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Junctures in Women's Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies telling the stories of women leaders in public health and health care, from Katsi Cook, Mohawk midwife, to Virginia Apgar, Katharine Dexter McCormick and Florence Schorske Wald, to Marilyn Tavenner, Suerie Moon, and more. The impact of their work is extraordinarily relevant to the current public discourse including subjects such as the global COVID-19 pandemic, disparities in health outcomes, prevention of disease and the impact of the Affordable Care Act. The leadership lessons gleaned from these chapters can be applied to a broad array of disciplines within government, private business, media, philanthropy, pharmaceutical, environmental and health sectors. Each chapter is authored by a well versed and accomplished woman, demonstrating the book's theme that there are many paths within health care and public health. The case study format provides an introductory section providing biographical and historical background, setting the stage for a juncture, or decision point, and the resolution. The women are compelling characters and worth knowing.

WASHINGTON, July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian announced that it will host a special concert event called \"Mother Earth\" Saturday, July 7 from 10:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., with musical performances and speakers from the scientific and American Indian cultural communities in the spirit of the Live Earth message. Live Earth is a 24-hour, seven-continent concert series that will bring together more than 100 music artists to raise awareness of the solutions for climate change. \"As a museum of living cultures, the National Museum of the American Indian is pleased to host 'Mother Earth,'\" said Tim Johnson (Mohawk), acting director of the museum. \"'Mother Earth' is part of the museum's commitment to raising awareness of sustainable living and elevating the understanding of global climate change through innovative educational and cultural programs.\" The broadcast portion of \"Mother Earth\" is being produced by Herring Media Group Inc. of Connecticut. HMG Chairman and CEO Marc Herring said, \"It is an honor and privilege to work with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and collaborate with Live Earth to present this important program and celebrate a new era of ecology awareness.\"

WASHINGTON, July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian announced that it will host a special concert event called \"Mother Earth\" Saturday, July 7 from 10:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., with musical performances and speakers from the scientific and American Indian cultural communities in the spirit of the Live Earth message. Live Earth is a 24-hour, seven-continent concert series that will bring together more than 100 music artists to raise awareness of the solutions for climate change. \"As a museum of living cultures, the National Museum of the American Indian is pleased to host 'Mother Earth,'\" said Tim Johnson (Mohawk), acting director of the museum. \"'Mother Earth' is part of the museum's commitment to raising awareness of sustainable living and elevating the understanding of global climate change through innovative educational and cultural programs.\" The broadcast portion of \"Mother Earth\" is being produced by Herring Media Group Inc. of Connecticut. HMG Chairman and CEO Marc Herring said, \"It is an honor and privilege to work with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and collaborate with Live Earth to present this important program and celebrate a new era of ecology awareness.\"

WASHINGTON, July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Smithsonian's NationalMuseum of the American Indian announced that it will host a special concertevent called \"Mother Earth\" Saturday, July 7, with musical performances andspeakers from the scientific and American Indian cultural communities in thespirit of the Live Earth message. Live Earth is a 24-hour, seven-continentconcert series that will bring together more than 100 music artists to raiseawareness about climate change. As part of this environmental message, themuseum will make the broadcast of Mother Earth available to Live Earth. The concert is free and open to the public. It will take place on the museum's Welcome Plaza at 4th Street and Independence Avenue SW, facing the U.S. Capitol. Mother Earth will begin with an opening ceremony at 10:30 a.m. immediately followed by the concert's first act, Blues Nation, an Oklahoma- based rhythm and blues band. Native American rock, funk, punk, reggae, gospel and Andean music; films; and guest speakers will fill out the day ending with a finale by Blues Nation at 9:30 p.m. The broadcast portion of Mother Earth is being produced by Herring Media Group, Inc. of Connecticut, (HMG). HMG Chairman and CEO Marc Herring, said, \"It is an honor and privilege to work with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and to collaborate with Live Earth to present this important program and to celebrate a new era of ecology awareness.\"

\"Our people are dying,\" Lac du Flambeau Chairman Tom Maulson said at the biennial meeting of the International Joint Commission here Sept. 23-25. \"Not only from alcohol; from cancer, from what we eat -- the deer, the fish. Those animals don't need us, we need them, and we better clean them up.\" \"On our end of the basin we're already seeing neuro-behavioral toxic effects on our children,\" said Katsi Cook, Akwesasne Mohawk, traditional midwife and researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. \"A notice 'Don't eat fish' is not enough. It's a typical science response. It's like saying, 'The air is polluted, don't breathe.' What are we supposed to eat?\" Judy Pratt-Shelly, director of Red Cliff's Environmental Programs, told the conference this type of amendment is essential. \"It's too easy for people to change a law. Laws aren't going to be good enough to protect seven generations.\"

[Katsi Cook] has been concerned that modern medicine has often failed to be sensitive to the importance of their heritage in many aspects of the health and maternal care that aboriginal people now receive. Nevertheless, she stressed that she has an excellent relationship with the physicians she can call on whenever a birthing process experiences serious medical problems.

\"Our traditions survive in doing things the Mohawk way,\" says Katsi Cook, a Mohawk midwife. \"Our whole ceremonial life, our cosmological life, is based on nature. Without that river, we lose Akwesasne.\" While various Mohawk factions have clashed over issues like bingo and slot machines, an overriding concern for the environment has fostered close co-operation on pollution studies, says Henry Lickers. As director of the environmental division of the Mohawk Band Council, he's been fighting pollution for 12 years. It is one of many pollution studies co-ordinated by Mohawk health officials. In the early 1970s, Cornell University veterinarians documented fluoride poisoning of Mohawk cattle. About the same time, a University of Montana scientist found high fluoride levels in plant samples from Cornwall Island.

\"On our end of the basin we're already seeing neuro-behavioral toxic effects on our children,\" she said. \"A notice `Don't eat the fish' is not enough. It's a typical science response. It's like saying, `The air is polluted, don't breathe.' What are we supposed to eat?\"

According to the information booklet on the tour, there are 111 nuclear reactors in the U.S. and all of their nuclear waste storage facilities are full or near capacity. Many communities, mostly native communities and communities of color, have been polluted for decades and now, the storage of nuclear waste on their homelands must be prevented. An article by Mary Olsen, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, states that \"high level nuclear waste is the most dangerous substance ever created by humankind, remaining deadly for 250,000 years. Approximately 35,000 metric tons of this waste sits at the 111 nuclear reactors across the country.\" With this knowledge, the U.S. wants to relocate this waste across hundreds of miles of roadways and railways. It will be traveling through the communities of thousands of people. Not only is the transportation of this waste a mortal health hazard, its storage at Yucca Mountain would be violating the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. This treaty gave the western Shoshone full sovereignty and has already been violated by the initial study of Yucca Mountain. If HR 1270, now before Congress, is passed, it will be in further violation of Shosone's sovereign rights.