Avon Foundation for Women Honorary Chairperson Reese Witherspoon recognized Breast Cancer Awareness Month at the 2011 Global Breast Cancer Congress, where she launched a new Avon Foundation for Women-funded global breast cancer scholarship program.

At the closing session of the 2011 Breast Cancer Global Congress, Witherspoon announced the Avon Global Breast Cancer Clinical Scholars Program, which will fund scholarships for breast cancer specialists from outside the United States to receive advanced training at leading U.S. breast cancer centers. The Congress is a partnership between the Avon Foundation for Women and the U.S. Department of State.

Beginning in 2012, the Avon Global Scholars program will bring up to 50 doctors to the US for an intensive four to eight week training program and preceptorship at one of 12 Avon Foundation-funded breast cancer centers, including Avon Breast Cancer Centers of Excellence at Columbia University-NY Presbyterian Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, Emory University and University of California San Francisco – San Francisco General Hospital. For more information see: www.avonfoundation.org.