Your heroes unveiled

Last month I blogged about a project from the folks at Our Bodies, Ourselves to name our Women's Health Heroes.

And on May 11th they announced the Heroes. 

From the release:

The 2009 inaugural inductees represent seven countries and a wide range of health fields and disciplines. Among them: Elisabeth Bing, founder of Lamaze International; Efua Dorkenoo, an activist against female genital mutilation; Jenni Prokopy, founder and editor of ChronicBabe.com; Susan Corrado, a community parish nurse in Wisconsin; and Bene E. Madunagu, a professor of botany in Nigeria.

Two nominees were selected for special honors: Lisa Copen, founder of Rest Ministries, received the Audience Choice Award, and the Fair Haven (Conn.) Community Health Center Midwifery Group was selected by OBOS.

This event marks OBOS's first annual effort to spotlight the diversity of care, education and activism in communities around the world. Within five years, at least 100 people who have made significant, long-lasting contributions to women's health will be honored for their work as Our Bodies Ourselves Women's Health Heroes.

The full list is here.

Kind of exciting that one of the honorees, Jenni Prokopy from ChronicBabe is speaking at BlogHer!

Congrats to all the winners.

Comments

[Lisa Copen]

Thanks so much for letting people know about this. It was quite an honor to win the audience choice award.

I wanted to let you know that we also sponsor National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week, invisibleillness.com (and Jenni is involved too!)