Today, we are looking at the sex and gender data gaps in medicine, how they can result in worse outcomes for everyone, what we still don't know, and how we can address the issue. Our expert in these matters is Professor Zoe Wainer, Deputy Secretary of Public Health in the Victorian Department of Health. She has a clinical background in cardiothoracic surgery and surgical oncology as well as public health and health administration, and her PhD was on sex differences in outcomes for people with lung cancer. She talks to Cosmos science journalist Ellen Phiddian.Wainer (and colleagues) published a 2020 article on addressing sex and gender analysis in The Medical Journal of Australia. That article can be read here).
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