Acknowledgements

This free course was collaboratively written by Rosie Steege, Katy Davis, Abriti Arjyal and Stephany Veuger, and was reviewed by Aisling Third, Terri Collins, Rachel McMullan, Sally Theobald and Meenakshi Monga.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources:

Images

Course image: peopleimages12/123rf

Figure 1: reproduced with permission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ

Figure 2: Göran Dahlgren and Margaret Whitehead

Figure 3: Simpson (2009), redrawn by The Open University; Simpson notes that the examples provided in the wheel are not exhaustive

Figure 4: Dias, Brouwer and van de Beek (2022)

Figure 5: Charani et al. (2021)

Figure 6: Nadimpalli et al. (2020)

Figures 7 and 8: HERD International

Figure 9: World Health Organization, available under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en

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‘Gender matters in global health …’: Global Health 5050 (n.d.)

‘Equity describes conditions in which …’: World Health Organization available here: https://www.who.int/about/policies/terms-of-use

Table 2: World Health Organization, available under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en

Rani’s story: GEAR up (‘AMR across lifecycle: the life of Rani’), available at https://gearupaction.org/amr-across-lifecycle-the-life-of-rani/ (accessed 19 June 2025)

‘Antibiotics as a quick fix for hygiene and inequality …’: BMJ Global Health

‘Why are gender and equity considerations important in AMR research? ...’: Practical Pathways to Integrating Gender and Equity Considerations in Antimicrobial Resistance Research

‘Summary of AMR and gender recommendations …’: World Health Organization, available under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/

‘Containing and controlling AMR demands coordinated, international action ...’: World Health Organization, available under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en

‘Mainstreaming gender considerations in Uganda’s NAP …’: GEAR up (2024b)

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