Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) is currently serving its term as President of the General Assembly of the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) Global Alliance. BCNA and the ABC Global Alliance invite you as health professionals to take part in a survey and to share the patient survey amongst your networks of MBC consumers.
Call for participants: Looking for women doctors in Australia, who identify as belonging to a racially or ethnically underrepresented community, to participate in a confidential interview to explore how the #intersectionality of race, ethnicity, and gender shapes career journeys. Click through for more information and to register your interest.
We would like to find out if any medical women in our organisation Australia wide have come across examples of Women’s health related content having been blocked, eg on Facebook or Youtube etc. Find out why we are seeking input and contribute to the survey.
Our esteemed colleagues, MWIA members have initiated a critically important research project to document and analyze the current status of sex- and gender-based medical education globally.
It’s very important that we as doctors have our say on this. Closing date for written submissions is 3 November 2023.
The health landscape has changed in recent years and the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care wants to make sure the information we provide is relevant to health professionals. The survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete, and closes on 13 October 2023.
An invitation to have your say regarding barriers and gender bias women face in Australia’s healthcare system. The closing date of the survey is 13th October 2023. Growing evidence has shown systemic issues in healthcare delivery and medical research mean women often suffer poorer health results. Women disproportionately experience delayed diagnosis, overprescribing, and a failure to properly investigate symptoms.
This is an invitation to all readers of the AFMW ebulletin to complete the National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality survey and have their say. Final date for submissions is 19th April 2023.
A/Professor Magdalena Simonis, Chair MWIA Scientific and Research Subcommittee presents a summary of the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) survey of COVID-19 experiences of women doctors as healthcare providers. Thank you all for participating, over 1,400 responses received.
PLEASE NOTE – The MWIA COVID-19 Survey closes 30 April 2021. With over 1,400 responses to date, please ensure you have your say. Australian medical women, please visit: the survey here to participate >>. Please share.
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