Gender is a powerful determinant of human health globally. Men's, women’s and transgender health are driven strongly by social constructions of gender performance across the life-course. Men live shorter lives, have higher cancer, cardiovascular disease, and higher suicide rates. Women suffer from higher rates of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, dementia, interpersonal violence, rape, and poverty globally. Further, a binary view of gender is no longer considered useful from a public health perspective, as transgender people continue to suffer some of the highest rates of interpersonal violence and suicide globally. This unit will adopt a non-binary, social determinants approach to defining and studying gender from an intersectional perspective. It will emphasise how a focus on gender equity generates improvement in population health globally. This is a multidisciplinary and interprofessional unit and welcomes students from a wide range of courses.