We are excited to announce our upcoming networking series in May 2025, focused on sexual health and reproductive choice programs. Access to equitable sexual and reproductive health and education services is a crucial aspect of the international development agenda, impacting gender equality, health, and overall well-being for women and girls.

We invite you to join us as we hear from speakers who are delivering Sexual & Reproductive health services in the Asia-Pacific and find out more about how their work underpins women’s choices and gender equality, supports sustainable development goals and breaks cycles of poverty.

Come along to meet other women in the sector, share a glass of wine and nibbles and make new connections.

Cost: FREE for WIAD Members, $25 for Supporters, $10 for Non-Member Students, interns and unwaged.

*Members will be sent a discount code for free access, please check your emails (including spam/junk mail).

*Once purchased, tickets are non-refundable.

Everyone is welcome, so please share this email with your friends and colleagues. Keep an eye on our website for details of the event.

Speakers

Grishma Bista

Grishma Bista is the newly appointed Executive Officer of MSI Asia Pacific, bringing more than a decade of leadership experience in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender equality and development. Grishma previously served as Country Director of MSI Timor-Leste, where she led the organisation through a period of extraordinary resilience and impact. Her career also spans leadership roles with Oxfam, CARE International, and the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA). Before assuming the Executive Officer role, Grishma served on the MSI Asia Pacific board for two years.

Throughout her career, Grishma has championed reproductive choice as foundational to social justice. Grishma’s global experience, perspective and background in public health shape her rights-based, community-driven approach to development. As Executive Officer, Grishma leads MSI Asia Pacific’s work to support local partnerships, advance policy and programmatic excellence, and ensure that reproductive health care reaches those who need it most across the Asia and Pacific regions.

Ana Orozco

Ana has been part of theBurnet Institue’s Young People’s Health Group for four years – she is dedicated to exploring young people's health in Australia through qualitative, co-design, and quantitative research methods. Her work primarily focuses on the needs of multicultural communities, advocating for menstrual health, and promoting sexual health, mental health, and overall well-being.

Projects include the Gist: a pornography education program to improve sexual health and wellbeing in young people and young people’s health in Australia: statistics from the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll survey. Whilst the projects are currently Australia-based, they have huge correlation to the needs in international development contexts.