A short note this week, because something happened on the research side that matters to us.
A paper I am joint first author on has just been published in Patient Education and Counseling, a peer-reviewed health communication journal. The paper looks at the health information needs of culturally and linguistically diverse women in Australia during pregnancy. A group whose voices are not often heard loudly enough in the way our health systems are designed.
What it found
Migrant women in our study told us, clearly and consistently, that the health information available to them during pregnancy did not always meet them where they were. They wanted resources that were not only translated, but culturally appropriate, visually engaging, and trustworthy. They wanted to be respected as the experts in their own lives, while also having access to credible information when they needed it.
It is not a flashy finding. But it is an important one, because it points to something that runs through almost every part of women's health: the people designing the information are not always the people receiving it.
Why this connects to Greenher
Different topic, same underlying belief.
Greenher exists because too much of the women's health and supplement world is built around marketing rather than evidence, and around a generic version of "woman" that does not match anyone. The same gap that shows up in maternity care for migrant women shows up, in different form, every time a 45 year old woman walks past a supplement shelf that has never quite been built for her.
The work of closing that gap, whether in research or in product, is the same work. Make the good information accessible. Trustworthy. Genuinely useful to the woman in front of you.
What is next
More research, including ongoing work with the Monash team as I wrap up my contribution to projects we have already completed. More content here, doing the same thing in a different form. And the products we are quietly working on at Greenher, all built around the same belief that women deserve better than the average.
Thank you for being here while we do it.
The takeaway: a peer-reviewed paper on health information for migrant women during pregnancy was just published in Patient Education and Counseling. The work behind it shares the same belief that built Greenher. Women deserve better than the average.
Publication
Nagesh N, Brammall BR, Govindaraju T, Madill R, Coombs G, Flynn D, Thiessen M, Teede HJ, Harrison CL. Exploring health information needs and preferences of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women during pregnancy: A mixed methods study. Patient Education and Counseling. 2026; 109693.