Promoting and protecting the health of women and girls: In celebration of the Office of Women’s Health on their 25th Anniversary!

RADM Wanda Barfield, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP

Congratulations to CDC’s Office of Women’s Health (OWH) on celebrating 25 years! That’s 25 years of promoting public health research, evidence-based programs, policies, and strategies that improve the health and safety of all women and girls. It is quite an accomplishment.

The Division of Reproductive Health (DRH) is pleased to have collaborated with OWH throughout this time. DRH’s mission to ensure optimal and equitable reproductive health for all makes working with OWH a natural fit. Over the past 25 years, we have made significant progress in the advancement of women’s and girls’ health. Looking back to 1994, DRH released the monograph “From Data to Action: CDC’s Public Health Surveillance for Women, Infants and Children.” It provided an overview of public health surveillance and data programs at CDC that address women’s health. It offered practitioners and planners at the state, local and national levels information on the uses and limitation of such data.