Professor Sarah Hawkes

Sarah Hawkes is a global health academic and advocate. With training in sociology and medicine, and a PhD in epidemiology, she works at the intersection of research and advocacy, shaping social and health policy in pursuit of justice and fairness. Sarah is currently establishing a new Department of Global Population Health at Monash University Malaysia, focused on the social and structural determinants of health.

Over the past 30 years, she has worked at research organizations including icddr,b in Bangladesh and the Population Council in India, as well as academic institutions including the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College London. Sarah served as co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. She is also a UK government-appointed commissioner on the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, where she chairs the Awards Policy Committee.

Alongside Professor Kent Buse, she is co-founder and co-CEO of Global 50/50, which advances action and accountability for gender equality in the health, law, and justice sectors.