A Gendered Emergency Framework: Integrating Sex, Gender and Equity into Emergency Management

Authors

  • Lorraine Greaves PhD Centre of Excellence for Women's Health Author
  • Nancy Poole PhD Centre of Excellence for Women's Health Author
  • Ella Huber BA (Hons) Centre of Excellence for Women's Health Author
  • Carol Muñoz Nieves MA Centre of Excellence for Women's Health Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/mzx56v50

Keywords:

emergency management, gender, sex, equity

Abstract

As disasters, climate emergencies, public health crises, and security threats and conflicts increase in Canada, so do concerns about their inequitable impacts. Canada’s 2023 Chief Public Health Officer’s Report, Creating the Conditions for Resilient Communities: A Public Health Approach to Emergencies, highlighted the unequal impacts of emergencies in Canada and advocated for an improved public health and health promotion response. This article describes the Gendered Emergency Management Framework (GEM-F), developed as a practical tool to support emergency personnel, planners, and policy makers in integrating sex, gender, trauma and equity-informed considerations across the emergency management continuum, applicable to climate disasters, pandemics or conflict situations. The GEM-F is built on academic evidence, grey literature, and consultations with Canadian and Australian experts, and suggests the integration of sex and gender based analysis plus (SGBA+), and trauma-informed, equity-oriented, and gender transformative approaches into all phases of emergency management. The consistent application of the GEM-F in policy, practice and training could improve preparedness and post-event outcomes, along with overall gender and health equity.

 

Author Biographies

  • Lorraine Greaves PhD, Centre of Excellence for Women's Health

    Lorraine Greaves is a medical sociologist and Senior Investigator at the Centre of Excellence for Women's Health and Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. She is an expert on sex and gender impacts on health, women's health and well-being, and gender transformative health promotion.

  • Nancy Poole PhD, Centre of Excellence for Women's Health

    Nancy Poole is Director of the Centre of Excellence for Women's Health. She is expert in knowledge translation, trauma informed practice and the impacts of alcohol on health.

  • Ella Huber BA (Hons), Centre of Excellence for Women's Health

    Ella Huber is Knowledge Exchange Lead and Researcher at the Centre of Excellence for Women's Health.

  • Carol Muñoz Nieves MA, Centre of Excellence for Women's Health

    Carol Muñoz Nieves MA, is the Project Manager and Research at the Centre of Excellence for Women's Health.

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2026-02-23

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Research Papers

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A Gendered Emergency Framework: Integrating Sex, Gender and Equity into Emergency Management. (2026). Canadian Journal of Emergency Management, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.25071/mzx56v50