Research themes and projects at the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society

Health services and technology

The KCWHS conducts a diverse range of research on health services for women and young people and the effect of technological interventions on women’s health . Research in these areas variously focuses on screening programs, governance, evaluation of practice in relation to evidence based guidelines, communications styles with socially disadvantaged sub-populations and culturally and linguistically diverse women; critical analysis of the ideas and policies that inform service delivery; client access, uptake, satisfaction and engagement with services; and service provider reflections on practice. KCWHS also conducts research in partnership with health and welfare services.

Related Projects

Cervical cancer, HPV and vaccination: What do women know?

Exposure to high dose estrogens in adolescence: Long term effects on mammographic breast density

The facts of life: Identity and family among users of donor sperm, eggs and embryos

The health and wellbeing of international students at The University of Melbourne

The importance of age, use of hormone replacement therapy and mammographic density on the accuracy of mammographic screening

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in detection of Candida albicans for confirmation of clinical diagnosis of nipple thrush

A qualitative study of the provision of risk management information to women at high genetic risk of breast cancer

A qualitative study of screening practices and breast cancer risk

Reliability of the Hazelbaker assessment tool

Supporting parents in telling adolescents about their donor-assisted conception: Research, resource development, public information

Uptake of offer to receive genetic information about genetic mutations in the Victorian Colorectal Cancer Family Study

Within-individual variation in breast density across time and HRT and menopausal status