Women’s Health Issues on the Agenda at AIWA’s Annual Meeting on April 28

WINCHESTER, Mass. — Judy Norsigian, prominent speaker and writer on a wide range of women’s health concerns, will be the luncheon speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Armenian International Women’s Association on April 28 at the Winchester Country Club.

Norsigian is executive director and primary spokesperson for the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, a non-profit women’s health education, advocacy, and consulting organization. She also serves on the board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research and on numerous other advisory and editorial boards.

Norsigian had been an author and editor of all editions of the organization’s landmark book on women’s health and sexuality, Our Bodies, Ourselves. The ninth and most recent edition of the book was published by Simon & Schuster in October. The organization has also produced single topic books on menopause (Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause) and pregnancy/birth (Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth).

The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective is widely known for its reliable, evidence-based information (both in its books and blogs) as well as its extensive advocacy of midwives and safe choices in childbearing. Our Bodies, Ourselves has appeared in 26 foreign languages, with about 4.5 million copies in print world-wide. The second edition of the Armenian-language translation was issued last fall.

A graduate of Radcliffe College, Norsigian has received numerous awards, including an honorary doctorate from Boston University. She appears regularly on national television and radio programs in discussions about various aspects of women’s health. She has been seen on Oprah, the Today show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.