Queensland Women and Girls' Health Showcases
We are pleased to host two Women and Girls' Health Showcases in 2025. Our events bring together peers across women and girls' health and wellbeing to share, inspire, create change, and explore how we can design and deliver more equitable health care for all Queenslanders.
Our first showcase occurred in Brisbane on 26 and 27 February 2025. Cairns will host the next Women and Girls’ Health Showcase on Thursday 8 May 2025.
Cairns Women and Girls' Health Showcase
When: Thursday, 8 May 2025
Where: Cairns CBD
Address: TBA
More information will be released closer to the event date.
Expressions of interest
We are now accepting abstract submissions and expressions of interest from community partners for the Cairns Showcase.
Submissions can be made until 9:00 am, Wednesday 19 March 2025.
What we’re looking for
Our Cairns showcase focus on presentations discussing best practice, innovation and improving health outcomes for women and girls living in regional, rural and remote locations, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls.
We also welcome presentations that focus on any of our priority communities, including women and girls that are:
- living in regional, rural and remote areas
- First Nations
- culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD)
- living with disability
- members of LGBTQIA+ communities
- in contact with the justice system, including those in custody
- older
- experiencing homelessness.
We strongly encourage clinicians, allied health providers, consumers and Queensland Health partner organisations to participate.
Before you begin
Use the Women and Girls' Health Showcase Abstract Submission Guidelines (PDF 180 kB) to confirm your eligibility, view the privacy declaration and find more information for abstract submissions.
To prepare your abstract or expression of interest, you will need to:
- collect key contact information
- decide if your presentation is to be delivered in oral format or a visual medium such as a poster
- determine your submission topic or area—see what we're looking for
- confirm your abstract title
- write the abstract submission (3,000 characters or 500 words maximum)
- consider any accessibility requirements.
Please note that there is no funding for travel and accommodation.
Submission form
Abstract submissions are now closed
What happens next
Abstract submissions and expressions of interest will be reviewed after closure.
We will notify you of the outcome of your submission by late March 2025.
Stay in touch
For more information, email the Women and Girls' Health Improvement Team: womenandgirlsimprove@health.qld.gov.au
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This webpage and associated promotional materials for these events use the term 'women and girls'. We use this term inclusively to mean all people who identify as a woman or girl and recognise that people who do not identify as a woman or girl can still experience women’s health issues.