Sisters Fund Recipients

2012 Recipients

Dr. Katherine J. Gold (Family Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology)

Collaborative Development of Interventions to Reduce Intrapartum Stillbirths in Ghana

Low-income nations account for 98 percent of the 3 million stillbirths that occur worldwide each year. While stillbirths affect families, fundamentally they are a women’s health issue, burdening mothers with painful mental, physical, and reproductive health issues. We have collected pilot data providing detailed information about stillbirths over the course of one year at a major tertiary hospital in Ghana, West Africa.  With the support of IRWG’s Sisters Fund, we will conduct a set of international stakeholder meetings to review our detailed data and design a practical, culturally appropriate, and feasible intervention at this hospital to reduce intrapartum stillbirths.

Beth Glover Reed (Social Work and Women's Studies)

Reducing Gendered Health Disparities by Jointly Addressing both Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Use

Intimate partner violence (IPV) and alcohol and other drug problems (AOD) both produce health problems that are more severe for women than men. When these problems occur simultaneously, gendered disparities in resources create challenges to effective treatment. IPV and AOD are two separate fields with different histories and approaches to working with the problem. Few organizations address both, even though better outcomes occur with joint approaches. Our previous research identified 35 organizations that address both IPV and AOD. With Sisters Fund support, we will conduct focus groups and participatory research using electronic methods to identify core elements and differences in nine areas of innovation, and build an emerging "community of practice" to generate knowledge and support for future progress.

 

2011 Recipients

Janis Miller (Nursing)

Jane Hassinger (IRWG and Women's Studies)

Gender-based Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Sisters Fund will support a two-week exploratory visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by a team of four U-M researchers. Visits are scheduled with USAID, HEAL Africa, and the Panzi Hospital, which treats rape victims. The team's findings will support a larger U-M effort to help end the ongoing, brutal, and systematic use of rape as a tool of war in the DRC. U-M will apply its collective expertise to develop interventions for the medical, psychological, and social needs of victims.

2009 Recipients

Barbara Brush

(Nursing, Public Health, and Center for Global Health)
Voices from the Street: Exploring Homeless African American Women's Lived Experiences

Maria Muzik

(Medical School and Psychiatry)
Young Mothers Mentorship Program

Daphne C. Watkins

(Social Work)
Women are from Venus, But What Can They Tell Us about Mars? Black Women’s Perceptions of Black Men’s Depression

2007 Recipients

Catherine L. Benamou

(Literature, Science, and the Arts, American Culture-Latina/o Studies and Screen Arts & Cultures)
Reaching Women–Reaching Out through Spanish-Language Television

Jody R. Lori

(Nursing)
A Critical Analysis of Maternal Mortality in Liberia

Dawn P. Misra

(Public Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Who Profits? Changes in Household Dynamics after Women's Participation in a Poverty-Lending Program in Rural Haiti

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