It is with great pleasure and honor that the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP), in agreement with their fifth strategic goal of publishing special issues in the ASAHP's Journal of Allied Health, introduces this special issue in Disparities in Health Professions Education and Care. This special issue addresses topics regarding under-represented and disadvantaged students and faculty and highlights curriculum recommendations in health professions education, primarily in rehabilitation sciences. Recent events have highlighted the need to understand the barriers and disparities that students pursuing careers in healthcare and practicing clinicians face or have faced throughout their careers. Having greater diversity in healthcare settings subsequently increases the quality of service and patient satisfaction of those patients from the same under-represented or disadvantaged group as their healthcare provider.