This pocket-sized, foldout brochure came about when Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre identified a need for a resource for women who had experienced strangulation that was safe for them to carry. Under the title Head and Neck Health, this brochure supports women to recognise which symptoms of strangulation mean an emergency department visit is necessary,…
This is a social media health promotion campaign about women’s brain injuries. It is designed to build community and service provider knowledge about the link between experiencing domestic, family and sexual violence and brain injury. The evidence-informed approaches taken in each social media tile are drawn from Brain injury: A practitioner guide. While brain injuries…
Women’s Health NSW ran an event called Women, Violence and Brain Injury in late 2025. It brought together a range of experts on women’s brain injuries resulting from violence. These short stories are drawn from the presentations of our speakers. In this short story, Phoebe Nagorcka-Smith points out that we don’t have an accurate national…
In this HealthEd podcast, Lara Graves, psychologist and researcher for the Salvation Army, explores the complex presentation of brain injuries as a result of domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV). Graves discusses the barriers to diagnosing and managing brain injuries caused by violence, emphasising the overlap between symptoms of brain injury, experiences of trauma, mood disorders…
In this HealthEd podcast, colleagues from the Mid Western Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program, Dr Josephine Braid, a Rehabilitation Medicine Physician, and Molly Banks, a Speech Pathologist and Program Manager, remind healthcare providers of the importance of investigating and managing brain injuries resulting from domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV). Dr Braid and Ms Banks explore…