Policies are a key intervention for promoting consideration of sex and gender in the design, data collection and analysis of health and medical research.
Developing Policies
Research is currently being undertaken to develop an Australian context specific framework for the collection, reporting and analysis of sex and gender data in health and medical research.
Organisations from across the sector can utilise these frameworks to develop their own tailored policy.
Sex and gender in health research: updating policy to reflect evidence
Action Group Med J Aust 2020; 212 (2): 57-62.e1. || doi: 10.5694/mja2.50426 Published online: 25 November 2019
Australian specific policy framework (to be developed)
Sex and Gender Health Policies project group; expected by 2022-2023
Policy implementation considerations
This section will include all the publicly accessible policies from Phase 1a survey study
(Examples of Australian policies), as well as any learnings on:
- Barriers and facilitators,
- Tools for policy development and implementation,
- Tools for policy monitoring and evaluation.
International best practice examples
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Learn more about minority populations marginalised in discussions on sex and gender:
