Browse Hierarchy IPH7127: Gender Sexuality and Health

The need for greater critical engagement with sex, gender, and sexuality in health research and practice has been widely acknowledged. Some call for outdated binaries and dichotomies to be contested and broken down, for greater attention to inequalities shaped by gender differences, and for health services and practices to be more sensitive to gender and sexuality. Through dialogue, debate and critical thinking we will explore gender, sexuality, and health from foundational concepts and theories through to current issues in public health policy and practice. Calling on social science, humanities and health science concepts, scholarship and evidence we will aim to develop a nuanced understanding of how gender and sexuality interact with society and medicine to produce particular social realities, health issues and inequalities.