As the long-standing and ubiquitous racial inequities of the United States reached national
attention, the public health community has witnessed the rise of “health equity tourism”. This …

Health-related conditions often differ qualitatively or quantitatively between individuals of
different birth-assigned sexes and gender identities, and/or with different gendered …

Differences in health outcomes across racial groups are among the most commonly reported
findings in health disparities research. Often, these studies do not explicitly connect …

Background Intersectionality is a theoretical framework rooted in the premise that human
experience is jointly shaped by multiple social positions (eg race, gender), and cannot be …

Background Human-centered design (HCD) approaches to health care strive to support the
development of innovative, effective, and person-centered solutions for health care …

Although cancer mortality rates declined in the United States in recent decades, some
populations experienced little benefit from advances in cancer prevention, early detection …

As climate change advances, communities across the United States are adapting to the
increased threat of wildfires, drought, heatwaves, and infectious diseases. Such disasters …

Background 'Intersectional stigma'is a concept that has emerged to characterize the
convergence of multiple stigmatized identities within a person or group, and to address their …

Intersectionality theory has recently emerged in the health sciences as a critical theoretical
and methodical approach. Though some scholars have outlined explicit guidelines for …

There are persistent and pervasive disparities in the health of Black people compared to non‐
Hispanic Whites in the United States. There are many reasons for this gap; this article …