Project news - Multicultural Centre For Women's Health

Building Bridges Report Released

Building Bridges is an advocacy and research project which enables migrant and refugee people to participate in the mental health reform process and demonstrates what intersectional, targeted prevention and effective community-based programs for migrant and refugee women should look like.

Media Release: Multilingual COVID-19 Health Program Helps Improve Employment Outcomes for Migrant Women in Australia

Assisting skilled migrant women to find employment unlocks a vast pool of talent that is currently undervalued.

Bilingual health program receives funding boost in preparation for winter flu season.  

The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health is pleased to announce that the National Health in My Language program has been extended to 30 June 2023. In just six months since its launch, over 700 health education sessions have been delivered…

Safety and Support in My Language Project Findings Report

MCWH has launched important findings from the Safety and Support in My Language Project, which show the effectiveness of bilingual health education in violence prevention.

Life-saving multilingual COVID-19 health education program launches

For migrant and refugee communities, access to in-language and culturally tailored health information can be a matter of life or death. The Advocate covers how our Health in My Language project is working to address this.

MCWH launches their first national multilingual health education program

We are excited to announce the launch of our first national COVID-19 health education program, Health in My Language.

Women’s health service launches program to give multilingual health education access to migrants and refugees

During the first stages of the pandemic, people who died of COVID-19 and were born overseas had an age-standardised death rate that was 2.5 times higher than people who were born in Australia. What’s causing this disparity in Covid-19 deaths? New data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reveals that for migrant and refugee communities, limited access to in-language and culturally tailored health information is a big contributor.

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Building Bridges Report Released

Media Release: Multilingual COVID-19 Health Program Helps Improve Employment Outcomes for Migrant Women in Australia

Bilingual health program receives funding boost in preparation for winter flu season.

Safety and Support in My Language Project Findings Report

Life-saving multilingual COVID-19 health education program launches

MCWH launches their first national multilingual health education program

Women’s health service launches program to give multilingual health education access to migrants and refugees

Making the Links Project Outcomes and Learnings Report

Making the Links Podcast: Episode 4

Making the Links Podcast: Episode 3