This event celebrates Women’s Health Week and ANU’s commitment to supporting women’s health and wellbeing. It is also an opportunity to celebrate progress on ANU’s application to become an accredited Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace in partnership with the Australian Breastfeeding Association. The event is part of the ANU’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access initiatives and reflects the ANU’s commitment to gender equity, family friendly principles and building a healthy work and study environment.

Australian experts will discuss key issues of breastfeeding, work, and women’s health and wellbeing. Reflecting the Women’s Health Week themes around Looking after your health and wellbeing, new mothers can look forward to some pre-session ‘pampering’.

A light lunch will be available during the event.

Women’s health promotion activities: Mothers/parents are also invited to indulge in some pampering or access expert advice on return to work and breastfeeding before the event commences. Between 12.15 and 12.45pm there will be:

• A massage therapist offering 5-minute neck and shoulder massages
• An ANU HR representative to answer questions about parental leave, breastfeeding support upon return to work, superannuation and related queries.
• ABA’s qualified breastfeeding counsellors available to have a ‘mother to mother’ chat or answer questions about breastfeeding and returning to work.

Participants will go into the draw to win indulgent spot prizes.

Speakers include:

• Tony Foley, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University Experience
• Associate Professor Lisa Amir, Principal Research Fellow, La Trobe University, Melbourne
• Associate Professor Susan Jordan, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane
• Professor Gabrielle Bammer, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, ANU
• Professor Catherine Waldby, Director of the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU
• Megan Fox, Regional Representative, Australian Breastfeeding Association
• Honorary Associate Professor Julie Smith, ANU

Please register for the event via this link

The event is organised by the BFW accreditation taskforce team as part of the Supporting Breastfeeding at ANU Working Group. It is supported by the ANU Family Friendly Committee, the Research School of Population Health, the ANU Gender Institute, Pivotal Massage and University House.