Hope Award for Advocacy Recipient
The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) works to advance women in medicine, advocate for equity, and ensure excellence in healthcare. Founded in 1915, AMWA is the oldest multispecialty organization of women physicians and the vision and voice of women in medicine.
In 2020, AMWA launched a Physician Fertility Committee to address the infertility issues among women physicians who experience infertility at a rate double that of the general population. In 2021, AMWA hosted the first Physician Fertility Summit to convene stakeholders around this important topic, followed by in-depth seminars in 2022 around storytelling, advocacy, and building a reproductive life plan. AMWA has also created their version of RESOLVE's Coverage at Work Toolkit for their members to use at their place of employment to advocate for coverage. AMWA is a Community Partner for RESOLVE's Annual Advocacy Day and National Infertility Awareness Week.