Nau mai, haere mai,

The Menstrual Health Research Network aims to improve the mental, physical, and spiritual hauora of wāhine, menstruators and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand and across the Pacific by promoting and facilitating high-quality research related to the menstrual cycle that is interdisciplinary, collaborative, and encompasses multiple knowledges. 

The Monthly - April

Laura Gemmell-Sinnott is currently based in New York as a Fullbright Scholar as a Visiting Researcher at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Laura's research explores mātauranga Māori about sex, sexuality, and reproductive health and examines how this knowledge can inform more equitable and culturally responsive health policy design. Sexual and reproductive health shapes so many aspects of life. Her goal is to ensure this space receives the attention it deserves, and that policy decisions are informed by Indigenous knowledge, evidence, and lived experience, because our communities deserve nothing less. Laura hopes this research helps shift how sexual and reproductive health is understood and prioritised, not as an afterthought, but as a core component of our health. 

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