Sex, gender and COVID-19: evidence, equality and inexplicable absences
Both sex and gender matter to health, yet both are frequently ignored, overlooked or misunderstood in health policies, programmes and practices. In this talk I will use COVID-19 as an example to explore the influence that sex and gender exert in driving health inequities. Data will be drawn from our global COVID-19 sex-disaggregated tracker, and reasons to explain differences in health outcomes seen in men and women will be outlined. The talk will also touch on evidence for how the global health system currently responds to sex and gender, and how it could do better in the future in order to improve the health of everyone.
Date: 15 October 2020, 16:00 (Thursday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2020)
Venue: Venue to be announced
Speaker: Sarah Hawkes (UCL)
Organising department: Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organiser: David Humphreys (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: communications@spi.ox.ac.uk
Host: David Humphreys (University of Oxford)
Part of: Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention Seminars
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://bit.ly/33XMPXw
Audience: Public
Editors: Esme Wilks, Lani Fukada