Danielle Howe

Danielle (Dani) Howe is a PhD Candidate at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University. Her PhD is focused on the Endo@Work project: developing and evaluating employer guidelines for supporting those with endometriosis in the workplace. Her PhD work is in partnership Endometriosis Australia and under the supervision of Dr Mike Armour, Dr Michelle O’Shea and Dr Sarah Duffy.

Dani has nearly a decade of industry experience working in the community and international development sectors working in monitoring, evaluation and learning, working across Canada, UK, Australia, the Gambia, Sierra Leonne, Togo, Zambia, Occupied Territory of Palestine, and Bangladesh. Through her work she maintained a special interest in developing and integrating inclusive menstrual health education initiatives into wider community public health, education & primary prevention of gender-based-violence programs.

Upon her return to academia, Dani’s research interests are in improving inclusive menstrual literacy, and reproductive and menstrual-related health outcomes. She is concerned in understanding and illuminating how inequities in menstrual health are reproduced in broader organisation and institutional contexts, ultimately driving gender inequity.