Maria Lohan

Professor Maria Lohan is Chair in Social Sciences and Health and UNESCO Chair on Masculinities and Gender Equality at Queen’s University Belfast. She is also a HIAS Bridges Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hitotsubashi University Japan.

Her research focuses on improving boys and men's men's sexual health, reproductive health and their involvement in parenting.

Professor Lohan’s interdisciplinary team is dedicated to improving a/ the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls through men’s engagement and support for gender equality and b/ meeting men’s own sexual and reproductive health needs.

She leads a programme of research undertaking systematic reviews and developing, evaluating, and implementing evidence-based educational and health care interventions, such as comprehensive sexuality education in schools and prisons to engage men and boys.

The objective of this research is to generate new thinking on men’s roles in sexual health, reproduction, and parenting and in promoting gender equality.