The second precipitating event was a meeting at the Genetic Alliance conference in Washington D.C. in July 2005.
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The network was initiated through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of their support for global health advocacy.
For example, Health Advocate, Inc., a large health advocacy company that references employee benefit plans from over 6,000 employers, has a large push to update their system leading up to open enrollment, typically January 1 of each year.
The NWHN was founded in 1975 by Barbara Seaman, Alice Wolfson, Belita Cowan, Mary Howell, M.D., and Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. as a lobby group for women's health advocacy.