Associate Professor Mike Armour completed his honours degree in biomedicine at the University of Auckland before going on to study traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Mike completed his PhD in dysmenorrhea in 2016.

Mike is an Associate Professor in reproductive health and Director of Research at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University where he is currently running several clinical trials on endometriosis, dysmenorrhea, menstrual health literacy. 

Mike has published over 110 peer reviewed articles on various aspects of women’s health, as well as several text book chapters. Mike has had significant media attention on his work including 16 articles in The Conversation, an SBS Insight special on endometriosis, an SBS special on herbal medicine for period pain and over 300 pieces of international news media with an estimated readership of 80 million across over 100 countries including Channel 7 News, ABC News, and The Guardian. 

Mike is heavily involved in research and treatment of endometriosis, and he was the invited complementary medicine expert on the endometriosis expert working group (EEWG) for the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) that developed the first Australian guidelines for Endometriosis, released in January 2021. Mike is also a World Endometriosis Society Ambassador, Academic lead of the Menstrual Cycle Research Network (MCRN) at Western Sydney University and Chair of the Australasian Interdisciplinary Researchers in Endometriosis (AIRE).