A collection of published research, helpful resources and tools to support the incorporation of sex and gender in health and medical research as well as wider reading on key concepts and applications of this work.

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Gender in global health: Can human rights play a useful role?

Conducting sex and gender sensitive research – where should I start?

Researchers – TransHub

Language – TransHub

Integrating Sex and Gender to Improve Human Health Course

Sex and Gender in Health Research – Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Gendered Innovations – Case Studies

Researching intersex populations – Intersex Human Rights Australia

Darlington Statement – Intersex Human Rights Australia

A guide to writing and speaking about Indigenous People in Australia

Breaking the Binary: Teaching Inclusive Conceptions of Sex and Gender in Undergraduate Science

Sex and gender in health research: updating policy to reflect evidence

What Is A Brotherboy Or Sistergirl? And Why Need To Decolonise Gender

Sex and gender: Redefining anatomical language in healthcare

The Colonial Project of Gender (and Everything Else)

The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy

Gender bias in medicine and medical research is still putting women’s health at risk

Gender-specific health programs address important issues, but risk creating new biases

Dangerous exclusions: The risk to patient safety of sex and gender bias

Gendered Innovations – Analysis methods

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

The four priorities for tackling medical misogyny in Australia

The federal government has established a women’s health advisory council to improve outcomes. Here a panel of experts discuss what it should focus on.

New National Women’s Health Advisory Council

National Women's Health Advisory Council to tackle medical misogyny in medicine and health care

Small step for Nature, giant leap across the gender gap

Leading journal will make sex and gender reporting mandatory in research

Tackling the gap in women’s health data

Principal Investigator Dr Cheryl Carcel speaks to Cosmos about sex and gender data gaps

Virus vaccine trials had even gender split

Find out more about our research into sex and gender reporting in COVID-19 vaccine trials