Dr Shelly Makleff is a Research Fellow in the Global and Women's Health Unit in the School Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University and a Research Affiliate with SPHERE. She is also Senior Advisor - Research and Translation at Respect Victoria. Her research focuses on abortion stigma and quality of care, intimate partner violence prevention, comprehensive sexuality education, the evaluation of gender-transformative programming, and gendered social norms. She has carried out collaborative research and evaluation projects in partnership with non-governmental, health services, and community-based partners around the world for over 15 years. Her PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explored the pathways through which a comprehensive sexuality education program in Mexico City prevents intimate partner violence among young people.