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Promoting gender justice through accountability Global 5050 (G5050) was established in 2017 with the aim of advancing action and accountability for gender justice across the global health sector. By reviewing the same set of organisations each year, G5050 monitors policies and practices to achieve gender equality and wider aspects of inclusion and belonging in the workplaces and programmatic activities of 200 of the most influential and powerful stakeholders in the sector. In 2025 this work has become ever more needed and ever more challenging. This talk will present findings from across the 8 years of data, and will explore how we can counter the current turn towards regressive removal of commitments, policies and practices to promote justice and fairness for all.

Sarah Hawkes is a global health academic and advocate/activist. With a multidisciplinary training in sociology, medicine and a PhD in epidemiology, her work sits at the interface of research and advocacy for social policy and health policy in pursuit of social justice and fairness. Sarah is currently establishing a new Department of Global Population Health at Monash ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Malaysia, and has worked in a variety of research-focused organisations including icddr,b (Bangladesh), Population Council (India), and academic institutions including London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ College London. Sarah is co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health, a UK- Government-appointed Commissioner for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and alongside Professor Kent Buse she is co-founder and co-CEO of G5050 which advances action and accountability for gender equality in the health, law and finance sectors.