AFMW
Abortion is legal in Australia – AFMW Statement
The Australian Federation of Medical Women (AFMW) strongly supports the provision of abortion as an essential component of reproductive health care.
June 30, 2022
Category: AFMW Our Work
AFMW
AFMW Bursary 2022 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Purple Bush Medicine Leaves – NOW CLOSED
APPLICATIONS OPEN 23 May – CLOSE 20 June 2022: During Reconciliation Week, the Australian Federation of Medical Women, is making a tangible commitment to the support of continuing education of Aboriginal and Torres’s Strait Islander women in medicine with an inaugural bursary. As part of their commitment to reconciliation and the Makarrata Commission, we would like to encourage and empower a female medical graduate who identifies as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, to further their medical career and/or leadership aspirations. Applications are now being accepted.
May 26, 2022
Advocacy
Community Affairs References Committee: Submission Acknowledgement for the Inquiry into the provision of general practitioner and related primary health services to outer metropolitan, rural, and regional Australians
The AFMW advocacy effort doesn’t stop and this is the recent AFMW Submission for the Inquiry. I’d like to acknowledge the AFMW GP team who helped with this submission, especially given the pressures we face with the rollout of the COVID vaccination programs in each state. Read AFMW’s Submission.
October 28, 2021
AFMW
Yesterday’s climate risks are now reality
This list of updates from The Conversation is all about Climate and why AFMW’s Climate Health Action Group (CHAG is so important. It explains why we as AFMW should be engaged and outspoken on this issue of climate change and climate health impacts.
August 12, 2021
AFMW
AFMW’s Climate Health Action Group Open Letter to Environment Minister Sussan Ley
AFMW’s Climate Health Action Group (CHAG) has written an open letter to Environment Minister Sussan Ley urging her to support the actions of those working to sustain the environment’s wellbeing, and to take actions to protect the environment.
July 28, 2021
AFMW
Recipients of the (2021) Inaugural AFMW Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Purple Bush Medicine Leaves Bursary Announced
As part of NAIDOC Week celebrations, the Australian Federation of Medical Women is pleased to announce the recipients of the Inaugural AFMW Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Purple Bush Medicine Leaves Bursary. Thank you to our kind bursary donors Ms Leann Wilson and Mr Colin Saltmere AM, as we congratulate Ms Tia Gordon, a Ghungalu/Bidjara woman, Dr Kerby Siemsen, a Wiradjuri woman from Weethalle and Dr Sarah McEwan, a Wiradjuri woman from Mudgee.
July 15, 2021
AFMW
AFMW Bursary 2021 – Inaugural AFMW Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Purple Bush Medicine Leaves Bursary
2021 Bursary: We look forward to announcing the successful applicant during NAIDOC week. We would like to thank all our members and affiliated organisations for spreading the word. Contributions to the Project can be made directly online or through the purchase of Purple Bush Medicine Leaves Scarves.
June 24, 2021
Climate Health
Australian Federation of Medical Women (AFMW) Statement on Climate Change
AFMW acknowledges that anthropogenic climate change is an urgent global health and urgent women’s health challenge which occurs mainly due to human related greenhouse gas emissions which results in global warming which is accelerating and will not stabilise without significant human effort at national and international levels to mitigate them.
June 23, 2021
AFMW
AFMW Bursary 2021 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Purple Bush Medicine Leaves
Bursary 2021 Update: During Reconciliation Week, the Australian Federation of Medical Women, is making a tangible commitment to the support of continuing education of Aboriginal and Torres’s Strait Islander women in medicine with an inaugural bursary. As part of their commitment to reconciliation and the Makarrata Commission, we would like to encourage and empower a female medical graduate who identifies as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, to further their medical career and/or leadership aspirations.
June 17, 2021
AFMW
AFMW Announces Our Climate Health Action Group (CHAG) [UPDATED]
UPDATE. New members to the AFMW CHAG welcome PLUS discover 6 Practice Tips to help decarbonize our planet. The AFMW is proud to be a member of the Better Futures Australia Health Working Group, which includes representatives from Doctors for the Environment Australia, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association, and Climate and Health Alliance.
May 20, 2021
