For migrant and refugee communities, access to in-language and culturally tailored health information can be a matter of life or death. The Advocate covers how our Health in My Language project is working to address this.
MCWH launches their first national multilingual health education program
We are excited to announce the launch of our first national COVID-19 health education program, Health in My Language.
Antenatal care in Australia: what is it and why it’s important?
Executive Director of the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health, Dr Adele Murdolo, spoke to SBS about the importance of timely antenatal care, and why socioeconomic disadvantage can cause migrant women to access antenatal care at a much later point than other non-migrant women.
Improving mental health among migrant and refugee women
We are excited to announce the launch of our new advocacy and research project, Building Bridges, which aims to strengthen mental health services for migrant and refugee women through direct participation of the community in the mental health reform process.
Understanding risks of stillbirth and what you can do to reduce it
Our health educator Gagan Kaur Cheema spoke to SBS Punjabi about the Maternal Health Education for Migrant and Refugee Women project which aims to increase awareness on the issue of stillbirth among migrant women.
Women’s health service launches program to give multilingual health education access to migrants and refugees
During the first stages of the pandemic, people who died of COVID-19 and were born overseas had an age-standardised death rate that was 2.5 times higher than people who were born in Australia. What’s causing this disparity in Covid-19 deaths? New data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reveals that for migrant and refugee communities, limited access to in-language and culturally tailored health information is a big contributor.
Our response to 2022/23 Victorian state budget: A welcome boost to equity and wellbeing for migrant and refugee women
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) is delighted that migrant and refugee women will receive a funding boost of $1.57m over two years from today’s Victorian 2022/23 budget, for much needed women’s health programs specifically targeting migrant and refugee women across the state.
Media Release: New funding to address the health impacts of FGM/C
MCWH is excited to announce that we will receive $700,000 to deliver activities to address the health impacts of female genital mutilation on women and girls, announced in the Commonwealth Budget 2022-23.
Victorian Women are sick of small change: Underinvestment in women’s health increases illness and depression
Today CEOs of Victoria’s 12 women’s health services, along with Rainbow Health Australia, are calling for an immediate uplift in investment to secure the health and wellbeing of Victorian women, following the release of alarming data which shows Victorian women have gotten sicker, more anxious and depressed since the commencement of the COVID19 pandemic.
The migrant mothers raising their babies alone amid Australia’s lockdowns
Dr Adele Murdolo says the pandemic has disproportionatly affected mothers from migrant and refugee backgrounds. SBS article by Abby Dinham.