It Left No Marks: Social media collateral

This social media collateral can be used by services to increase awareness of women’s health needs following strangulation. This set of four social media tiles include ones directed toward service providers, healthcare providers and women.  If you would like help constructing text to accompany these images, please use this social media campaign explainer: This social…

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Women, Violence and Brain Injury: Short stories

Women’s Health NSW ran an event called Women, Violence and Brain Injury in late 2025. It brought together a range of experts on women’s brain injuries resulting from violence. These short stories are drawn from the presentations of our speakers.  In this short story, Phoebe Nagorcka-Smith points out that we don’t have an accurate national…

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Sexual choking isn’t risk-free: Social media campaign

This is a social media health promotion campaign about sexual choking. This harm reduction campaign is designed to build community knowledge relating to the risks of sexual choking, and support help-seeking behaviour. The evidence-informed approaches taken in each social media tile are drawn from Sexual choking: A health promotion approach.  The digital environment normalises sexual…

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Unseen damage: Recognising brain injury in domestic abuse

In this HealthEd podcast, Lara Graves, psychologist and researcher for the Salvation Army, explores the complex presentation of brain injuries as a result of domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV). Graves discusses the barriers to diagnosing and managing brain injuries caused by violence, emphasising the overlap between symptoms of brain injury, experiences of trauma, mood disorders…

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Detecting and managing mild brain injury from domestic abuse

In this HealthEd podcast, colleagues from the Mid Western Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program, Dr Josephine Braid, a Rehabilitation Medicine Physician, and Molly Banks, a Speech Pathologist and Program Manager, remind healthcare providers of the importance of investigating and managing brain injuries resulting from domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV). Dr Braid and Ms Banks explore…

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