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Advancing Transgender Health Equity

Edited by:

Ana Lorena Ruano, PhD, University of Bergen, Norway
Pablo Gaitán-Rossi, PhD, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
Angel Phuti, PhD, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 15 June 2025 
 

International Journal for Equity in Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on Advancing Transgender Health Equity.


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New Content ItemThis Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Well-Being, SDG 5: Gender Equality, and SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities.

About the Collection

This Collection aims to explore the multifaceted health disparities faced by transgender individuals worldwide. We invite submissions that address the unique physical, mental, and social health challenges experienced by transgender populations, including access to healthcare, quality of care, and the impact of societal and structural discrimination.

We encourage contributions from diverse disciplines and methodological approaches, including but not limited to, public health, sociology, psychology, medicine, and health policy. Manuscripts presenting original research, systematic reviews, and case studies illuminating the barriers and facilitators to health equity for transgender individuals are particularly welcome.

  1. This study aims to assess the physical health of individuals belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community, considering health system challenges like access to care and pati...

    Authors: Wassim Daoud Khatoun, Ali Slim, Jana Makhlouf, Sam S. S. Lau, Marco C. H. Cheng, Alissa Chebat, Michel Boustany, Elio Tahan and Carmel Bouclaous
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2025 24:95
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. With the proliferation of anti-transgender policies in some U.S. jurisdictions, this study examines the general, mental, and physical health of transgender and cisgender populations.

    Authors: Sunday Azagba, Galappaththige S. R. de Silva and Todd Ebling
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2025 24:37
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Most transgender people face different conditions of health vulnerability on a daily basis. In the Brazilian context, no research review has been found on such situations in the light of the theoretical concep...

    Authors: Francisca Lidiane Sampaio Freitas, Ximena Pamela Claudia Díaz Bermúdez, Edgar Merchán-Hamann, Adriano Santiago Dias dos Santos and Victor Fonseca Vieira
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:272
    Content type: Review Published on:

  4. Despite the critical importance of humanized healthcare for transgender individuals, no existing measures specifically assess care humanization for this population. The Transgender Health Care Humanization Sca...

    Authors: Liliane Lins-Kusterer, Nicolle Melo Vieira and Carlos Brites
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:265
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Experiences of discrimination in healthcare lead to poorer mental and physical health for transgender individuals. There is evidence that trans-specialists, i.e. health professionals specializing in transgende...

    Authors: Tobias Skuban-Eiseler, Marcin Orzechowski and Florian Steger
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:225
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are important predictors of mental health outcomes in adulthood. However, commonly used ACE measures such as the Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) have not...

    Authors: Christoffer Dharma, Katherine M. Keyes, Kara E. Rudolph, Cho-Hee Shrader, Yen-Tyng Chen, John Schneider and Dustin T. Duncan
    Citation: International Journal for Equity in Health 2024 23:74
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original research, systematic reviews, and case studies. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Advancing Transgender Health Equity" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.