Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health: an Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Organisation Created by Immigrant and Refugee Women.

MCWH’s vision is better health and wellbeing for immigrant and refugee women. We understand the issues immigrant and refugee women face when taking control of their health and wellbeing because we are immigrant and refugee women. We believe women sharing health information and experiences is the best way to wellbeing—it’s what we call the woman-to-woman approach and is the basis of our health promotion activities.

This interconnectedness also recognises the peer experience, knowledge, skills and talents it takes to make MCWH Australia’s leading immigrant and refugee women’s health organisation. Our commitment to immigrant and refugee women is guided by our Board, supported by our staff team, and our bilingual Health Educators provide immigrant and refugee women both group and individual access to our unique model of health promotion and education.

MCWH Board
The MCWH Board brings to the organisation considerable talent, skill, experience and expertise, all harnessed to further our commitment to immigrant and refugee women’s health and wellbeing. The Board's Strategic Plan provides MCWH with a blue print to move both the organisation and its vision forward and will soon be available on our website.

Chairperson	Tina Skliros
Deputy Chairperson	Repa Patel
Treasurer	Nanette Desaubin
Board Member	Pana Dokos
Board Member	Dr Millsom S Henry-Waring
Board Member	Sandra Lordanic
Board Member	Gabrielle Marchetti
Board Member	Chris Raab

MCWH Team
We have a wonderful team of women with experience in a myriad of areas including organisational development, project management, professional training, information creation and provision, and health promotion and education—all of which come together to support both immigrant and refugee women’s health and MCWH.

Executive Director	Dr Adele Murdolo
Education & Training Officer	Dr Salma Al-Khudairi
Education & Training Programs Manager	Amira Rahmanovic
FARREP Community Worker	Medina Idriess
Finance Coordinator	Vijaya Arun
Multilingual Library Coordinator	Carmela Pitt
National Project and Advocacy Officer	Dr Pauline Gwatirisa
Office Manager	Ozana Bozic
Project Officer	Carolyn Poljski
Publications & Promotions Coordinator	Anna Volpe

MCWH Health Educators
Our bilingual Health Educators (BHEs) are trained to provide immigrant and refugee women with high quality multilingual health education and information in a multicultural context. Below is a list of our current Educators. This list may change, so please don't hesitate to contact us if your language isn't listed.

Language	Educator(s)	Bio
Amharic	Hassenet Younis
Arabic	Wafa Ibrahim
Arabic	Medina Idriess
Arabic	Victoria Lolika (Sudanese Arabic)
Cantonese	Rebecca He Li
Cantonese	Yanping Xu
Croatian	Marianna Jerbic
Dari	Mahdokht Mahboobi
Dari	Faranak Safaei
Farsi	Mahdokht Mahboobi
Farsi	Faranak Safaei
Greek	Cally Ituarte
Hindi	Sonali Deshpande
Italian	Violetta Marcianó
Macedonian	Irina Zdravevska
Mandarin	Yanping Xu
Somali	Khadija Hashi
Spanish	Soledad Diaz
Spanish	Elizabeth Mazeyko
Tagalog	Christie Rivera
Thai	Rachanee Naksuk
Tigre	Medina Idriess
Tigrigna	Medina Idriess
Turkish	Sevgi Bulut
Vietnamese	Chau Bao Tran
Vietnamese	Hien Tran