Our Impact

Impact Report 2025

The WHSN Impact Report 2025 showcases some of our key contributions towards improving the health and wellbeing of women and gender diverse Victorians over the last three years.

The report features case studies from across Victoria demonstrating our impact towards:

  • Transforming Victoria’s health system

  • Building safe and equal environments where we live, work, learn and play 

  • Elevating community voice and leadership in health and wellbeing

  • Improving health and wellbeing outcomes for women and gender diverse people 

  • Improving access and outcomes for women and gender diverse people from rural communities 

  • Improving access and outcomes for women and gender diverse people from migrant and refugee communities 

  • Improving access and outcomes for women and gender diverse people with disabilities 

The report highlights what can be achieved when we prioritise health equity and invest in gendered health promotion and primary prevention.

We developed a short animation to accompany the report that explains what health promotion is and how the women’s health sector helps address the systemic drivers of unequal health outcomes. Watch the video and read the report below.


Accessibility Options - ‘Understanding Health Promotion’ video
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Official transcript: click here

Find out more about the initiatives highlighted in the report by following the links below:

Reducing the sexual and reproductive healthcare ‘postcode lottery’

Realising access: Abortion and contraception inequities and enablers in Victoria (WHV)

Establishing a Medical Abortion Clinic at Peninsula Health (WHISE)

Sexual and reproductive health hubs case study (WHISE, GWH, WHWBSW, WHGNE)

Tell Your Story project (WHG)

Mapping access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Regional Victoria (WHWBSW)

Reproductive Coercion: Understanding the implications for migrant and refugee communities (MCWH)

Action for Equity (GenWest)

Addressing the gender pain gap

Joint submission to the Victorian Government’s Inquiry into Women’s Pain (WHSN)

Improving menopause support

Joint submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee inquiry into the issues related to menopause and perimenopause (WHSN)

Mastering Menopause program (WHISE)

Menopause@Work program (WHG)

My Menopause program (WHLM)

Are you covered? magazine (GWH)

How to become a menopause friendly workplace guide (WHE)

Embedding workplace equality and respect

Learning Together partnership (WHWBSW)

Prioritising care before, during and after disaster

Care through Disaster (WHGNE)

Supporting the safety and wellbeing of lived experience experts

Embedding Lived Experience in the Primary Prevention of Gender-Based Violence Framework (WHISE)

Improving rural sexual and reproductive health outcomes

Long Story Short project (WHGNE & WHLM)

A gender lens across Victorian health planning

Regional health planning resources (WHGNE)

Loddon Mallee region gender equity snapshots (WHLM)

Gender and local government planning (WHG)

Victorian Women’s Health Atlas (WHV)

Increasing gender and disability inclusive practice

Prevention of Gender and Disability Based Violence Audit Toolkit (WDV)

Pleasure and Consent Project (WDV)

More effective health communication

Framing sexual and reproductive health (WHSN)

Challenging labia stigma and anxiety

Labia Library website and Real Bodies: Understanding and Celebrating Labia Diversity (WHV)

Increasing sport participation in the Grampians region

Gender equality in sports and recreation (WHG)

Better Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes in Gippsland

Are You Covered? (GWH)