Advocacy and Conferences | Leichhardt Women's Community Health Centre

Keep watching the Australian Women’s Health Network for news of the

7th Australian Women’s Health Conference

to be held in Sydney in 2013

Leichhardt Women’s takes a broad view of what’s needed to improve women’s health and wellbeing. In doing this we look for opportunities to develop edges for learning and to contribute to the evidence base. Recent examples include:

Three presentations at the 6th Australian Women’s Health Conference in Hobart, May 2010.

The case for a publicly funded support services based on the Leichhardt model for women partners of same sex attracted men in every Australian state and territory
The health benefits of creative movement and,
The role of the women’s health nurse in the community based women’s health setting.

If you’d like to know more about this exciting national women’s health conference visit http://www.awhn.org.au.

In 2007 the women’s health nurse presented a poster on the interventions conducted by her at Leichhardt to facilitate social connection amongst new mothers and reduce post natal depression risk factors, presented at the Tresilian Conference (2007).

Also in 2007 a paper on the efficacy of the women’s health approach in the treatment of depression was delivered at the Women and Depression Conference in Sydney (2007).

Papers on the ‘Issues Experienced by Women Partners of Gay/Bisexual Men’, the ‘Future of Women’s Health Depends on Feminism’ and the best practice service model of the ‘Campsie Well Women Clinic’ were presented at the 5th Australian Women’s Health Conference, Melbourne in 2005.