Women’s Health Fair Offers Life-Improving Information
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus on April 1

Brooklyn, N.Y. — Don’t fool around with your health! Find out how to improve your life with the latest information about hormone replacement therapy, osteoporosis and much more at a women’s health fair at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

The Campus’s Gender Studies Program is sponsoring the fifth annual health fair on Tuesday, April 1 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free and open to the public, it will take place at various locations around campus.

"It’s a wonderful opportunity to focus on health promotion and health education for women of all ages," said Anne Scott, director of the Campus’s Division of Occupational Therapy, and an organizer of the event.

The fair will feature lectures, health exhibits by community agencies and Campus programs, a tai-chi demonstration and a student poster contest.

Health exhibits will be displayed in the Humanities Building Lobby from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. About 25 groups will exhibit, including Brooklyn Hospital, Brooklyn YWCA (with information about free mammograms), Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, and Haitian Women’s Programs. Brooklyn Campus exhibits include the LIU Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic and the LIU Physical Rehabilitation Clinic.

Also, between 11 a.m. and 12, a student poster contest will be held in the Humanities Lobby. The poster displays will focus on educational and research topics related to women’s health.

A tai-chi demonstration will be lead by Linda Baum from 12 to 1 p.m. in Health Sciences, Room 519. Updates on HRT by Elaena Quattrochi and on osteoporosis by Helen Kourlas, both from the pharmacy division, will take place from 2:15 to 3:15 in Health Sciences, Room 118, followed by a reception and awards ceremony for the student poster contest.

For more information, call Anne Scott at (718) 780-4507; or Winnie Olivaria at (718) 780-4508.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including nearly 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.