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News and Events
Women's Health Tasmania hold events throughout the year to inform, entertain and celebrate women. Upcoming events are listed below, advertised in our Newsletter, and on our Facebook page.
Knit Your Bits is a craft project about women’s bodies. During 2021 we asked women to sew, knit or crochet part of their body for an exhibition to celebrate International Women’s Day in March 2022.
Our goal was to create positive understandings of the diversity of women’s bodies using craft and community.
We hosted the first of our webinars on family violence, in partnership with the Women's Legal Service and their Principal Solicitor, Elise Whitmore on November 25, 2021. You can find a recording of the webinar here.
After our popular webinar on vaccine hesitancy, we invited Public Health Physician Dr Shannon Melody back to talk to us about the issues that Tasmanians are asking about.
We can do it! Helping Tasmania deal with vaccine hesitancy
How community sector workers and allied health professionals can help.
The conversation was a live Q & A with Infectious Diseases Physician Dr Katie Flanagan, and Public Health Physician Dr Shannon Melody. Participants asked COVID-or Vaccine-related questions.
Women's Health Tasmania's held a Candidates Forum for the 2021 State Election on April 27. It was a chance for women to put their questions about policy issues affecting women to candidates from the 3 major political parties.
Sarah Courtney (Liberal Party), Cassy O'Connor (Greens) and Rebecca White (Labor Party) formed the panel and responded to questions sent in by you, the audience.
We celebrated International Women’s Day with a free online panel discussion on Wed 10th March. That week was exactly one year since we started to hear, ‘Stand here.’ ‘Stay home’…for all our sakes’.
Women’s Health Tasmania has been nominated for a Community Achievement Award, and we’ve made it to the Semi-Finals. We’ve been nominated for the Physical Activity Award, a section of the Community Achievement Awards.
These awards encourage, acknowledge and reward the valuable contributions individuals, communities and business make around Tasmania.
Due to taking preventative measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 the Women's Health Tasmania centre is closed, but our phone lines, phone counselling service and the Women’s Health Information line remain open. Please call: 6231 3212 or for Women's Health Info Line call 1800 675 028.
****The forum has been cancelled. Health professionals are working on the COVID-19 response currently. We will advertise again when this event is rescheduled****
The event was a fabulous success with more than 220 Rosies counted, a new Pan Pacific Record for the greatest number of women in one place dressed as Rosie the Riveter. And we have had official confirmation, New Zealand did indeed weep at news of our record.
