On April 7, World Health Day, The Lancet commission on Gender and Global Health launched its new report highlighting how gender justice in global health improves health outcomes and reduces inequalities for everyone.  Stanford Global Health Core Leader Gary Darmstadt is a commissioner.

The report demonstrates how to reform global health systems and structures, providing practical opportunities to implement a gender lens approach into everyday work. It offers a practical toolbox of solutions to integrate gender into global health systems through reimagining health policies, program and practices.

“Our new report – four years in the making – highlights how gender justice in global health improves health outcomes and reduces inequalities for everyone,” said Darmstadt. “Gender is a social construct that involves hierarchies of power and influences everything from the resources and opportunities available to you, to the health care you receive.”

Darmtadt added, “We seek a world where everyone can thrive, and in this report, demonstrate how to reform global health systems and structures, providing practical opportunities to implement considerations of gender into everyday work and contribute to equality of opportunities and improved health for all.”

Read the full report.