Healthy Women Webinar Series: Women's Heart Health
When: 12-1pm QLD/AEST Wednesday 29 April
Upcoming episode: Women’s Heart Health
Presented by Professor Sandra Creamer AM (Waanyi Kalkadoon), CEO Australian Women’s Health Alliance and Associate Professor Nina Lansbury, School of Public Health at The University of Queensland.
In the lead up to 2026 Heart Foundation Heart Week, we want to discuss the range of challenges that women face with their heart health including:
- the causes and solutions to rheumatic heart disease, especially in remote and Indigenous communities
- the reasons why the healthcare system and professionals might not detect heart problems in women
- the lessons learned from a lived experience and heart health advocate and where to access resources.
Presenters:
Our speakers include RHD specialist nurse and Noongar woman, Aunty Vicki Wade, Heart Foundation National Manager, Le Smith, and heart disease lived experience representative and heart health advocate, Christine Tawtel.
The Healthy Women Webinar Series
Our new webinar series and associated podcast brings the human face to the story of our health. We hope to translate key research to put the power of decision-making into the hands of women and carers of women. We will do this in a yarning style so that the webinar has a relaxed and inclusive approach.
Each episode, we will reach out through our networks to bring you high quality health research that is tailored for listeners to clearly understand their options and to make informed decisions about their health and that of the people in their care.
We particularly want to communicate to women from priority populations- from migrant backgrounds, from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, from different levels of education, and from different paid and unpaid roles in our society. In doing so, we hope to bring the ‘invisible women’ to the centre of an accessible conversation.
Our series intends to explore a range of health topics that have been raised by and for women as of concern and interest. These lunchtime webinars will be held every 6-8 weeks and be co-hosted by the Australian Women’s Health Alliance and the School of Public Health at The University of Queensland. There is no cost to attend.