-
Date added:November 12 2025
-
Read time:2 min
Jean Hailes for Women’s Health is helping ensure language is no barrier to vital health information, with new in-language menopause resources reaching more than 100,000 people in Australia since their launch in October.
Developed in partnership with Ethnolink, the videos share the lived experience of three women speaking in Punjabi, Arabic, Vietnamese, offering culturally authentic stories about navigating menopause and midlife. Each women shares a simple message with her community, asking them to speak up, seek help when needed and prioritise your health.
There has been encouraging engagement across the Jean Hailes’ social channels, with many women praising the openness and honesty of the conversations. The response suggests these stories are helping to normalise discussions that are often left unsaid, and inspiring others to share their own experiences.
The project builds on insights from Jean Hailes’ recent collaboration with Community Hubs Australia, which explored how women from Punjabi, Arabic, Vietnamese-speaking backgrounds access and trust health information. The findings revealed strong preferences for contemporary visual, bilingual and lived-experience-based content.
Jean Hailes for Women’s Health CEO Dr Sarah White says making women’s health information accessible to all women is a core part of the organisation’s mission.
“We’ve been providing health information on menopause for more than 30 years. For 25 of those years, we’ve worked with First Nations and culturally and linguistically diverse women to understand and meet their information needs,” Dr White says.
“We’re proud to have translated and culturally tailored resources available for a wide range of women’s health topics, and we’ll continue expanding that work so that every woman can access trusted information in the language and format that suits her best.”
