Steering Committee

WGH Australia is overseen by a Steering Committee with representatives from each focus area and our founding supporters. The Steering Committee meets four times a year to provide strategic advice to each committee.

 
 

Current committee members

 
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Professor Helena Teede

Professor of Women’s Health and Director Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, School Public Health, Monash University

Chair of the National Women’s Health Research, Translation and Impact Network

Lead NHMRC Centre’s Research Excellence on Women’s Health in Reproductive Life and on PCOS, co-lead on CRE in Healthy Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum

Endocrinologist, Monash Health

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Professor Jacinta Elston

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous) and Head, William Cooper Institute, Monash University

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Professor Susan Sawyer

Geoff and Helen Handbury Chair of Adolescent Health, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne

Director, Centre for Adolescent Health, The Royal Children’s Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

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Associate Professor Jaquelyne Hughes

Principal Research Fellow, Diabetes Program, Wellbeing and Preventable Chronic Diseases Division, Menzies School of Health Research

Nephrologist, Royal Darwin Hospital

 
 
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Professor Julie Bines

Victor & Loti Smorgon Professor of Paediatrics, Dept of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne

Head, Clinical Nutrition, Dept of Gastroenterology & Clinical Nutrition, The Royal Children’s Hospital

Leader, RV3 Vaccine Program, Intestinal Failure & Clinical Nutrition Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

 
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Associate Professor Jacqueline Boyle

Deputy Director Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation (MCHRI)

Lead Women's Public Health and Health Equity Stream,

School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

 
 

Updates

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WGH Australia ‘Meet and Greet’ event in Sydney, 19th June 2024
WGH Australia ‘Meet and Greet’ event in Sydney, 19th June 2024
68th Commission on the Status of Women
68th Commission on the Status of Women
 

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