PI: Jennie Gamlin
This Wellcome Trust funded research focuses is on the historicity of health inequities and the coloniality of gender as structural determinants of health. I use the political economy of gender lens to understand violence in Latin America and the concept of the “Afterlife of Colonialism” to explore and explain maternal and infant health with indigenous communities. The project will continue Jennie’s work with Wixárika indigenous communities in Mexico.

PI: Jennie Gamlin
This Wellcome Trust funded research focuses is on the historicity of health inequities and the coloniality of gender as structural determinants of health. I use the political economy of gender lens to understand violence in Latin America and the concept of the “Afterlife of Colonialism” to explore and explain maternal and infant health with indigenous communities. The project will continue Jennie’s work with Wixárika indigenous communities in Mexico.

PI: Sarah Hawkes
Global Health 50/50 (GH5050) is an independent initiative to advance action and accountability
for gender equality in global health, housed in the UCL Centre for Gender and Global Health.
Staffed by a team of dedicated strategists, researchers and gender experts, it benefits from a
high-powered Advisory Council whose members guide the work of GH5050 and engage their
networks to influence global health policy and practice. It produces an annual Global Health 50/50 Report which assesses the gender-related policies and practices of 200 organisations active in global health.

Find out more: www.globalhealth5050.org
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PI: Sarah Hawkes
The SHARE project aims to support evidence-informed public health policy-making in Bangladesh, leading to progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) and improved health equity, particularly for urban poor and those suffering from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). We propose to achieve this through efforts to strengthen public health institutions concerned with both the "supply" and the "demand" for high quality evidence in policy cycles in Bangladesh. We aim to: (1) strengthen the capacity of public health institutes in Bangladesh to engage with key decision makers to promote evidence-informed policy-cycles; and (2) strengthen the capacity of policy influencers and policy implementers to access, analyze and appropriately use high quality evidence in health policy and practice. In order to achieve these two goals we have compiled a team of Applicants and Affiliates with expertise and reach in the collection, analysis and interpretation of evidence, in addition to decision-makers embedded at key stages of the 5 yearly health policy cycle in Bangladesh.

Find out more: http://www.share4health.com/
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PI: Sarah Hawkes
Global challenges are complex, interwoven “wicked problems” whose solutions require systemic thinking, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and engagement with a range of stakeholder opinions and positions. The SELMA project aims to address the interlinked problems of inequalities, migration/refugees and global health. Using the tracer example of sexual health (sexually transmitted infections including HIV) we will explore rigorous evidence for interventions to address upstream determinants driving poor health outcomes for refugees/migrants from West Asia/Middle East North Africa (WA/MENA). Results from systematic reviews, realist reviews and mathematical modelling will be synthesised to identify effective interventions which can be translated into policy (in a range of sectors). These policy options will be assessed and refined to enhance their ‘palatability’ – i.e. their legitimacy, feasibility and acceptability with a range of key stakeholders in countries in the WA/MENA region as well as in pan-EU and national level (UK) health institutions.‍