Madeline Boscoe

For over twenty years, Madeline Boscoe worked as a RN in health education and advocacy at the Women’s Health Clinic in Winnipeg. Her leadership and activism on such issues as hormone replacement therapy, Depo Provera, silicone breast implants, the legalization of midwifery, and many other women’s health concerns has ensured that the Clinic remains a leader in women’s health and were instrumental in the 1997 Commonwealth Award for Excellence in Women’s Health for the Clinic.

Madeline is a founding member of the Canadian Women’s Health Network (CWHN), and has been the Executive Director of the CWHN since 1995. Boscoe’s vision, tenacity and diplomacy have helped make the CWHN one of the foremost knowledge brokers in the health arena today, developing it as a critical bridge between and among researchers, clinicians, decision-makers, media, women’s community groups, and the public. She has worked hard to make the CWHN a major leader in supporting gender-based analyses of programs and policies that are fully respectful of diversity, and of the role of structural determinants of health, such as poverty, on health status.