This article considers the current and future state of diversity in the ophthalmology workforce, including recommendations on how to achieve this. Diversification is considered an essential step for reducing health disparities in ophthalmology.
The purpose of this article is to outline the existing disparities in vision health and eye care, explore the possible reasons for these disparities, offer potential solutions, and ultimately stimulate the ophthalmology, eye care, and vision sciences community to move forward toward achieving equity in eye and vision health.
This article provides data collection recommendations that may help provide a framework for understanding how data could be leveraged to close the gap in health care disparities and elevate the standard of care.
Developing a working and inclusive definition of access to eye care.
This Personal View supports SDGs 3 and 16, focusing on Indigenous epistemologies in planetary health and suggesting ways to work progressively towards a decolonial vision of planetary health.
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by highlighting substantial ethnoracial inequalities in child mortality in Brazil, especially among the Indigenous and Black populations.
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 6 by demonstrating that polio environmental surveillance by testing wastewater samples is a valuable tool for tracking the distribution of polio and non-polio enteroviruses, and could be instrumental for global poliovirus elimination efforts.
The lung is a crucial immune organ continuously exposed to the external environment. Genetic defects that impair immune function, called inborn errors of immunity (IEI), often have lung disease as the initial and/or primary manifestation. Common types of lung disease seen in IEI include infectious complications and a diverse group of diffuse interstitial lung diseases.
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by progressive muscle weakness. Adenine nucleotide translocator 1 (ANT1), the only 4q35 gene involved in mitochondrial function, is strongly expressed in FSHD skeletal muscle biopsies. However, its role in FSHD is unclear. In this study, we evaluated ANT1 overexpression effects in primary myoblasts from healthy controls and during Xenopus laevis organogenesis. We also compared ANT1 overexpression effects with the phenotype of FSHD muscle cells and biopsies.
This Article supports SDG 3 and 5 by highlighting a need for greater involvement of in-country authors on research examining a wider range of gendered COVID-19 impacts, as well as increased representation of diverse topics and publications related to COVID-19 and women's well-being focused on lower income countries.
