It's Women's Health Week, a Jean Hailes for Women's Health initiative centred on improving the health and wellbeing of women and girls worldwide.

This week is a great reminder for women and girls to set aside time to prioritise their physical and mental health.

In honour of this important week, MCRI is launching the Long STEPPP Australia Study, a project looking at how periods, period and pelvic pain, and/or endometriosis, affects young people’s lives.

Most young people who have periods will experience some period pain. For some, it is manageable and will not change normal day to day activities. For others, the pain they experience will stop them from doing everyday activities; this could mean missing school, work, sporting, and social activities.

We believe that periods shouldn't ruin your life.

We are asking young people, aged 12-18 years old, whose periods started at least 3 months ago to take part in our project. You will be asked to complete one anonymous survey that will take 20-30 minutes of your time.

You can access more information and the survey by clicking here: