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 Head of the Department of Global Population Health at Monash University Malaysia, and former Professor of Global Public Health at University College London, where she led a research theme analysing the use of research evidence in policy processes, particularly in relation to gender and health equity. Sarah is also the co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health, a UK-Government-appointed Commissioner for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.
For more than 30 years she has worked with and within national Governments (predominantly in South and East Asia), UN agencies and civil society organisations promoting the use of evidence to support globally shared goals of gender equality, health equity and social justice. She has worked worked in a variety of research-focused organisations including icddr,b (Bangladesh), Population Council (India) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
