National Men's Health Policies
As part of its goal to promote and distribute evidence of knowledge, good practice and evidence-based policy and practice in men’s and boys’ health, GAMH has chosen making the case for national men’s health policies as one of its policy priorities.
GAMH is committed to supporting the development of national men’s health policies across the globe. In July 2025, we submitted evidence in the run-up to the announcement of a strategy in England and are members of England’s stakeholder implementation group. We are working with the German Men’s Health Foundation and the Global Health Hub Germany on the development of a policy for Germany. We are also supporting the development in Canada of a men’s health policy.
Reports
Independent Review of Healthy Ireland
The National Men's Action Plan
A review of the Healthy Ireland Men Action Plan 2017-21 prepared for HSE Health and Wellbeing (Ireland) by Peter Baker of Global Action on Men’s Health (submitted: November 2022; published: January 2025).
Webinars
Accompanying the work is a series of webinars which you can find on our webinar page.
COUNTRIES WITH NATIONAL POLICIES
Countries with national men’s health policies or strategies:
- Australia
- Brazil (in Portuguese)
- England
- Iran (paper in English)
- Ireland
- Malaysia (in Malay)
- Mongolia (WHO article)
- Philippines
- South Africa
WHO Europe also has a men’s health strategy for the region.