Helaine Bader
HealthyWomen’s Vice President of Training
Helaine Bader is a passionate public well being advocate and the vice chairman of schooling for HealthyWomen. She has spent the final 20 years within the fields of well being schooling, communications and advocacy — serving to folks perceive methods to keep wholesome and forestall illness; working with grassroots organizations to handle well being disparities and well being literacy in communities all through the U.S.; and bringing multidisciplinary organizations, specialists, and establishments collectively to deal with points by means of collective motion.
Early in her profession, Helaine carried out epidemiological analysis within the perinatology division at a hospital and labored as a fellow within the breast most cancers division of the Nationwide Most cancers Institute. She later managed the worldwide communications technique for a Middle of Excellence in Drug Discovery at GlaxoSmithKline. From 2004 to 2010, Helaine labored for Digene (later QIAGEN), directing the worldwide advocacy efforts in cervical most cancers. She has consulted with quite a few organizations over time, serving to create and implement culturally acceptable instructional and consciousness campaigns to handle disparities in well being. Helaine can also be co-author of “New Dimensions in Girls’s Well being,” now in its eighth version. Helaine has a bachelor of arts diploma from the College of Pennsylvania and a grasp in public well being diploma for the College of Pittsburgh.