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By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Recall how sex and gender are defined in a medical context and summarise the distinction between these two concepts, as well as related ideas including intersectionality.
• Understand the role of sex and gender as key modifiers of health and disease, across a range of health conditions and medical specialities.
• Describe the changing influences of sex and gender across the life course, considering periods of particularly important change such as puberty, the perinatal period and menopause.
• Design a research study to account for sex and gender across data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Apply a sex and gender lens to medical research across the life course and evaluate how well existing research, policies or clinical guidelines account for sex and gender to inform knowledge about human health.

For participants completing Module 6 on Statistical Methods for Sex- and Gender-Disaggregated Analysis, additional learning outcomes will be:

• Conduct sex- and gender-disaggregated statistical analysis of participant data
• Meta-analyse sex- or gender-specific summary data from published literature

Through this course, participants will learn how sex and gender are defined in the context of health research and policy, how to distinguish between the two concepts, and how these variables influence illness across the life course. Participants will discover how health research has poorly accounted for sex and gender historically, creating a gender data gap with negative consequences for health outcomes.

The course has a practical focus aimed at upskilling participants to understand emerging requirements for sex and gender equity in health research and to meet and promote these requirements in their own work. Training will cover practical steps and considerations needed to account for sex and gender at each stage of the research cycle, including study design, data collection, data analysis and reporting of findings. Participants will also learn how to critically appraise existing research and policy through a sex and gender lens.

For researchers working with human participants and/or data, an optional in-depth practical module (Statistical Methods for Sex- and Gender-Disaggregated Analysis) is available for an additional cost.

Research Fellow, School of Public Health, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine

Research Fellow, School of Public Health, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine; Psychiatrist, NHS

Policy Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health

Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Academic Clinical Lecturer in Medical Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute; Speciality Doctor in Adult Gender Identity Medicine, NHS

Doctor, NHS; Council for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Medical Women’s Federation

Professor of Skeletal and Developmental Biology, University of Southampton

Advanced Research Fellow, School of Public Health, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½; Senior Lecturer, School of Population Health, University of New South Wales; Program Lead for Universal Health Coverage, The George Institute for Global Health

Co-founder, Women’s Brain Project; Clinical Operations and Partnerships Manager, Syntropic; Lecturer, CAS Gender Medicine Switzerland; Scientific Advisor, Walking the Talk for Dementia; Researcher, Karolinska Institute; Co-founder, ASSAI

Executive Publisher, Elsevier

Provost's Visiting Professor in Global Cancer Equity, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and Consultant, Médecins Sans Frontières

Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology and Data Science, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

Chair of Global Women’s Health, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½; Director of Women’s Health, The George Institute for Global Health; Consultant Obstetrician, NHS

Clinical Professor in Reproductive Endocrinology and Andrology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½; Consultant in Reproductive Endocrinology, NHS and Head of Andrology, St. Mary's and Hammersmith Hospitals

Co-founder, Women in Pharma

Professor, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and Deputy Associate Dean of Research, Deakin University

Associate Professor in Reproductive Immunology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½

Clinical Senior Lecturer, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and the George Institute for Global Health; Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, NHS

Program Director, Healthier Societies Strategy, The George Institute for Global Health; Researcher at Harvard, University of New South Wales and Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of London and University Medical Centre Utrecht

Academic Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Institute for Global Health, UCL; Honorary Consultant, Public Health Medicine, UKHSA and the Met office

Dr Anna-Louise Pouncey
NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Vascular Surgery, St George’s, University of London

Co-founder, Women in Pharma

Clinical Associate Professor in Cardiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½; Consultant Cardiologist, NHS

Research Fellow, Movember; Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London