About
Introduction
Women’s Health Sessions was created to improve understanding of women’s and reproductive health through clear, evidence-informed education delivered in-person within schools, colleges and educational settings.
Sessions combine biomedical science, public health and women’s health education with an engaging and approachable teaching style designed to encourage curiosity, confidence and deeper understanding.
Topics such as menstrual health, fertility, reproductive anatomy and common gynaecological conditions are explored through engaging, age-appropriate sessions designed to build understanding beyond the basics.
Why These Sessions Were Created
A Changing Landscape
While sex education is widely delivered in schools, many young people still receive limited teaching on women’s and reproductive health. Increasingly, information is encountered first through social media, where scientific context can become inconsistent or oversimplified.
Questions Beyond the Basics
Through experience across education and NHS settings, it became increasingly clear that many young people had questions about menstrual health, fertility, hormones, symptoms and common gynaecological conditions that extended beyond standard sex education.
The Role of Education
Women’s Health Sessions grew from a longstanding passion for science communication and a genuine joy in watching people understand something new. The sessions are designed to make complex health topics feel clearer, more approachable and grounded in real scientific understanding.
Educational Approach
Sessions are designed to make women’s and reproductive health feel approachable, engaging and grounded in real scientific understanding, encouraging curiosity, participation and thoughtful discussion rather than passive learning.
Sessions are designed to complement existing PSHE, wellbeing and health education frameworks and can be adapted to curriculum priorities and pastoral themes of each organisation.
Topics are approached through clear explanation, symptom awareness, scientific context and practical understanding, helping young people build confidence navigating women’s health information both online and in everyday life.
Sessions are tailored to the needs of each educational setting and can be delivered in the following formats
Assemblies
Classroom workshops
Small-group sessions
Parent or staff education sessions
Tailored educational programmes
Sessions are educational in nature and are not intended to replace medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Delivering a session to 16-17 year olds at Newcastle College, April 2026
Where science underpins understanding, and clarity supports confidence
About the Founder
Women’s Health Sessions was founded by Yrina Ghrabigi (BSc (Hons), BMedSci, MSc, MPH), a science educator with an academic background in chemistry, medical sciences, women’s health and public health.
Academic Background
MSc Womens Health - University College London
Masters of Public Health (Health Systems and Policy) - Imperial College London
BMedSci Medical Science - Hull York Medical School
BSc Chemistry - University of York
Educational Experience
Alongside several years of science tutoring, Yrina has worked within NHS emergency and maternity settings and contributed to maternal health projects through NGO volunteer work. She has also delivered educational talks communicating complex scientific and health topics to a range of audiences.
Why Women’s Health Sessions?
With a longstanding passion for science communication and education, she founded Women’s Health Sessions with the belief that accessible education and scientific understanding can play a powerful role in how young people experience and navigate women’s health.
Yrina holds an up-to-date enhanced DBS certificate and safeguarding training, alongside experience working with young people across educational, medical and pastoral settings.
