Dr Anna Noonan: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- School of Rural Health, University of Sydney
- Quoted on
- Women's health & gynaecology
- Press citations held
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“We found the decision of one person in a position of power can result in there being no access to an abortion service at all.”
What Dr Anna Noonan has said
“The Abortion Desert Map was developed by the Access All Areas research collective at the University of Sydney and Ri Liu, an independent data visualisation specialist. Access All Areas is led by Dr Anna Noonan (school of rural health) and Dr Madeleine Belfrage (Sydney social sciences and humanities advanced research centre).”
School of Rural Health, University of Sydney · Women's health & gynaecology · 29 Sept 2026 · How hard is it to access an abortion in NSW? These maps show the ‘deserts’ for care in the state ↗
“There are a whole lot of service gaps around abortion that people in the general population really don't know about until they try to access one.”
School of Rural Health, University of Sydney · Women's health & gynaecology · 29 Sept 2026 · NSW abortion deserts: just three of 220 public hospitals provide terminations, research finds ↗
Where Dr Anna Noonan has been quoted
- ‘It’s kind of whispered in corridors’: women being forced into underground abortion networks in rural NSW, study findstheguardian.com · 29 Sept 2026
- How hard is it to access an abortion in NSW? These maps show the ‘deserts’ for care in the statetheguardian.com · 29 Sept 2026
- NSW abortion deserts: just three of 220 public hospitals provide terminations, research findstheguardian.com · 29 Sept 2026
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