About Us
The Center for Global Women's Health and Gender Equity is at the forefront of addressing today's critical gender equity issues.
Center Mission:
To advance global women’s health and gender equity through action-oriented research, training, and translation.
Founded in 2023 and housed within the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Women’s Health and Gender Equity unites practitioners, leaders, and advocates from around the world and within Johns Hopkins University through applied research and training aimed at advancing women’s health and addressing impediments to gender equity. The Center works to power communities with the data they need to enhance women’s health and equity. The Center’s work has three focus areas: eliminating gender-based violence, resetting gendered power dynamics, and strengthening health systems for gender equity.
To connect with us please email gwhge@jhu.edu.
Focus Areas
Eliminate Gender-Based Violence
This work addresses root causes and health impact of diverse forms of gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence, and builds the evidence base for effective prevention and response.
Reset Gendered Power Dynamics
This work addresses women’s power across economic, social, and political spheres, including inheritance rights, land ownership, and time poverty, to strengthen evidence-informed policy and practice.
Strengthen Health Systems for Gender Equity
This work addresses factors like leadership and representation in governing bodies, equitable health financing, and gender responsive monitoring and evaluation to holistically improve health systems.
Guiding Principles
We are inclusive, drawing on frameworks of equity, intersectionality and social justice.
We are grounded, drawing on principles of community engagement, social determinants of health, and human rights to understand and amplify the voice and experiences of those most affected.
We are collaborative, creating spaces and opportunities to bring people together, and using innovative methods that enable connection.
Training
Our training spans coursework for current and prospective students, a Certificate program for deeper engagement, and non-degree short-courses designed for busy practitioners and decision-makers.
Research
Our applied research agenda provides evidence on the extent, underlying drivers and impacts of gender inequity – and develops and tests the next generation of innovative, evidence-based solutions.
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