#SMCR2015 Plenary Session Video Presentation

Making Menstruation Matter Award, Student Awards and the Mary Anna Friederich Service Award

Presented at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research at The Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights, held June 4-6, 2015, at Suffolk University in Boston, MA.

Awards Coordinator Mindy Erchull hosted the 2015 SMCR awards ceremony on Saturday, June 6th, 2015.

Student awards are given to either undergraduate or graduate students who present high quality research at the conference. Amy Dryden received the Linda McKeever Award and Saniya Ghanoui the Esther Rome Award.

Two long-time SMCR members–Joan Chrisler and Elizabeth Kissling–were honored with the Mary Anna Friederich Service Award for their outstanding and unusual service contributions to the Society.

Veteran women’s health advocate Judy Norsigian accepted the Making Menstruation Matter Award on behalf of the Boston-based organization  Our Bodies Ourselves. A non-profit, public interest organization most recently based in Cambridge, MA, USA, OBOS develops and promotes evidence-based information on girls’ and women’s reproductive health and sexuality. Their landmark publication, Our Bodies Ourselves, has sold millions of copies around the world and has been translated into more than two dozen languages.

Working in collaboration with U.S. and global organizations, in more than 30 countries, OBOS vigorously advocates for women’s health by challenging institutions and systems that devalue women and prevent them from having full control over their bodies and their health.

The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research honors this group for these efforts and, in particular, their pioneering historic work around improving femcare product safety and menstrual health and awareness more generally.

Videography courtesy of Rob Lewis.