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title: "\"Our Bodies, Ourselves\" Expands Its Impact"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# "Our Bodies, Ourselves" Expands Its Impact

By Andrea Grant • Suffolk University Magazine • May 2, 2022

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Suffolk University has received an anonymous $2 million gift to endow its Center for Women’s Health & Human Rights, which will enable the center to carry on the mission of the path-breaking book, Our Bodies, Ourselves, through a reinvigorated Our Bodies Ourselves Today online platform providing information and resources on health and sexuality.  
  
The Center for Women’s Health & Human Rights, founded in 2003 under the leadership of Sociology Professor Amy Agigian, is the first academic initiative in the United States to focus on women’s health as a human rights imperative.[Read the full article ](https://www.suffolk.edu/news-features/suffolk-university-magazine-spring-2022/our-bodies-ourselves-expands-its-impact)

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