{"id":191234,"date":"2021-02-09T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?page_id=191234"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:52:04","slug":"black-womens-health-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/research\/centers-and-groups\/black-womens-health-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Women\u2019s Health Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bwhs\/\">Black Women\u2019s Health Study<\/a> (BWHS) is a prospective follow-up study of 59,000 self-identified Black\/African American women from across the U.S. which began in 1995.\u00a0 The study\u2019s major goal is to assess risk factors for cancers and other major illnesses in Black women.\u00a0 Follow-up of participants every two years has yielded a rich resource for prospective analyses of the effects of a variety of behavioral, social, environmental, and genetic factors.\u00a0 The BWHS is led by investigators from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/slone\/\">Slone Epidemiology Center<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/profile\/julie-palmer\/\">Dr. Julie Palmer<\/a> <span>and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/profile\/kimberly-bertrand\/\">Dr. Kimberly Bertrand<\/a> <span>of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/\">BU Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/yvette-cozier\/\">Dr. Yvette Cozier<\/a> <span>of the BU School of Public Health<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage you to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bwhs\/\">BWHS<\/a> website to learn more about the history of the study, relevant publications, and resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Women\u2019s Health Study (BWHS) is a prospective follow-up study of 59,000 self-identified Black\/African American women from across the U.S. which began in 1995.\u00a0 The study\u2019s major goal is to assess risk factors for cancers and other major illnesses in Black women.\u00a0 Follow-up of participants every two years has yielded a rich resource for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8472,"featured_media":0,"parent":222673,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"profile_tax":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220982,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191234\/revisions\/220982"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=191234"},{"taxonomy":"profile_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_tax?post=191234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}