Sex and Gender Health Policy

Understanding, promoting and developing policies for sex and gender sensitive research across health and medical research

Background

There is a long-standing assumption that medicine, and the research underpinning medical interventions, is gender neutral.
However the important role sex and gender has in risk, detection, treatment and recovery is being uncovered for many major diseases.
Despite this, many research studies do not take sex and gender into account, leading to substantial evidence gaps.

This three-year philanthropically-funded research project is led by the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW Sydney and The George Institute for Global Health, and builds on and expands previous and ongoing research in both Australia and globally.

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Are you conducting research?​

Explore our resources on conducting sex and gender sensitive health and medical research, and collecting gender specific disaggregated data.
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Are you developing policies?

Access frameworks, implementation and other best practices for developing sex and gender sensitive health policies
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Latest News and Articles

Sex and gender reporting in Australian health and medical research publications

Read our new paper in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Project Outputs
Sex and gender reporting in Australian health and medical research publications
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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

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