Global 50/50

Global 50/50 informs gender-just change in policy and practice – building fairer, more equitable workplaces, enabling women’s leadership, and strengthening health policies that work for everyone. Through independent research, organisational assessments, partnership, and convening actors, we bring stakeholders together around an evidence-informed gender-just agenda.

Since 2017, Global Health 50/50 has been a trusted, evidence-driven authority advancing accountability for gender equality in the global health sector. Our work has helped catalyse change across the policies, practices, and leadership of 200 organisations working in global health – establishing a global benchmark for progress and transparency on equality.

But the forces driving gender inequality don’t stop at the borders of health. They are systemic, deeply rooted, and embedded across the worlds of justice, finance, education, and more. Global 50/50 now brings together a unified brand architecture and bold new vision: to expose and address gender inequality across global systems. Anchored by our parent brand, Global 50/50, our work includes: Global Health 50/50 and Global Justice 50/50.

Each initiative builds on GH5050’s proven methodology: rigorous, transparent research that not only highlights disparities but activates data for accountability and drives reform.

Our initiative brings together leading feminists, doctors, academics, and policy and political experts from all corners of the world. From the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and UN policy leaders, to journalists, advocates and university academics, G5050 represents one of the most experienced and powerful teams assembled to tackle these challenges. Meet the team.

Global 50/50 (as Global Health 50/50) was co-founded and is co-directed by Professor Sarah Hawkes, Director of the Centre of Gender and Global Health at University College London, and Professor Kent Buse, Director of Global Healthier Societies, The George Institute for Global Health.