Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health

Sarah Hawkes¹, Elhadj As Sy², Gary Barker³, Frances Elaine Baum⁴, Kent Buse⁵, Angela Y Chang⁶, Beniamino Cislaghi⁷, Jocalyn Clark⁸, Raewyn Connell⁹, Morna Cornell¹⁰, Gary L Darmstadt¹¹, Carmen Simone Grilo Diniz¹², Sharon Friel¹³, Indrani Gupta¹⁴, Sofia Gruskin¹⁵, Sarah Hill¹⁶, Amy Chiaying Hsieh¹⁷, Renu Khanna¹⁸, Jeni Klugman¹⁹, Aaron Koay²⁰, Vivian Lin²¹, Khadija T Moalla²², Erica Nelson²³, Lynsey Robinson²⁴, Nina Schwalbe²⁵, Ravi Verma²⁶, Virginia Zarulli²⁷

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¹ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK; Global Health 50/50, Cambridge, UK; Monash University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Electronic address: sarah.hawkes@globalhealth5050.org.
² Saly, Senegal.
³ Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Justice, Washington, DC, USA; Center for Social Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁴ Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁵ Global Health 50/50, Cambridge, UK; Monash University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
⁶ Danish Institute for Advanced Study and Danish Centre for Health Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
⁷ School of Social Work, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
⁸ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK; British Medical Journal, London, UK; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁹ University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
¹⁰ School of Public Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹¹ Department of Paediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
¹² Department of Health and Society, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹³ Australian Research Centre for Health Equity, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
¹⁴ Health Policy Research Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India.
¹⁵ Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, Keck School of Medicine, and Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
¹⁶ Global Health Policy Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹⁷ New York, NY, USA.
¹⁸ Society for Health Alternatives, Vadodara, India.
¹⁹ Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
²⁰ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
²¹ LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
²² Fanar For Leadership, Tunis, Tunisia.
²³ Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
²⁴ Institute of Education, Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, London, UK; Global Health 50/50, Cambridge, UK.
²⁵ Spark Street Advisors, New York, NY, USA; Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
²⁶ International Center for Research on Women, New Delhi, India.
²⁷ Department of Statistics, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

PMID: 40209736
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00488-X

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Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health

Sarah Hawkes et al. Lancet. 2025.

. 2025 Apr 19;405(10487):1373-1438.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00488-X. Epub 2025 Apr 7.

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Affiliations

¹ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK; Global Health 50/50, Cambridge, UK; Monash University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Electronic address: sarah.hawkes@globalhealth5050.org.
² Saly, Senegal.
³ Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Justice, Washington, DC, USA; Center for Social Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
⁴ Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁵ Global Health 50/50, Cambridge, UK; Monash University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
⁶ Danish Institute for Advanced Study and Danish Centre for Health Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
⁷ School of Social Work, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
⁸ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK; British Medical Journal, London, UK; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁹ University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
¹⁰ School of Public Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹¹ Department of Paediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
¹² Department of Health and Society, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹³ Australian Research Centre for Health Equity, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
¹⁴ Health Policy Research Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India.
¹⁵ Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, Keck School of Medicine, and Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
¹⁶ Global Health Policy Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹⁷ New York, NY, USA.
¹⁸ Society for Health Alternatives, Vadodara, India.
¹⁹ Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
²⁰ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
²¹ LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
²² Fanar For Leadership, Tunis, Tunisia.
²³ Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
²⁴ Institute of Education, Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, London, UK; Global Health 50/50, Cambridge, UK.
²⁵ Spark Street Advisors, New York, NY, USA; Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
²⁶ International Center for Research on Women, New Delhi, India.
²⁷ Department of Statistics, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

PMID: 40209736
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00488-X

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Declaration of interests FEB reports royalty payments from Oxford University Press for books, is an unpaid member of the Cancer Council South Australia, and is a former co-chair of the People's Health Movement Global Steering Council and a current member of its Advisory Council. ACH and VZ report consulting fees from University College London. EN reports funds from University College London (paid to their institution) and is a former member of the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research Expert Advisory Committee on Community Engagement and Involvement (2020–24) and a member of the community of practice on measuring social accountability and health outcomes hosted by the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training Human Reproduction (2019–23). AK has been a consultant for, and employee of, Global Health 50/50. EAS is chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, the Dakar Institut Pasteur, and the African Child Policy Forum, a board member for InterPeace and the LEGO Foundation, a governor of the Wellcome Trust, and a chancellor of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. JC is a former employee of The Lancet and was lead editor of the Commission for the journal from 2019 to 2022.

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