The Moslows' $4 Million Gift Transforms Women's Health Education And Research

When Linda Moslow, A16P, A18P, entered perimenopause successful her early 40s, she was blindsided. "I'd ever been patient and grounded successful wellness," she says. "Suddenly, I couldn't admit myself." The months of anxiety, sleeplessness, and disorder that followed near her emotion unmoored until she recovered a squad of doctors who helped her understand what was happening.

The acquisition was some individual and galvanizing. Realizing that millions of women lacked nan support she'd been fortunate to find, Moslow started a organization group of much than 20 women navigating menopause who met play to stock their stories. "Finding ways to amended ourselves and advocator for ourselves was empowering," she says. "But I still wanted a solution connected a larger scale."

Her husband, Jeff Moslow, A86, A16P, A18P, chair of nan Tufts University Board of Trustees, believed that her grassroots effort could-and should-become thing bigger. "It was eye-opening to recognize that, contempt women representing much than half nan population, aesculapian investigation still follows protocols designed for men," he says. "As we talked much astir it, I saw that there's a spread there-and that Tufts is uniquely equipped to adjacent that gap."

That nickname marked a turning point. Confident successful Tufts' collaborative civilization and heavy expertise, Jeff Moslow believed nan assemblage was exceptionally good positioned to lead a translator successful women's health. With world-class programs successful medicine and nutrition and a adjacent business pinch Tufts Medicine, a wellness strategy that prioritizes evidence-based, patient-centered care, Tufts is built to link investigation pinch real-world outcomes, he says. 

Together, nan Moslows approached assemblage leaders, including Christina Economos, NG96, dean of nan Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy astatine Tufts University, and Helen Boucher, dean of Tufts University School of Medicine and main world serviceman of Tufts Medicine. The conversations that began pinch Linda Moslow's group soon crystallized into a shared imagination for change, pinch a scheme to harness Tufts' spot successful research, education, and attraction to amended service women astatine each shape of life.

An integrated approach

Now, fueled by a $4 cardinal gift from nan Moslows, that imagination is taking style arsenic nan Tufts Women's Health and Menopause Initiative, a first-of-its-kind world collaboration uniting nan starring expertise of Tufts University's schools of medicine and nutrition pinch nan renowned Tufts Medicine wellness system.

The Moslows' gift endows 2 inaugural professorships-one astatine nan School of Medicine and 1 astatine nan Friedman School-whose holders will co-direct nan inaugural and thrust its interdisciplinary agenda. Under nan co-directors' leadership, nan inaugural will beforehand objective care, education, and investigation successful caller ways that amended women's wellness crossed nan lifespan.

For Economos, nan effort captures Tufts' tone of collaboration and nan breadth of its strengths. 

"I americium profoundly grateful for nan Moslows' visionary philanthropy and their belief successful Tufts' unsocial imaginable to amended perimenopause and menopause care," she says. "Their transformative gift is allowing america to pioneer nan nation's only world inaugural that brings together nan expertise of a starring schoolhouse of nutrition, aesculapian school, and wellness system. It enables america to redefine women's wellness and longevity."

Boucher echoes this sentiment, emphasizing nan value of world excellence and technological innovation. "With their bonzer gift, Jeff and Linda Moslow are deepening Tufts' activity successful aesculapian education, women's wellness research, and objective care," she says. "Their generosity will empower early clinicians to activity together to support women's wellness crossed nan lifespan and guarantee much women use from nan personalized, evidence-based attraction they deserve." 

The inaugural presents a exemplary for really universities tin mobilize their afloat scope of expertise to reside women's needs. In summation to advancing research, objective practice, and education, Tufts seeks to elevate nan nationalist speech by placing women's wellness astatine nan halfway of world enquiry and nationalist discourse. 

Tufts President Sunil Kumar says nan effort reflects nan university's forward-looking ngo and nan values nan Moslows embody.

Jeff and Linda correspond nan champion of Tufts. Their generosity, curiosity, and committedness to collaboration reflector nan ideals that guideline our Board of Trustees and nan assemblage arsenic a whole. This inaugural is an finance not only successful amended attraction for women everyplace but besides successful nan integrative, discovery-driven attack that defines Tufts' impact."

Sunil Kumar, Tufts President 

Visionary goals to toggle shape women's health

The finance is essential, says Linda Moslow, particularly successful ray of really 1 landmark study upended nan people of women's wellness care. Two decades ago, a ample national study-the Women's Health Initiative-changed nan section almost overnight erstwhile its early findings linked hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to accrued risks of bosom cancer, bosom disease, and stroke. Those results led millions of women and their doctors to wantonness HRT. Only later did researchers recognize that nan study's design-focused mostly connected older, postmenopausal women-had skewed nan results, leaving a procreation of women successful perimenopause without clear guidance aliases care.

The fallout from that infinitesimal still shapes nan measurement that galore women acquisition midlife attraction today-creating nan spread that nan Moslows are helping Tufts to fill.

Building from their catalyzing gift, pinch further philanthropic support, nan inaugural intends to found an world exemplary for compassionate, integrated menopause care, 1 connecting specialists successful nutrition, cardiology, endocrinology, intelligence health, and intersexual health. Through Tufts Medicine's web and telehealth programs, nan dream is to stock these benefits pinch women crossed Massachusetts. In addition, nan inaugural will service arsenic a training crushed for aesculapian residents, dieticians, and different students crossed wellness sciences disciplines to study evidence- and team-based approaches to care.

Education will beryllium cardinal to this work. Tufts plans to embed menopause and women's wellness contented crossed curricula successful its medical, expert assistant, beingness therapy, and nutrition programs. Continuing and executive acquisition offerings will widen this learning to practicing clinicians nationwide, amplifying Tufts' domiciled arsenic a hub for best-practice training. Tufts undergraduates besides will person learning opportunities related to nan program.

Research, too, will anchor nan initiative's efforts. Across disciplines, Tufts scientists attraction connected longevity and patient living. In nan discourse of nan Women's Health and Menopause Initiative, they will research vascular aging, neurobehavioral health, diet, and chronic disease. They besides activity to build a nationalist menopause outcomes registry that links diligent data, objective care, and research, creating an unprecedented instauration for data-driven insights that will style nan early of women's health.

"This is astir giving women support to spot themselves successful nan science," Linda Moslow says. "When investigation yet reflects our reality, we tin make informed choices and unrecorded healthier lives."

"The full conception of nan inaugural is singular because it brings together medicine, nutrition, and manner subject successful a measurement that's ne'er been done before," Jeff Moslow adds. "We're helping to build a exemplary that yet will genuinely service women." 

Inspiring early iInvestment

The Moslows are now looking up to really their gift and Tufts' activity mightiness spark a caller activity of collaboration and philanthropic support for women's health. 

"If we tin motivate different donors to put successful women's health-at Tufts aliases beyond-that would beryllium nan eventual measurement of success," Jeff Moslow says. "When different universities look to Tufts and say, 'Show america really you did it,' that's erstwhile we'll cognize this activity is changing nan modular of care."

Linda Moslow believes nan inaugural will fulfill nan imagination that began pinch a mini circle of women seeking answers. "Seeing Tufts return up this activity and standard it nationally shows what's imaginable erstwhile women's voices are heard," she says. "It's precisely what we hoped for erstwhile this travel began."