14C. ASRH Abstract Session: Social, political & cultural aspects: Lived experience informing relationality and reproductive justice
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| Thursday, September 17, 2026 |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
| Lake Room |
Speaker
Dr Brianna Larsen
Senior Lecturer - Exercise And Sport Science
University of Southern Queensland
Lived Experiences of Endometriosis Among Trans and Gender Diverse People: Burden, Barriers, and Pathways to Inclusive Care
9:00 AM - 9:12 AMBiography
Dr Brianna Larsen is a Senior Lecturer of Sport and Exercise at UniSQ. Her research focuses on menstrual and reproductive health, female athlete physiology and performance, endometriosis, and gender diverse healthcare. She supervises HDR students, collaborates nationally and internationally, and translates research into clinical, community, and educational practice.
Ms Hannah Bambra
Lead Facilitator
The Abortion Project
Co-Presenting: Understanding Peer Support as Abortion Aftercare from the Perspectives of People Who Have Had Abortions
9:12 AM - 9:24 AMBiography
Hannah Bambra is a writer, abortion peer support and reproductive health advocate.
Dr Shelly Makleff
Research Fellow
The University Of Melbourne
Co-Presenting: Understanding Peer Support as Abortion Aftercare from the Perspectives of People Who Have Had Abortions
9:12 AM - 9:24 AMBiography
Hannah Bambra (she/her) is a writer, peer support worker and reproductive health advocate. She has been published in leading Australian newspapers about topics including medical misogyny, the healthcare impacts of conscientious objection, and the need for trauma-informed fertility care. She is the lead facilitator of The Abortion Project's Naarm group.
Ms Miranda Millen
PhD Candidate
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health
The self-improved and sexually empowered ‘self’: Women’s experiences of casual sex and sexual wellbeing
9:24 AM - 9:36 AMBiography
Miranda Millen is a PhD candidate at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS). Her work explores how gendered narratives of victim-blaming and slut-shaming impact women's experiences navigating sexual consent, pleasure and wellbeing.
Dr Allison Carter
Senior Lecturer
The Kirby Institute
Experiences of contraceptive interference among men: Qualitative findings from the Third Australian Study of Health and Relationships
9:36 AM - 9:48 AMBiography
Dr. Allison Carter is NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Head of the Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity Research
Group at the Kirby Institute. Her research program aims to strengthen responses to gender, social justice, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Ms Eleni Gabrielides
Manager Health Promotion
Meridian
“You’re there to collect my cells, not to judge me”: Co-designing a lived-experience resource for inclusive cervical screening care
9:48 AM - 10:00 AMBiography
Eleni Gabrielides is a Health Promotion Manager at Meridian in Canberra, with six years’ experience in sexual health promotion. She focuses on creating inclusive, community-driven initiatives that support engagement, reduce stigma, and improve access to care.
Ms Rashmi Pithavadian
PhD Candidate and Sessional Academic
Western Sydney University
Diversity gaps in vaginismus care: A qualitative analysis for sexual and reproductive health and rights
10:00 AM - 10:12 AMBiography
Rashmi Pithavadian is an award-winning health researcher and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her published journal articles and chapters examine the biopsychosocial health of marginalised people with sexual dysfunction, migrancy and refugee status, and LGBTQ+ identities. She is also sessional academic at Western Sydney University and Charles Darwin University.
ASRH Conference
14C. Questions & Discussion
10:12 AM - 10:30 AMBiography
Session Chair
Linda Kirby
Nurse Practitioner
Queensland Sexual Health And Education Institute (QSHEI)
Tania Slater
Senior Research Fellow
Te Tatai Hauora o Hine Aotearoa National Centre For Women's Health Research Aotearoa, Victoria University Of Wellington