In Pictures: International Women’s Day lunch
UniSA Chancellor John Hill hosted a lunch for International Women’s Day at Pridham Hall in early March.
The lunch was attended by almost 100 high profile guests including the Governor of South Australia Frances Adamson AC.
The chief executive of Bellbery Limited – a national, private not-for-profit organisation providing streamlined scientific and ethical review of human research projects across Australia – was guest speaker at the lunch.
Bellberry CEO Kylie Sproston said in her speech that it’s time to turn promises into progress.
Using the International Women’s Day theme of “March Forward”, Sproston spoke about understanding diseases as they present in women (often quite differently from men) and the development of medicines and clinical evidence relating to women.
“It’s no surprise that we still have a way to go,” she said. “Did you know that in the 1980s there was a landmark study to examine the impact of a daily dose of aspirin on the risk of heart attacks? The most surprising part of it was that all 22,071 trial participants were men!”
Sproston urged women and men in the audience to use their influence to include and support women and girls both professionally and personally.
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