Our work
The Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and
Medicine is guided by eight key principles
The Centre is engaging and collaborating with a range of stakeholders, including research funders; researchers and educators in Australian health and medical research institutes and universities; consumers, communities and people with lived experiences; policymakers; healthcare providers; and the business community.
Advancing Inclusive and Intersectional Health Equity Initiatives
The Centre endorses a strong intersectional approach to sex and gender research, policy, and practice, acknowledging the multiple factors that intersect to impact on health outcomes and health inequities. The Centre has invested in a partnership with The UNSW Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer & Trans people, and people with variations of sex characteristics (Intersex people), or CoPQTI, to ensure that the Centre’s membership has access to best practice advice on accounting for diversity in research on sex and gender in medicine.
The Centre is working closely with The Guunu-maana Program at The George Institute for Global Health to prioritise engagement with First Nations people in its establishment and growth. Gunnu-maana (meaning Heal) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program drives meaningful and ethical research and advocacy to transform the health and wellbeing of First Nations peoples and communities. Guunu-maana is led through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing to generate evidence that privileges Indigenous knowledge and translates to actions that empower peoples and communities.
