Dani spends a lot of time ranting about the need for good menstrual health, from menarche to postmenopause, for everyone, everywhere.
If you’re interested in the topic and what you can do to help, check out the links below.
Interviews
2025 Menstruation Goes Mainstream with Ina Jurga. The Meaning of Health (interviewer, podcast)
2025 Improving Understanding of Menopause with Associate Professor Erin Moreton. The Meaning of Health (interviewer, podcast)
2025 Period poverty a national problem. ABC The World Today – Radio National (radio)
2024 Menopause matters live panel. The Meaning of Health (podcast)
2022 WA Government makes period products free in state high schools. ABC Radio Perth (radio)
2022 People’s Parliament: Should Australia make period products free to anyone who needs them? ABC Radio Perth (radio)
2022 Scotland becomes the first country to make period products free. ABC News Channel (TV)
2022 Improving menstrual experiences. ABC Regional Drive (radio)
2021 Sanitation, Toilets and Menstruation. The Meaning of Health (podcast)
2020 Water, Sanitation and Menstruation Stigma. Everybody Hates Me: Let’s Talk About Stigma (podcast)
2020 The Sidekick Manifesto. Water You On About? (podcast)
2019 Period Poverty. Canterbury’s Plains FM 96.9 (radio) and Speak Up – Kōrerotia (podcast)
2017 The Comfort Kit Presents. The Comfort Kit (video)
2016 About Share the Dignity. Share the Dignity (video)
2016 Removing the GST on menstrual hygiene products. ABC 105.7 Darwin’s Mornings (radio)
2014 Menstruation Matters. Peppermint Magazine (online)
News and editorials
2025: One in seven West Australians experiencing hygiene poverty sparks concerns over serious health impacts. The West Australian (online news and print edition)
2025: Menopause stigma persists. The West Australian (print and online)
2025: It’s about bloody time we talked about periods and climate. CBC News
2024: Period poverty rife despite new products and changing stigma. ABC News
2024 Unpacking the period problem. Western Independent
2023 La palabra menstruacion (“The word menstruation;” news article in Spanish about our study on Spanish menstrual literacy and experiences of menstruation). Levante-EMV
2022 Global study highlights menstrual stigma, with conversations key to change, UWA researcher says. ABC News
2022 Work brings hope on period pain. The (Western Suburbs) Post
2022 Improving menstrual health: more than just providing pads. O&G, Magazine of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
2019 It will take a lot more than free menstrual pads to end period poverty. The Conversation
2019 Ending period poverty: Stopping shame is essential. Policy Forum
2016 How the ‘tampon tax’ violates human rights. The Establishment
Briefs
2024 The menopause transition in non-office work environments: Community Conversation Report (research brief)
2024 Menopause matters: igniting change with menopause policy reform (policy brief)
2023 Menstrual justice: a human rights vision for Australia (policy brief)
2022 Using models of menstrual experience to increase impact (explains how policy-makers, practitioners, evaluators and advocates can use Barrington et al. and Hennegan et al.‘s models of menstrual experience to improve lives!)
2022 Menstrual disposal and washing facilities: considering user preferences in design (practice brief)
2020 Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 and menstrual health and hygiene (practice brief)
2018 The Last Taboo: Menstrual hygiene management in the Pacific (policy brief)
Journal articles
2025 Stigma and silence: The menstrual taboo in Spain. International Journal for Equity in Health
2025 A mixed method study of menstrual health in Spain: pain, disorders and the journey for health. Frontiers in Public Health
2024 Menstruation and sexual health, well-being and justice. Bulletin of the World Health Organization
2024 An analysis of gender inclusion in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects: Intention vs reality. Development Policy Review
2024 Men and women competing on equal terms? A cross-sectional study of young women about the impact of menstrual concerns on equestrian sport participation. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal
2023 Spanish menstrual literacy and experiences of menstruation. BMC Women’s Health
2021 Drivers of menstrual material disposal and washing practices: A systematic review. PLOS One
2019 Menstrual health and hygiene among Indigenous Australian girls and women: barriers and opportunities. BMC Women’s Health
2018 Investigating the policies and practices of teaching menstrual hygiene education to schoolboys in India. The Urban World
2018 A qualitative exploration of menstruation-related restrictive practices in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. PLOS One
2018 Water, sanitation and hygiene systems in Pacific Island schools to promote the health and education of girls and children with disability: A systematic scoping review. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
2016 Improving community health through marketing exchanges: insights from a Participatory Action Research study on water, sanitation, and hygiene in three Melanesian countries. Social Science & Medicine
Presentations
2025 Inclusive Impact: Tools and Strategies for Evaluating Gender Equality Initiatives through an Intersectional Lens. Invited speaker, Social Impact Measurement Network Australia
2024 Toilets: A love story. Public Seminar, Rhodes College
2024 Lived experiences of container-based sanitation in Kenya, South Africa and Peru. UNC Water and Health Conference
2023 Menstrual literacy. Bloody important. Proceedings of the Annual Conference 2023 of International Society for Sanitation Studies
2023 Analysing the role of menstrual literacy on how menstruation is experienced in Spain. Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference
2023 Improving menstrual health beyond product provision. Plenary speaker, Menstruation, Law and Justice Symposium
2023 Successful sanitation: Investigating gender equality in India’s National Sanitation Programming. Water and WASH Futures Conference
2022 Understanding the menstruator (video link and embedded below), Menstrual Waste Disposal Webinar Series, UNHCR/UNFPA/Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition
2021 Drivers of Menstrual Material Disposal and Washing Practices: Why we cannot ignore individual’s behaviour when making engineering decisions (conference paper). 42nd WEDC International Conference, Loughborough, UK
2019 Menstrual experiences in high income countries (pdf of slides). Evidence and Data Working Group of UK Period Poverty Taskforce, Department for Education, London, UK.
2019 Menstrual health: research, policy and action in the UK context (pdf of slides), Ending Period Poverty by 2030: From Research to Impact, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
2018 Improving WASH in Pacific Island schools by embracing local epistemologies. WASH Futures Conference
2018 Human user testing of the Nano Membrane Toilet. WASH Futures Conference
2018 Formative research: Menstrual Hygiene Management in the Pacific. WASH Futures Conference
2018 The Last Taboo: research on menstrual hygiene management in Solomon Islands, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Australasian Aid Conference
2018 Designing a gender neutral household toilet: tales from field testing. UNC Water and Health Conference,
2017 Formative menstrual hygiene management research in the Pacific. UNC Water and Health Conference
2016 WASH in Peri-Urban Informal Settlements: Access, Sustained Use, and Well-Being. WASH Futures Conference
2015 Buy, give, take and share: WASH marketing exchange in the South Pacific. UNC Water and Health Conference
2014 Embedding a capability approach within sanitation marketing. UNC Water and Health Conference
Other
2024 Verbal and written evidence to Australian Federal Senate Inquiry into issues related to menopause and perimenopause