Excerpted from MCWH Board Chair Dr. Tamara Kwarteng’s Gala speech “MCWH started in 1978 as a solution to a serious problem. Migrant women at the time did not have access to information and education about their contraceptive and other reproductive…
As needed now as 40 years ago
Looking at leadership differently
In the wake of renewed calls for gender quotas in Australian parliament, and awkward questions about whether the Liberal party has a “problem” with women, who among us wasn’t inspired to see 9-year old Harper Nielsen’s unambiguous leadership in raising…
Getting Activ(ist)
As we head into Women’s Health Week for 2018, it’s timely to think about those aspects of women’s lives that could change in order to improve our health and wellbeing. Many of us could do with a little more fresh…
Prevention is better than cure
Anyone who works in the area of prevention knows how hard it is to prove the link between that small change we could make today and the gigantic impact that change could make in a month, a year, a decade…
Health Education Program
Project Category: Bilingual Health Education Programs, current, Projects, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Family And Reproductive Rights Education Program (FARREP)
Hidden barriers to happy families
Image of Bernadette Romulo and her son from her current petition to stay in Australia. Migrants and refugees are often associated with families: large, cohesive, argumentative, meddling families, with children at the centre of the action. And yet, migrants…
Then and Now with Tamara Kwarteng
Our new Chairwoman and style guru What were you doing in 1978? I was in the final year of my BSc (Biochemistry and Chemistry) course at the University of Ghana. Course work only occupied part of my time in 1978…
Dr Regina Torres-Quiazon
Department: Staff
Specialty: Tagalog
Director of Programs
Nice to meet you!