‘Healthy women’: a webinar and podcast series on women’s health and wellbeing
When: 12-1pm QLD/AEST Thursday 9 October 2025
Presented by Professor Sandra Creamer AM (Waanyi Kalkadoon), the CEO of the Australian Women’s Health Alliance and Associate Professor Nina Lansbury (non-Indigenous ally), School of Public Health, The University of Queensland.
Upcoming episode: Women’s mental health and wellbeing
This year, during Queensland Mental Health Week, we want to discuss the range of challenges that women face with their mental health, but focus on the pathways to achieving and maintaining mental wellbeing.
This webinar will explore a range of mental health stressors. Including impacts from climate change- including 2025 flooding and cyclone events in Queensland- and ongoing aspects for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
Presenters:
Our speakers include Dr Tanja Hirvonen, a Jaru and Bunuba woman and a clinical psychologist and mid-career researcher with expertise in mental health, social and emotional wellbeing, suicide prevention and working with persons impacted by trauma; Professor Sandra Creamer AM, a Waanyi Kalkadoon woman, Indigenous women’s rights leader and the CEO of the Australian Women’s Health Alliance; and Associate Professor Fiona Charlson, whose research takes a particular focus on the impacts of climate change on vulnerable and conflict-affected populations.
This webinar will discuss responses to mental health, options for women to raise their voices and priorities to decision-makers, and self-care.
This episode of the Healthy Women series on ‘Women’s mental health and wellbeing’ will be held from 12-1pm QLD/AEST on Thursday 9 October 2025.
Webinar and podcast overview:
Our new webinar series and associated podcast will bring 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.
The host organisations gratefully acknowledge funding support from the Queensland Mental Health Commission for this episode.