World Menopause Day 2024: Information and resources

There are a number of resources available to UCL staff, whether you’re experiencing the menopause yourself, or if you’d like to find out more:

Networks and guidance

• UCL’s Menopause Network provides a safe and friendly space for colleagues to share information and experiences. They run a regular '(Meno) Pause for Thought' coffee morning where you can connect with each other over a cuppa. 
• What I want my colleagues to know about menopause is a short training programme on the LearnUpon platform, developed in consultation with colleagues experiencing the menopause. 
• UCL’s menopause guidance provides all staff with guidelines on providing and receiving the right support to manage menopausal symptoms at work.

Events

• View a recording of this online webinar (from 16 October 2024), hosted by the InTune programme and the UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health. The focus is on Understanding HRT, in line with this year’s Menopause Awareness Day theme of menopause hormone therapy.
• Sign up for the launch event for Myths of Menopause, edited by Dr Nicola Keay (UCL Division of Medicine), and join a panel discussion with some of the experts featured in the book, on 4 December 2024. 

Podcasts

• The UCL EGA Institite for Women's Health produces a podcast, It All Starts Here, discussing all things Women's Health in an easy to understand way. Season Two has just begun, with episodes one and two covering heavy periods and menopause.
• Professor Joyce Harper (UCL EGA Institite for Women's Health) also hosts a podcast, 'Why didn't anyone tell me this?' which focuses on health education with an emphasis on reproductive health.
• This Grand Challenges Disruptive Voices podcast delves into the bio-psychosocial impacts of menopause, as part of the Grand Challenges funded project ‘Coping with Menopause: exploring women’s lived experiences of work and the multigenerational squeeze’.

More links

• More about the InTune network 
• The International Menopause Society