At a recent forum a public health researcher was asked whether her large population study had included any groups from non-English speaking backgrounds. The researcher responded that there was ‘no single population group big enough in Australia that would be…
60 seconds with Kristine Olaris
Environmentalist, politics addict and CEO of Women’s Health East What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Lots of walking! I am doing a 6 day walk in Tasmania in February (Cradle Mountain) and need to get fit. I love walking…
The WRAP #26: Rainbows, risky business and 60 seconds with Daine Lauren
Beyond the opportunities for sugar provided by Halloween this weekend, beyond All Saint’s Day, All Soul’s Day and Ashura, which all fall in the next few days, this is a special time of year for many lucky Melbournians and…
Risky business
For want of a better metaphor (or is it a simile?), health promotion is a bit like being a bookmaker, in terms of helping people weigh up the odds. Sometimes the decisions we make in relation to our own health…
Somewhere over the rainbow
The LGBTIQ rainbow symbolically covers all diversity within its arches. It is an open, bright and positively welcoming flag that many of us, who stand somewhere within its colours, are proud to fly. But what of women and trans people…
60 seconds with Daine Lauren
Blogger, penny board enthusiast and 11 year old What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Penny boarding along the beach, and playing my electric guitar. If you were a super-heroine, what powers would you like to have? I…
Our bilingual health educator receives prestigious Heart Foundation award
Last night members of MCWH were privileged to attend the Second Heart Foundation Awards Dinner in Melbourne, to celebrate the outstanding acheivements of one of our bilingual health educators. Elizabeth Mazeyko is one of only three recipients of the prestigious…
The WRAP #25: Abortion Stigma, Men and 60 seconds with Sarah Soysa
Last week we went to the launch of the VicHealth 2013 National Community Attitudes Survey, which you no doubt found as profoundly disturbing as we did. And of course it made us think about attitudes. Attitudes to violence, to women,…
Abortion stigma: shame on you
Safe and legal access to abortion, like clean drinking water and poverty, is often thought about in ‘third world’ terms. Australia is, after all, the ‘lucky country’, with a not-perfect, but nevertheless top class public health system, right? As we…
Engaging men in violence prevention: gender equity in practice
As many of us know, the way to eliminate violence against women is to achieve gender equality. We also know that in order to end violence against women, all of us—women and men—need to work together. What is often less…