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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 - May

Jackie Smalldridge is a retired O&G specialist of 30 years and now a second year PhD student at the O&G Department, Wellington School of Medicine working remotely from Auckland. Her thesis aims to find out what the hidden curriculum O&G training and practice look like and how misogynistic attitudes and beliefs become assimilated into trainees and specialists. Jackie has completed 40 qualitative interviews with O&G trainees and specialists and will share the emerging findings.

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