Gender Equity Unit Director Michelle R. Kaufman, PhD, participated in a dissemination event in Guayaquil, Ecuador, addressing journalists and LGBTQI+ policy experts on preliminary findings from a study supported by the Gender Equity Unit. Speaking via live stream, Kaufman highlighted a study aimed at strengthening rights policies for LGBTQI+, trans, and gender-diverse individuals in the country.

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January is National Mentoring Month – a time to reflect on why mentoring matters and to celebrate its positive impact on both personal and professional development.

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Our faculty and staff were each asked to recommend a book on gender equity to read over the summer, and here is the “Top Ten” list from the Gender Equity Unit’s Second Annual Summer Reading List.

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The Gender Equity Unit has released its first white paper, "Advancing Gender Equity in Health Data: Insights and Learnings from the Data for Health Initiative."

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The Gender Equity Unit hosted an international convening, "Transformative Change to Close Gender Health Data Gaps: What We Can Achieve by 2030," in Istanbul, Türkiye from March 25-27, 2025.  

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A curated online repository of surveys and scales to measure constructs of gender, such as gender roles and norms, was launched today by the Gender Equity Unit at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Population Council with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Data for Health Initiative.

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With attendees and facilitators from six countries and three continents, the Gender Equity Unit held our first Data for Health international workshop in September 2024 to equip participants with the tools and methodologies needed to analyze gender-specific data effectively.

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Our expert faculty were asked to recommend a single book on gender equity to read over the summer…and here is the “Top Ten” list from the Gender Equity Unit’s first annual summer reading list. Check out both fiction and non-fiction stories of women and gender-diverse people across the globe! We hope to read your reviews on our social media channels. Happy summer!

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Exciting news from Data for Health! We’re thrilled to share the launch of the Gender Equity Unit’s first Coursera course, “Gender Foundations in Health Data.” In an ever-evolving landscape of global public health, it is imperative to recognize the profound impact of gender on health data, policy, and practice. Our course is designed to raise awareness of the essential need for a gender-sensitive approach in public health data management and analysis. “Gender Foundations in Health Data” will equip learners with practical skills and insights into integrating a gender perspective into data collection, analysis, and utilization.

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Three scholars from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have called for clearer distinctions between sex and gender in health data in an article published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) on October 1, 2023. “Effectively tracking progress on initiatives focused on gender equity requires clear differentiation between the terms sex and gender. Sex usually refers to a person’s biological characteristics, whereas gender refers to socially constructed roles and norms,” the WHO article states. “Their fundamental distinctions, however, have implications for the conduct of research and the design of interventions targeting sex- and gender-based health disparities.”

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