7 April 2025 was the launch date for the report of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. I'm a co-author, along with the colleagues listed below - an international network, who have been working on this project since 2020. The process was interrupted and delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic - which itself brought important issues about gender and global health to the surface. The Report is a 66-page document with a main narrative and a variety of illustrative cases of policies, programmes and problems.
On the same date, The Lancet published a 'Commentary' piece by a group of the Commissioners, responding to the current situation in world health policy created by the Trump administration's withdrawal of US support for WHO and for a range of lifesaving international health programmes; its attempt to remove all the English-language words related to gender from government documents and policies; and its open hostility to women's reproductive rights, marriage equality, and trans existence. As we note in the Commentary, what is happening in the USA is paralleled or preceded in other parts of the world.
Hawkes, Sarah, Elhadj As Sy, Gary Barker, Frances Elaine Baum, Kent Buse, Angela Y Chang, Beniamino Cislaghi, Jocalyn Clark, Raewyn Connell, Morna Cornell, Gary L Darmstadt, Carmen Simone Grilo Diniz, Sharon Friel, Indrani Gupta, Sofia Gruskin, Sarah Hill, Amy Chiaying Hsieh, Renu Khanna, Jeni Klugman, Aaron Koay, Vivian Lin, Khadija T Moalla, Erica Nelson, Lynsey Robinson, Nina Schwalbe, Ravi Verma, Virginia Zarulli. 2025. Achieving Gender Justice for Global Health Equity: The Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. The Lancet Commissions. Published online April 7, 2025, at https://doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(25)00488-X.
You should be able to find a copy of this report, free to download, here: https://authors.elsevier.com/
Hawkes, Sarah, Raewyn Connell, Jocalyn Clark, Jeni Klugman, Gary L Darmstadt, Erica Nelson, Amy Chiaying Hsieh, Elhadj As Sy, Gary Barker, Beniamino Cislaghi, Kent Buse. 2025. 'Gender and Global Health: Going, going, but not gone'. Comment in The Lancet, Doctopic: Analysis and Interpretation, THELANCET-D-25-01866, S0140-6736(25)00617-8 , published online April 7, 2025, at https://doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(25)00617-8.
