This submission is a comprehensive report to the Victorian Government’s Inquiry into Women’s Pain. Based on a forum involving 38 migrant and refugee women from Southern Melbourne, this report provides critical insights into the barriers these women face in accessing healthcare and offers actionable recommendations for systemic improvement.

Refugees and humanitarian entrants have different health outcomes and health service use compared with other permanent migrants and with the rest of the Australian population. Understanding their service use can inform and improve policies and services for these diverse populations. This report presents data on service use by humanitarian entrants who arrived in Australia from...

This report, produced in collaboration with the International Science Council, calls for the world to pay heed and respond to a range of emerging challenges that could disrupt planetary health and wellbeing. It presents insights on eight critical global shifts that are accelerating the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity and nature loss and...

Universal screening for domestic violence, and response, is recommended for women in priority populations and has been implemented in health services across diverse jurisdictions. However, this is untested with refugee women accessing settlement services. The Safety and Health after Arrival (SAHAR) study introduced and evaluated a culturally tailored DV identification and response strategy. The report...

This research examines the early development trajectories of children from CALD backgrounds in Australia by exploring the existing evidence base and analysing data from the Australian Early Development Census, conducted every three years. The research found that children from CALD backgrounds are more likely to be developmentally vulnerable at school entry than other children and...