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Health Issues highlighted the Women in Government Conference in Tucson, Arizona January 2-5, 2003. The Conference included an orientation session for newly elected legislators. It was held at The Omni Tucson National Hotel where over 120 women legislators gathered, a record number, to share ideas and programs. |
Senator Hoffmann and Joy Newton, founder of Women In Government. WIG is a bi-partisan, non-profit educational association for elected women in state government. Women In Government provides a neutral platform for bringing women policymakers together to share information and seek solutions to timely issues before federal, state and local governments. |
Senator Hoffmann and friend Kathryn Bowers who is a Memphis Tennessee State Representative and a Civil Rights Activist. Representative Bowers hosted high school students from Central New York at the start of the 2001 Civil Rights Connection trip when they visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. |
Senator Hoffmann, New York State Director for WIG, explained her Abandoned Infant Protection Law, designed to save the lives of newborns abandoned by frightened and desperate young mothers. |
During the two day conference Senator Hoffmann moderated a panel session on prison health issues drawing upon her experience creating a task force studying the impact of HIV and TB on the prison system. The busy agenda included sessions on Homeland Security, Electricity Grid Security and Pricing, and the cost of the Rising Epidemic of Obesity in Youth. |
Joy Newton shows off the sponsors who helped make the conference a smashing success. The sponsors include Hoffman-LaRoche Pharmaceuticals, American Chemical Council, American Diabetes Association, American Electrical Power, Bank One, Bayer, Diago, EDS, ExxonMobil, and Genetech. |
Also sponsoring the WIG Conference were Johnson and Johnson, McDonald's, Microsoft, Schering-Plough, Symantec, Abbott Labratories, Alticor (Parent of Amway), Quixtar, Access Business Group, Avon Products, Merck Vaccine Division, National Hemophilia Foundation, and Perry Communications Group. |