Speaker: Professor Sarah Hawkes
Global Health 50/50, Lead Commissioner, co-chair of the commission (Head of Global Population Health at Monash University, Malaysia and Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Global 50/50). Sarah is a global health academic and advocate/activist. With multidisciplinary training in sociology, medicine and a PhD in epidemiology, her work sits at the interface of research and advocacy for social policy and health policy in pursuit of social justice and fairness.
Discussant: Jerker Edström
IDS Research Fellow, development social scientist and worker primarily focused on gender equality, men and masculinities, gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health and rights. He has a long history of working in HIV prevention, children and youth affected by AIDS, participation, civil society support and international health. He has led on the SIDA-funded Countering Backlash Initiative, which has aimed to create much needed new knowledge of these complex phenomena, and to identify opportunities for women’s rights organisations and other gender justice defenders to counter backlash and address the erosion of gender justice objectives within development.
Chair: Dr. Erica Nelson
IDS Research Fellow, Health and Nutrition Cluster
A historian and anthropologist whose work focusses on the entangling of past and present in global health and development processes over time. She is a Salzburg Global Fellow engaged in ‘Centering on Equity: Transforming the Health Science Knowledge Systems’ and currently leads an IDS initiative on ‘Reimagining Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Times of Crisis’. She is a founding member of the Nourish “equitable wellbeing for all” initiative and runs a short-course on Enabling Empowering Community Engagement and Involvement in Global Health Research.
14 May 2025 16:00 PM (UK time)
This event will be both in person at IDS and online
Theme:
The rollback in gender rights and challenges to global health organisations around the world threatens to reverse decades of progress on global health. This divisive landscape – and its ongoing impact on funding and action – are having stark impacts on health outcomes for people across the globe.
The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health is a multi-disciplinary group of experts at the intersection of gender and health. Together the Commission has produced new research, evidence and recommendations – to provide a practical roadmap to navigate and inform action to improve health and wellbeing for everyone.
FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO REGISTER:
Institute for Development Studies
https://www.ids.ac.uk/events/the-lancet-commission-on-gender-and-global-health-ids-launch-event/