The WHN goal is to provide health education to women in ways that meet their cultural and linguistic needs. It provides information on women's health needs through its web site.

WHN is housed in the Institute for Women's Health and is a collaboration of VCU Libraries, the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Richmond's safety net health care providers through REACH. It provides Internet based women's health resources for health care providers and consumers. The WHN web site includes hundreds of links to national and local sources of health information. This site has links to materials available on the Web in a variety of languages. In particular, many Web sites are specifically for people who speak Spanish. (Note: as of July 2007, the site is no longer being updated regularly.)

The WHN was established in October 2001 and funded in part by a contract from the National Library of Medicine.

For more information, visit the Women's Health Network website.