What: Release of 2009 Tennessee Women’s Health Report Card

When: Tuesday, Aug. 25. The main event will begin at 10 a.m., with a question and answer session and reception to follow, and is expected to end at 11:30 a.m. The audience will include supporters, state and local officials and health experts.

Where: Bridgestone Firestone Conference Center located at the Main Branch of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street in downtown Nashville.

Who: Participants in the press conference include: Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner Susan Cooper, M.S.N., R.N., Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., vice chancellor for Health Affairs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Valerie Montgomery-Rice, M.D., Executive Director of the Center for Women’s Health Research at Meharry Medical College, and Shirley Raines, president of the University of Memphis

Sponsors: A collaborative effort of Vanderbilt Institute for Medicine and Public Health, the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Meharry Medical College, East Tennessee State University, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and the Tennessee Department of Health

About the 2009 Tennessee Women's Health Report Card: This detailed analysis of five years of data provides a comprehensive picture of the health and health care needs of the 3.1 million women in Tennessee. Not only is the Report Card a summary of the condition of women's health, but it also serves as a valuable resource for health care professionals, individual women, researchers, and policy makers. Key measures include chronic illness, infectious disease, health disparities and behaviors, and reproductive outcomes.

For more information: Please contact Women’s Health Research at Vanderbilt at (615) 343-3031 or by e-mail at womenshealthresearch@vanderbilt.edu