The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) has announced an important evolution of their national Health in My Language program, funded by the Commonwealth Government to run until June 2025.
Media Release: Multilingual COVID-19 Health Program Helps Improve Employment Outcomes for Migrant Women in Australia
Assisting skilled migrant women to find employment unlocks a vast pool of talent that is currently undervalued.
Bilingual health program receives funding boost in preparation for winter flu season.
The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health is pleased to announce that the National Health in My Language program has been extended to 30 June 2023. In just six months since its launch, over 700 health education sessions have been delivered…
Life-saving multilingual COVID-19 health education program launches
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.
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.