About Us

The Australian Women's Health Network (AWHN) is the peak organisation for women's health in Australia. AWHN is a not-for-profit network run primarily by volunteers to maintain and advance a national voice on women's health through advocacy and information sharing. AWHN is an umbrella organisation for State and Territory Women’s Health Networks, and other national organisations which embrace its objectives and philosophy.

The broad aims of AWHN are:

To maintain and increase a national focus on women's health issues.
To be a national advocacy and information sharing organisation.
To be an umbrella organisation for State and Territory women's health networks and for other national women's organisations which embrace our objectives and philosophy.

The main objectives of the AWHN are as follows:

To promote a social view of women's health.
To lobby and advocate on issues affecting women's health.
To provide support for women to participate in all decision making which affects health and wellbeing.
To promote fairness within the health system and equitable access to services for all women, in particular those women who are disadvantaged by race, class, education, age, poverty, sexuality, disability, geographical location, cultural isolation and language.
To work towards securing women's control over and responsibility for our own sexual health and reproduction.
To promote a woman-centred analysis of all models of health care and research.
To provide a connection to support and foster the strengthening of State and Territory women's health networks.
To support and foster the development of women's health services to provide a framework for consultations with women on strategies for the formation and implementation of policy on health issues.