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Highlighting Our Members

WCC is fortunate to have so many inspiring, hard-working member organizations. In this monthly series, we are proud to shine a spotlight on the important work folks are doing in cancer control and prevention across the state.

If you're interested in being featured, reach out to info@wicancer.org!

This Month's Member Spotlight

Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation

The Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation (WWHF) was founded in 1997 with a mission to innovate, impact, and improve women’s health.

Now in its 28th year, WWHF provides services to all people across the state of Wisconsin. WWHF employees come from and work in all regions of the state.

WWHF provides critical health services and education throughout Wisconsin through several key programs:

  • First Breath provides support to pregnant and postpartum individuals to make positive changes in tobacco, alcohol, and other substances.
  • GrapeVine connects women with trusted health information and resources to help prevent chronic disease.
  • Well Badger Resource Center is a health information and referral service connecting people to social, health, and government programs available in their communities.

In their work, WWHF collaborates with other organizations on programs including Well Woman and Wise Woman.

WWHF is also a partner on two Community and Cancer Science Network projects - the Mammographic Quality Initiative (MQI) and the Collaborative Work Groups (CWG) Initiative. Both projects apply a transdisciplinary approach to improve cancer disparities.

The MQI includes team members from WWHF, the WI Cancer Collaborative, Medical College of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Well Woman Program, and Evaluation Plus. The project is gathering regional learning collaboratives of mammogram providers to understand where potential differences in the clinical screening process may be contributing to disparities, and direct quality improvement towards equity.

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