The Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA) is a multidisciplinary, non-profit association whose members are committed to developing and improving wound management for all individuals through education, research, communication and networking.

Affiliations and membership
The association acts as a parent body to the autonomous state wound management associations in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and Western Australia. There are approximately 2000 members from the disciplines of nursing, medicine, pharmacy, podiatry, industry and the sciences. The New Zealand Wound Care Society is an affiliate. Membership of the association is either through membership of state associations or directly through AWMA. Corporate membership is also welcomed.

Activities and aims
Each year the association endeavours to hold its annual general meeting in conjunction with an annual state woundcare conference. Every second year the association holds its own National Wound Care Conference with valuable assistance from the host state woundcare association.

The Australian journal of wound management Wound Practice and Research (formally Primary Intention) is produced and published by the association four times a year. The Comfeel Literary Awards encourage members to publish wound research and their experiences of clinical wound management.

In adherence with the association's aim to improve the community's understanding of wounds and wound management practices, it formed a Pressure Ulcer Interest Subcommittee in 1996. This committee has developed Guidelines for the Prediction and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers.

The AWMA has forged strong links with other international wound healing societies. The association hosted the First World Wound Healing Meeting in Melbourne in September 2000. At this meeting the International Union of Wound Healing Societies was formed.