Members of the Menstrual Health Coalition’s Steering Committee

Our Chairs

Dr Anne Connolly MBE

After a two year volunteer posting to a under-resourced mission hospital in rural Zimbabwe, Anne returned to General Practice in inner-city Bradford in 1990 and is currently working as a GP providing care for asylum seekers, refugees, homeless people and sex workers.

She is a GPSI in gynaecology, accredited as a hysteroscopist, colposcopist and FSRH trainer. She has been involved with commissioning since 2006 and retired as Bradford City CCG clinical board member with remit for maternity, women’s, children and young people’s healthcare in 2020.

Anne is chair of the PCWHF and RCGP Clinical Champion for Women’s Health. She is also co-editor of Women’s Health in Primary Care.

Anne was honoured to be awarded an MBE for her work in women’s health in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Katharine Gale

Katharine Gale is a Nurse Consultant in Women's Health and the current Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Women's Health Forum which launched the publication 'Promoting Menstrual Wellbeing' and the 'Women's Health Pocket Guide'.  The women's health forum is currently leading a new project entitled 'Making sense of women's health' to raise awareness and guide nurses to appropriate resources in order to support women experiencing gynaecological conditions. 

Katharine is an enthusiastic nurse who has used her expertise in a number of areas of women’s health to enhance care and professional practice, and this has included operational and strategic engagement in both clinical and political issues that affect service provision, healthcare, and the well-being of girls and women across the UK.

Katharine is sonographer, hysteroscopist and non medical prescriber and has a specialist interest in menstrual wellbeing and the menopause. She is currently employed by North Bristol NHS Trust and has received hospital charity funding to research the 'Working lives of menopausal women in the NHS'. As well as a nurse, she is a Certified Coach and supports women particularly around the time of the menopause. 

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