Talk Overview Dr Gemma Sharp, founder and director of the 4M consortium, will discuss the emerging (or not so emerging) concept of ‘feminist epidemiology’ and how it can address anti-feminist biases in mainstream epidemiology, public health, and discourses around the health of women. She will discuss some of her own research that has applied this… Read more

This year we have been running a 4M Seminar Series, where each month we host speakers in the field of female and mental health to showcase their research. For World Menopause Day we wanted to highlight two seminars on the menopause! Here at 4M we facilitate research at the intersection of reproductive health and mental… Read more

Speaker – Professor Martha Hickey Martha Hickey is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne. Her clinical and research interests are in menopause, particularly menopause after cancer. She led the first Core Outcome Set for menopause (COMMA) and is now leading an international Priority Setting Partnership in menopause (MAPS). She is… Read more

Speaker – Dr Julie Hennegan Dr Julie Hennegan is a mixed-methods researcher investigating the social determinants of health, and the evaluation of complex social interventions. Her work focuses on menstrual health across high- middle- and low-income country settings. Julie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Burnet Institute where she co-leads the Global Adolescent Health… Read more