NHMRC supports Monash University's initiative in Advancing Women in Healthcare Leadership

Advancing Women in Healthcare Leadership (AWHL), a national initiative is led by Monash University. It has received funds from the NHMRC together with 17 partners. In order to develop careers, deliver gender equity, and enhance health outcomes, the AWHL research, implementation, and impact initiative aims to increase the number of women in healthcare leadership.

The AWHL is in the process of collecting data about the barriers that women face in building their careers and also the reasons for the lack of women in leadership roles. This crucial funding will make it possible for the implementation to promote equity and change by acknowledging that the burden for change is not only the responsibility of women but rather the systems and organizations in which they are employed.

The evidence-based Women in Leadership Program for leadership development at Monash University is an initiative that includes embedded national Women in Leadership Scholarship Program with 30 Females who belong to mainly rural areas. They will get an opportunity to transform their careers and will be provided with better care. Dr. Belinda Garth, the Lead Research, who lives in rural Victoria and is enthusiastic about equity for rural and remote women, is the creator of this scholarship program.

Professor Helena Teede, the initiatives founder and chief investigator, has highlighted the crucial necessity to move beyond the obstacles and the barriers to find solutions that would give growth to women's careers.

The NHMRC has funded the efforts made by AWHL with nine partners in 2019, and it has since expanded to a $5 million national initiative with 17 partners across professional, medical, and nursing colleges, firms, top health services, the government, and academia.