The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health

A Lancet Commission brings together global, multidisciplinary stakeholders to address an urgent health predicament.

The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health responds to the pressing need for substantial, structural, and system-wide change if we are to see considerable progress on gender equality and health equity by 2030.

The Commission is working to mobilise individuals and institutions to produce a feminist, intersectional, and evidence-informed report that goes beyond evidence to catalyse action on gender and global health

Our Guiding Principles

From universalism to pluralism

Global problems call for collaborative solutions, not unilateral impositions. We commit to acknowledging, appreciating, and acting upon a diversity of knowledge systems and sociocultural perspectives to co-create change.

From outputs to outcomes

Interventions and collaborations should lead to long-term change, not short-term gains. We interrogate the project driven, and often patchwork approach, of global health to reimagine models and practices that result in system-wide reforms.

From analysis to action

Now is the time for concrete action, not continued analysis. We strive to shift the conversation from ‘what do we know?’ to ‘what can we do?’ in order to catalyse meaningful change within gender and global health.

Join the discussions

Join us for our series of events as we explore key questions, concerns or topics the Commission is tackling, and for the chance to pose your questions to the Commissioners.

Most recent:

Perspectives and initiatives of young people in all their diversity

6 October 2022

A Lancet Commission brings together global, multidisciplinary stakeholders to address an urgent health predicament.

The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health responds to the pressing need for substantial, structural, and system-wide change if we are to see considerable progress on gender equality and health equity by 2030.

The Commission is working to mobilise individuals and institutions to produce a feminist, intersectional, and evidence-informed report that goes beyond evidence to catalyse action on gender and global health

Our Guiding Principles

From universalism to pluralism

From outputs to outcomes

From analysis to action

Join the discussions

Perspectives and initiatives of young people in all their diversity

Masculinities and health: Relational and intersectional perspectives

Explore Past Discussions

Grassroots activism at the intersection of gender and health

Gender activism, politics, and intersectionality in the era of COVID-19

Gender violence in health institutions as a global health issue

Radically sensible: Feminist philanthropy in global health

Vaccines to vaccinations: Gender in promoting immunisations

Can gender budgeting lead to better health outcomes?

“As long as it still comes off as a cigarette ad, not a civil rights message”

Masculinities and Health: Experiments in (attempted) systems change

Men: the elephant in the (gender and global health) room

Addressing Gender in Global Health: Can human rights play a useful role going forward?

Gender and Health: nothing so practical as good theory

Gender and Maternal Health in the Global Health Agenda

Gender Equality, Norms and Health

Gender Equality and Decoloniality in Global Health

The messy nexus of agency, international justice & global health

Gender Equality: Why is the message not getting across to communities?

Gender & Health from local to global: amplifying excluded voices

Intersectionality & Global Health

Gender and Health in the Global Economy of Knowledge

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