Towards Equity in Health: Researchers Take Stock

PLOS Medicine Editors; Annette Rid; Michael A Johansson; Gabriel Leung; Hannah Valantine; Esteban G Burchard; Sam S Oh; Cathy Zimmerman

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002186

Towards Equity in Health: Researchers Take Stock

PLoS Med. 2016 Nov 29;13(11):e1002186. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002186. eCollection 2016 Nov.

Authors

PLOS Medicine Editors; Annette Rid¹, Michael A Johansson^{2

3}, Gabriel Leung⁴, Hannah Valantine^{5

6}, Esteban G Burchard^{7

8}, Sam S Oh⁸, Cathy Zimmerman⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
² Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
³ Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁴ Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
⁵ Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
⁶ Laboratory of Genome Transplantation, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
⁷ Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
⁸ Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
⁹ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

Abstract

For the 2016 end-of-the-year editorial, the PLOS Medicine editors asked 7 global health leaders to discuss developments relevant to the equitable provision of medical care to all populations. The result is a collection of expert views on ethical trial design, research during outbreaks, high-burden infectious diseases, diversity in research and protection of migrants.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Health Equity* / trends
Humans
Social Justice* / trends

Grants and funding

EGB, SSO, HAV, CZ, MAJ, ARi, GML received no funding for this work. The PLOS Medicine editors are each paid a salary by the Public Library of Science, and they contributed to this editorial during their salaried time.