Dr Karin Hammarberg discusses the fertility related components from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) 2021 report. Over 20 years, HILDA has tracked more than 17,500 people in 9,500 households. Read more in The Conversation.

Karin Hammarberg was interviewed on Mamamia's The Quicky podcast recently, around the mental health toll exacted by IVF treatment, and a recent shift in provider's attitudes to the importance of counselling and emotional support to patients. It's an important listen for anyone considering treatment.

Global and Women's Health honours student alumna, Stephanie McKelvie, discusses her Conversations in Isolation initiative which she established in the early days of the pandemic. Read more in The Age.

The four main contributors to poor mental health in older women include illness and disability, financial insecurity, maltreatment, and loss and grief. Read more in Monash Lens.

Dr Karin Hammarberg discusses how parents can explain complex reproductive health scenarios, such as assisted reproductive technology, to their kids in this Family Planning Victoria podcast.

With some delaying their baby plans due to COVID-19, Dr Karin Hammarberg discusses in MJA's InSight+ how Australian GPs can help their patients use the wait to improve their pre-conception health, so they’re primed for pregnancy and parenthood when the time is right.

As infertility affects one in six Australian couples, experts say there is a problem with how we discuss and approach fertility, and it starts in our teenage years. Read more in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Professor Jane Fisher AO calls for the recognition of grief for all those important moments and events we have missed during COVID-19 in a Jean Hailes podcast for Women's Health Week.

The Global and Women's Health team shared the results of their survey in The Conversation recently. They asked 9,000 Australians about their mental health needs after the pandemic subsides.

In this year's Census, women are being asked how many children they’ve birthed. Dr Karin Hammarberg is questioning why men are not being asked about their fertility, telling SBS's The Feed that reproductive health is “a shared responsibility.

Research shows last year's lockdowns in Victoria were associated with near double the population prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms. Read more in Monash Lens.

Prof Jane Fisher and colleagues have secured funding from VicHealth supporting their work in postpartum mental health promotion for CALD families.

Professor Jane Fisher AO was featured in The Age in a piece focussing on the Global and Women's Health Team's survey from 2020 which found record levels of mental health symptoms during lockdowns.

What happens if you want a baby but you're running out of time? Yumi Stynes seeks expert commentary from Dr Karin Hammarberg and interviews several women experiencing their last shot at pregnancy. Listen on the ABC website.

Timely advice from Professor Jane Fisher on dealing with feelings of anxiety and depression arising from lockdown extension. Watch on the ABC website.

Dr Karin Hammarberg discusses factors surrounding fertility on ABC radio's Life Matters.

Dr Karin Hammarberg was on the advisory board of the Flesh after Fifty exhibition, held at Abbotsford Convent in March 2021. The exhibition challenged negative stereotypes of ageing and celebrated positive images of older women through art. Watch a short documentary on Vimeo.

Dr Shelly Makleff has recently joined the Global and Women's Health team and has already contributed to the discussion surrounding sexuality education in Australia, with recent media coverage in The Conversation. Dr Makleff’s research focuses on global sexual and reproductive health and the evaluation of social and complex interventions.

It is with sadness that the Global and Women's Health Unit announces the death of researcher and advocate Dr Claire Stubber. Claire's life was shaped by her experience as an organ recipient, caused by significant congenital cardiac defects. Reflections on her own life drove her passion for research into improving outcomes and experiences for people receiving donated hearts and lungs. She was admitted to hospital in September 2020 and died two days before Christmas 2020. Claire's friends and colleagues are grateful to have benefited from her warmth, her insight, her sense of humour, and her scholarship. A full obituary is published here.

Dr Karin Hammarberg discusses how a new free online tool may assist people in informing decisions around fertility treatment in The Conversation.