R. Ann Abercrombie M.L.S.

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Program Manager for womenshealth.gov
and girlshealth.gov

Phone: (202) 401-9588
E-mail: Ann.abercrombie@hhs.gov

Ann Abercrombie is the Program Manager for the National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC), a telephone information referral service and two websites (www.womenshealth.gov and www.girlshealth.gov). In this capacity, she is responsible for managing design and content enhancements to both websites. Ms. Abercrombie also oversees the online fulfillment of hundreds of requests for the Office's print materials on women's and girls' health. She works closely with the Acting Director of the Communications Division on NWHIC's budget, schedules, personnel, print materials, and evaluation.

Ms. Abercrombie retains her responsibilities as the Office's Outreach Librarian, a role she has held since joining OWH in June 1998. In this capacity, she has developed and managed a women's health resource library and data access system to facilitate research. She maintains an inventory of health and medical journals as well as federal publications on women's health topics.

Concurrent with these activities, she is also the Manager of the OWH Exhibits Program. In addition to determining the exhibit schedule, she attends conferences across the country to promote the National Women's Health Information Center, the work of OWH, and the activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Ms. Abercrombie has a Master's degree in Library Service from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Current as of January 2008