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Date: April 9, 1996
Contact: Mary Caffrey (609) 258-5748

Shalala to Give Keynote Address at Annual Sigmund Symposium

Princeton, N.J. -- Donna E. Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, will be the keynote speaker at the 6th annual Barbara Boggs Sigmund Symposium on Women and Poverty. Secretary Shalala will speak at 4:30 p.m. April 19 in McCosh 10.

This year's symposium, titled ``Women and Poverty: Health Concerns through the Life Cycle,'' will continue on April 20 and feature experts on prenatal care, nutrition and eating disorders, teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and breast cancer. Panels will also address health care access, insurance coverage and domestic violence.

Shalala, one of the nation's leading advocates for children and families, is a leader in the Clinton Administration's efforts to reform health care and welfare, to strengthen biomedical research and to increase AIDS research, treatment and prevention. Shalala co-chaired the U.S. delegation to the United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Before her appointment by President Clinton in January 1993, Shalala served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a board member for the Children's Defense Fund for more than a decade.

Shalala is one of more than a dozen prominent women in academia, government and the health professions who will speak at this year's Women and Poverty symposium. The annual conference honors Barbara Boggs Sigmund, who was in her second term as mayor of Princeton Borough when she died of cancer in 1990. Sigmund, twice a candidate for statewide office, was active in women's causes throughout her life. She was especially well-known for her efforts on behalf of victims of domestic violence.

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