Women's Health Leadership Training Program The Women's Health Leadership Training Program offers a variety of lectures, courses, and seminars on women's health and activism for health professionals and paraprofessionals. The educational model combines health information with practical experience in implementing community outreach and intervention. It is based upon a view of women's health that extends beyond reproduction and includes a full range of health requirements; it relates to disease prevention, health promotion, and consumer education in addition to the treatment of illness. It also addresses the complexity of female roles and diversity of needs within a framework that is sensitive to ethnicity, social class and religious affiliation, in addition to gender. The courses are tailored to the needs of specific clients while emphasizing a holistic and comprehensive health care model. Health professionals are offered on-going frameworks and a forum for learning about developments in gender-specific medicine. They learn to implement empowerment programs on issues ranging from breast cancer and heart disease to menopause, postpartum depression and domestic violence. 1. "Women's Health – Not Just Gynecology." In 2004, IAAWH joined forces with the Dina School of Nursing at the Rabin Medical Center, Beillinson Campus to offer nurses and other allied health professionals a comprehensive introduction to women's health issues. In addition to theoretical material, the 23 participants implemented 10 projects in various work places. Topics included the early detection of breast cancer, incontinence prevention, coping with midlife, and cardiological rehabilitation. Project descriptions and the course syllabus are available upon request. 2. "Women and Mental Health Throughout the Life Cycle." Building upon the general introduction to women's health, a course in mental health issues was offered in 2005 at the Dina School of Nursing. This year's projects will replicate a course curriculum or summer program in the various workplaces in which participants are employed. 3. In 2006 IAAWH plans to offer both the general women's health course and the mental health course for professionals.    Conferences  In the decade since its establishment, the Israel Association for the Advancement of Women's Health has been instrumental in placing women's health issues on the public health agenda.  In the 1990's, we organized the first conference on women and heart disease with Barzillai Medical Center in Ashkelon and women's "health dialogues" throughout the country on topics such as breast cancer and menopause.   In 2001 we turned out attention from specific women's health topics to the issues of women's health policy and service delivery with a groundbreaking conference on these topics and in 2002 we gathered 1000 female soldiers and officers to address women's health in the Israel Defense Forces.    This year, IAAWH focused on another unaddressed issue, medical and social attitudes to the uterus and the implications for treatment. The aim was to raise awareness among health professionals and leaders of social change regarding a range of preventative and treatment options for various uterine conditions. 250 people attended the conference on June 6th, at Beit Soraski.