毕尔利-艾弗里 妇女保健领袖

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Byllye Avery
Women's Healthcare Leader | Class of 1989
Title
Women's Healthcare Leader
Location
Atlanta, Georgia
Age
52 at time of award
Area of Focus
Health Policy
Published August 1, 1989
ABOUT BYLLYE'S WORK
Byllye Avery is the founder of the National Black Women’s Health Project (1981) in Atlanta, Georgia, renamed the Black Women’s Health Imperative.

Avery is a leader in the movement to bring black women of all economic strata in the United States together over issues of health and wellness.  She seeks to improve the health and self-esteem of black women through a holistic approach that addresses poor health and inequalities in health-care delivery.  She works with women who are victims of racial, sexual, and economic oppression.

BIOGRAPHY
Avery co-founded the Gainesville Women's Health Center and alternative birthing center in Gainesville, Florida, (1974–1998) and the Avery Institute for Social Change, a national nonprofit organization confronting disparities in access and delivery of health-care services to communities of color.  She also serves as a clinical professor of population and family health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.  Avery has produced a film about young girls and sexuality entitled On Becoming a Woman (1987) and authored the book, An Altar of Words: Wisdom, Comfort, and Inspiration for African American Women (1998).

Avery received a B.A. (1959) from Talladega College and a M.Ed. (1969) from the University of Florida.

Last updated January 1, 2005.



毕尔利-艾弗里
妇女保健领袖 | 1989级
职称
妇女保健领袖
工作地点
乔治亚州亚特兰大市
年龄
获奖时为52岁
关注领域
卫生政策
发表于1989年8月1日
关于比尔利的工作
毕尔利-艾弗里是乔治亚州亚特兰大全国黑人妇女健康项目（1981年）的创始人，该项目已更名为 "黑人妇女健康要务"。

艾弗里是将美国各经济阶层的黑人妇女聚集在一起讨论健康和保健问题的运动的领导者。 她试图通过解决健康状况不佳和保健服务不平等的整体方法，改善黑人妇女的健康和自尊。 她与那些受种族、性和经济压迫的妇女合作。

个人简历
艾弗里在佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔共同创办了盖恩斯维尔妇女健康中心和替代性分娩中心（1974-1998年），以及艾弗里社会变革研究所，这是一个全国性的非营利组织，致力于解决有色人种社区获得和提供保健服务方面的差距。 她还在哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院担任人口和家庭健康的临床教授。 艾弗里制作了一部关于年轻女孩和性行为的电影《成为女人》（1987年），并撰写了《话语的祭坛》一书。非裔美国妇女的智慧、安慰和灵感》（1998）。

艾弗里在塔拉迪加学院获得学士学位（1959年），在佛罗里达大学获得教育硕士学位（1969年）。

最后更新于2005年1月1日。