About this Research Topic
Sex and gender play a significant role in shaping women’s, men’s, and non-binary individuals’ health and wellbeing. COVID-19 in particular has drawn unprecedented attention to the important role that sex and gender play in health and disease outcomes. Concurrently, it is important to maintain a focus on those sex and gender differences in health and disease which are exacerbated during times of crises, and to foster learnings across disciplines and health topics related to sex and gender. Much of the current literature focuses on identifying how sex and gender impact health and disease outcomes - i.e. what are the sex and gender differences and/or disparities related to communicable and non-communicable health, mental health, and health systems access and delivery. There has been less attention on what actually works to address inequitable sex and gender disparities in health and disease, and how these may be shaped by other interconnecting identity-based characteristics such as age, socio-economic status, occupation etc.
This Research Topic will focus on exploring what works in terms of rectifying sex and gender disparities in health and disease outcomes. We are interested in interdisciplinary approaches related to research and/or program implementation.
- How have research, programs, interventions and/or policy effectively: addressed inequitable sex or gender differences; promoted gender transformative change; challenged inequitable gender norms, roles, and relations; advocated for the inclusion of sex differences?
- What lessons have been learned and what steps need to be taken to enact future change within research, programing and policy?
We welcome a broad range of contributions, including Original Research, Reviews, Commentaries, Systematic Reviews, Reflections, and Interviews. We particularly welcome contributions from those who have been traditionally underrepresented within academic publishing, including early career researchers, those from low- and middle-income country contexts, and minority populations.
We would like to acknowledge Vicha Adri who has acted as coordinator and contributed to the preparation of the proposal for this Research Topic.
Please note that Frontiers also offers a Fee Support Program, available to any authors seeking financial support. If you would like any further information about this, please get in touch with the Editorial Office at globalwomenshealth@frontiersin.org.
If you would like input on whether your topic or approach would be a good fit for this Research Topic, please email Rosemary Morgan at rosemary.morgan@jhu.edu, including your name, paper topic, and approach.
This Research Topic will focus on exploring what works in terms of rectifying sex and gender disparities in health and disease outcomes. We are interested in interdisciplinary approaches related to research and/or program implementation.
- How have research, programs, interventions and/or policy effectively: addressed inequitable sex or gender differences; promoted gender transformative change; challenged inequitable gender norms, roles, and relations; advocated for the inclusion of sex differences?
- What lessons have been learned and what steps need to be taken to enact future change within research, programing and policy?
We welcome a broad range of contributions, including Original Research, Reviews, Commentaries, Systematic Reviews, Reflections, and Interviews. We particularly welcome contributions from those who have been traditionally underrepresented within academic publishing, including early career researchers, those from low- and middle-income country contexts, and minority populations.
We would like to acknowledge Vicha Adri who has acted as coordinator and contributed to the preparation of the proposal for this Research Topic.
Please note that Frontiers also offers a Fee Support Program, available to any authors seeking financial support. If you would like any further information about this, please get in touch with the Editorial Office at globalwomenshealth@frontiersin.org.
If you would like input on whether your topic or approach would be a good fit for this Research Topic, please email Rosemary Morgan at rosemary.morgan@jhu.edu, including your name, paper topic, and approach.
Keywords: sex differences, gender, health, disease, implementation, health disparities
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