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A panel of health and human rights experts joined moderator, Meshel Laurie this week to discuss the role of health professionals in advocating for asylum seekers and refugees.

Violence against women has long been recognised as a health issue. Health professionals are often the first point of contact for women at risk of or who have experienced violence, and they are also at risk themselves.

This week the Women’s bids a fond farewell to one of its longest serving medical staff members, Associate Professor John McBain, Head of Reproductive Services.

Safer Care Victoria has launched the Movement Matters campaign which aims to encourage women to seek advice from their midwife or doctor if their baby’s movement declines or stops. It comes as the Women's trials a new app to help expectant mothers.

Doctors at the Women’s have for the first time, captured moving ultrasound images of the lungs of newborn babies as they take their first breaths.

One of Australia’s leading midwifery researchers with an international reputation as a scholar and leader in maternal and newborn health care delivered the 2018 Tracy Maund Oration on 24 October.