Gender in Infectious Diseases: Impact and Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

Despite decades of understanding that sex and gender issues are especially important in infectious diseases, the impacts on health, public health, and disease are routinely overlooked despite data and practice. Recent epidemics and pandemics have underscored the importance of understanding how sex and gender impact adequate response to disasters. Sex (male/female/intersex) and gender (cisgender/transgender/non-binary) impact vulnerability, exposure risk, and treatment and response that affect incidence, duration, severity, morbidity, mortality, and disability of infectious diseases prevention and control programs. Incorporation of these factors are a priority at the local, national, and global policy levels to fulfil the gaps in scientific research, public health intervention programs and pharmaceutical service strengthening to reduce emerging disease inequities in the population during pandemics and epidemics. A failure to do so creates acceptance of the inequities and infringes on fairness and human rights norms. This Special Issue aims to provide multidisciplinary perspectives on the impacts of sex and gender for infectious disease programming and practice.  We invite submissions from health professionals, epidemiologists, healthcare providers, public health practitioners, social scientists, and researchers to provide different perspectives regarding the opportunities, challenges, impact, and perspectives that assure health equity for all sexes and genders in disease prevention and control programs.

Prof. Dr. Lynn Lieberman Lawry
Guest Editor

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• sex
• gender
• infectious diseases
• health equity
• mortality
• morbidity
• pandemics
• epidemics
• pharmacokinetics
• pharmacodynamics
• pharmacovigilance
• tyranny of the urgent
• antimicrobial resistance