In the UK, medical research has long suffered from a significant oversight – the failure to adequately consider sex and gender in study design, participant selection, and data analysis. This gap has perpetuated biases in medical knowledge, diagnosis, and treatment that can affect health outcomes for all people, in particular women and girls, trans, non-binary … Read more
Recommendations drive funders and researchers to account for the role of sex and gender in health and disease. In a significant step towards closing the sex and gender health gap, The George Institute for Global Health’s Medical Science Sex and Gender Equity (MESSAGE) project has publicly launched its landmark sex and gender policy framework for UK research … Read more
Following the launch of the MESSAGE project in January 2023, there has been exciting and widespread engagement among the UK’s medical research sector on the need to improve how research accounts for sex and gender dimensions. Since December 2023, 32 members of the UK medical research sector have shown their support for the MESSAGE project’s … Read more
