A distinguished and nationally recognized leader in the women’s health movement. In addition to being Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Yale School of Medicine, she is the founder and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY), the largest interdisciplinary women’s health research program in the country. WHRY initiates new research answering pressing health questions for women and focusing on the importance of gender difference in understanding a variety of conditions affecting women, including cancers, osteoporosis and heart disease. WHRY builds research collaborations nationally and launches new investigators into careers studying gender and health. A prolific author and expert on stress and depression in women, Dr. Mazure has won numerous awards for her research including the Marion Spencer Fay Award from the Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership and the Distinguished Leadership Award for Scholarship from the American Psychological Association. She has been an invited speaker at diverse venues ranging from NASA to the Smithsonian Institution. She has testified to the U.S. Congress on funding women’s health research, served as a Public Health Policy Fellow in Congress, and was a member of the Surgeon General’s workshop on women’s mental health
