For International Women’s Day 2018, against the backdrop of record levels of displacement, Médecins Sans Frontières is highlighting how health needs are exacerbated for women and girls on th... Read more
At the recent Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women’s Health Conference, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women shared their stories, poems, songs and art, as well as many reflections that... Read more
On International Women’s Day, here is some recommended reading/viewing: • The Washington Post: Most of the refugees stuck in Greece are now women and children. • The Change the Record Coalit... Read more
A Shorten Labor Government would support justice targets, justice reinvestment and other measures to “close the justice gap” and address the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strai... Read more
The complexities for public health messaging around women drinking during pregnancy have been highlighted by new research undertaken at the University of Canberra’s News and Media Research C... Read more
At a recent international conference in Sydney, Indigenous women shared some heart-breaking stories about the HIV-related stigma that they and their children have faced. As Marie McInerney r... Read more
Marie McInerney reports: Cairns-based obstetrician and gynaecologist Professor Caroline de Costa was last night named the recipient of the 2013 Sidney Sax Public Health Award, bestowed by th... Read more
Jayashri Kulkarni: Women admitted to psychiatry wards experience high levels of violence and sexual assaults, according to a report released this week by the Victorian Mental Illness Allianc... Read more
The media spotlight has been on the issue of female genital mutilation in the wake of recent arrests in NSW and Federal Government ambitions to eliminate the practice. While there are many p... Read more
Social media channels offer new avenues for engaging young people in research, says Dr Yeshe Fenner, who is involved in a new study of young women’s health in Melbourne. *** Recruiting throu... Read more
