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The Gender Equity Unit: Accelerating Gender Equity through Health Data

The Gender Equity Unit: Accelerating Gender Equity through Health Data

Read about the commitment “Building a health data ecosystem that counts and values the lives of all people” by Gender Equity Unit at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative here. 

Robust health data and dedication to equality underpin a functional health system that works for everyone. At the 2024 UN World Data Forum, the Gender Equity Unit (GEU) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health committed to using their expertise to close gender gaps in health data in low- and middle-income countries and have already made great progress towards this goal. 

Participants listening to the presentations at the “Transformative Change to Close Gender Health Data Gaps: What We Can Achieve by 2030” event in Istanbul.

Since last November, the GEU has held several workshops and trainings around the world, ensuring that health data and research not only include a gendered lens, but actively work to accelerate gender equity. 

Clara Flores and the Solomon Islands National University team at the Female Death Registration workshop. 

Global Action for Gender Equity

  • 30 July 2025: Ashta Ramaiya, Technical Assistance Lead at GEU, participated in a co-investigation meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to discuss the findings of the study with conducted with CREMES International, Viral Strategies, and the CDC Foundation on barriers to female death registration in Tanzania. 
  • 19 July 2025: GEU, Vital Strategies, and BRAC JPG School of Public Health launched the results of their study “Barriers to and Facilitators of Female Death Registration in Bangladesh” and disseminated the findings that property ownership determines whether women’s deaths are recorded in Bangladesh. 
  • May 2025: GEU’s Clara Flores held a four-day data collection workshop with GEU’s partners at Solomon Islands National University as part of the ongoing Female Death Registration project. 
  • April 2025: GEU Post-Doctoral fellow Xueli Qiu participated in a consultation workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on gender-intentional planning for the country’s Digital Health Information for Immunization Roadmap. 
  • April 2025: GEU professor Liesl Nydegger facilitated the CRVS Applied Research and Training in Sri Racha, Thailand.  

  • 25-27 March 2025: The GEU hosted the “Transformative Change to Close Gender Health Data Gaps: What We Can Achieve by 2030” in Istanbul, Türkiye. Government officials from the Global South, public health experts, and grassroots organization leaders convened to share expertise and discuss how to transform health data to advance gender equity.  

    Ashta Ramaiya and BRAC partners at the dissemination event for the “Barriers to and Facilitators of Female Death Registration in Bangladesh” study.

    Learn more:

    Despite all their progress, the GEU is far from finished with promoting gender equitable health data. Check out the white paper “Advancing Gender Equity in Health Data: Insights and Learnings from the Data for Health Initiative” or take their free "Gender Foundations in Health Data: A Data for Health Course” class to learn more about the importance of gendered approaches to health and health data.