Gender Justice for Health Equity

Research - Portfolios - Equal Rights Gender Diagram
Gender shapes who gets sick, who gets heard, and who gets to lead. We generate the evidence and build the accountability to change that.

Summary

Gender is one of the most powerful social determinants of health, yet it is too often treated as an afterthought in research, policy and institutions. Our work positions gender as an analytical category and a driver of health outcomes for all people, and asks who benefits from health systems, who is left out, and who holds the power to decide. Our portfolio of research and advocacy spans the politics of gender in global health, the gendered patterning of disease and death, equitable leadership in the health sector, the measurement that makes inequities visible, and the ways gender, as a system of power, interacts with other systems and structures – particularly commercial and legal power - to shape health across the lifecourse.

The work is led by Professor Sarah Hawkes, bringing more than three decades of work at the interface of research, policy and advocacy for gender equality, health equity and social justice. It is grounded in scholarship as well as practice: our lead co-Chairs the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health and co-founded Global 50/50, the initiative that holds the global health sector to account for gender equality, meaning the evidence we produce is used to achieve impact where it matters most.