the "Diversity in Women’s Health" class were treated to a visit by Byllye Avery on February 21, 2008. Over her long and rich career, Byllye has worked to improve the welfare of African-American women by creating the National Black Women’s Health Project in 1981. Byllye demonstrated for the class her approach to drawing out women’s personal voices and experiences as a critical step in the process of working towards collective change.

On September 6, 2007, the MAWH welcomed the first cohort of students at a festive opening attended by Suffolk University faculty and administrators, MAWH instructors, and Advisory Board local members Linda Andrist, Sofia Gruskin, Judy Norsigian and Rita Arditti.

Student Darcie Bernier helped organize the WE CAN (Women End the Course of AIDS Now) champagne brunch fundraiser on April 29, 2007, in Hartford, CT.

Advisory Board member and MAWH instructor Judy Norsigian, Executive Director of Our Bodies Ourselves, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Boston University.

Advisory Board member and MAWH instructor Linda Andrist received the Nancy T. Watts Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions.

MAWH Associate Director Susan Sered received a Suffolk University summer research grant to study health and healthcare issues of recently incarcerated Massachusetts women.