Philomena Horsley joined the Centre for Women's Health, gender and Society as a lecturer in 2009. She has coordinated the Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health course and the short course on Gender, Violence and Women's Health.
She is also responsible for developing the Centre's research program on the health and well-being of women living with disabilities.
Philomena is a medical anthropologist with a broad interest in understandings of medicine and the body, women's health, sexuality and sexual health including HIV/AIDS; social inequalities related to disability, sexual identity and age; and medical education and practice, particularly in the area of death and dying. Her PhD was an ethnographic study of the hospital autopsy. She also has particular expertise in research ethics, and is a long-time member of the Human Research Ethics Committees of Family Planning Victoria and SCOPE Victoria.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Credentials
Positions
Honorary
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
Honorary
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
Acting Chair
HREC, Scope Victoria
Member
Australian Anthropology Society
Acting Chair
HREC, Family Planning Victoria
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Master of Medical Anthropology
University of Melbourne
Professional Writing and Editing
Deakin University
Education (Children's Literature)
Deakin University
Arts
Monash University
Grad Diploma in Women's Studies
Rusden State College