The UCL Centre for Gender, Health and Social Justice, based in the Institute of Global Health, is a multidisciplinary team committed to mobilising dialogue and inciting change around gender, health and social justice.
The Centre brings together a team of academics and advocates to better understand the complex relationship between gender and health, using a lens of social justice. We work with partners around the world to advance gender equality and health equity.
Gender matters to our health. Gender influences our chance of reaching our full health potential, and when we get sick it influences how we will be treated within the health system. It drives career opportunities – including across the health system where 70% of frontline health workers are female but 70% of the leadership are male.
Continue readingAt the Centre, our research is organised into three broad thematic categories which you can explore to find more specific content. We also teach both graduate and undergraduate courses. Find out more about what we do here.
Politics, simply understood as who gets what, when, and how, is central to health policy and health equity outcomes.
Read moreGender refers to the roles, attributes, behaviours and opportunities associated with being male, female, or gender non-binary.
Read moreGender plays a key role in driving health outcomes for everyone - men, women, and people with non-binary gender identities.
Read moreExplore modules and courses by the Gender Centre members in the Institute for Global Health.
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Dr Ayesha Ahmad reviews Dr Behnaz Hosseini’s ‘Trauma and the Rehabilitation of Trafficked Women’: Speaking suffering of conflict and gender-based traumas outside of peace and beyond humanity. CN: mentions of sexual violence
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