About
As leadership is a core part of the
Strategic Plan 2019–2021, AOA aims to involve more members in leadership positions. As such, AOA has created the Champions of Change Working Group after a five-year
Diversity Strategic Plan, to encourage action against gender inequality within the organisation.
The Working Group works with the AOA Board,
Orthopaedic Women's Link (OWL) Committee and AOA membership to address and take action on issues relating to diversity.
Results
Congratulations to the winner of the inaugural CC Photo Essay, Anum Awais, orthopaedic service registrar at Royal Adelaide Hospital.
View the Anum's essay, and highly commended entries, through the
CC Photo Essay Results page.
The Champions of Change (CC) Working Group introduced the CC Photo Essay in 2022.
Australian medical students, interns, residents, registrars and trainees were invited to submit a series of photos and captions on the theme We come in all shapes, sizes, colours and genders and focused on gender diversity.
Champions of Change Working Group representatives
Chair: Andrew Wines
VIC: Anita Boecksteiner
SA: Andrew Saies
WA: Richard Carey Smith
Objectives of the group
- To work with the OWL Committee to step up beside women to listen and learn from their experiences and leadership and advocate for women’s representation.
- Prioritise achieving progress on women’s representation by seeking out innovative and effective approaches and investing time to achieve aspirations.
- Identify and implement progressive and high impact actions that disrupt the status quo to create meaningful and sustainable change
- Lead with action and advocacy, by working with the state branches, subspecialty societies, AOA Committees.
- Assisting with the implementation of the relevant milestones in the AOA Diversity Strategy.
Please refer to the
Terms of Reference or contact
michelle.white@aoa.org.au for further information about the Working Group.