Event type:

In person

Date & time:

23 Sep 2020, 10:30 – 11:30

VIRTUAL EVENT: Shining a gender lens on global health

Professor Sarah Hawkes, co-director of the gender equality in health initiative ‘Global Health 50/50’, will present her research on the relationship between gender and health.

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VIRTUAL EVENT: Shining a gender lens on global health

Professor Sarah Hawkes is Director of the UCL Centre for Gender and Global Health, and a medical doctor with a degree in sociology and a PhD in epidemiology. She is Professor of Global Public Health at the UCL Institute for Global Health where she leads a research theme analysing the use of evidence in policy processes, particularly in relation to gender and health, and sexual health. She has lived and worked for much of the past 20 years in Asia, where she has gathered evidence, built capacity and helped develop policy for programmes focusing on gender, sexual health and human rights. She works closely with national governments, research organisations, WHO and UNFPA in Asia and the Middle East.  

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Ticketing

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Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences

fphs.pa@ucl.ac.uk