Epidemiologic Reviews: Call for Papers
2025 Theme: Health Equity for People With Disabilities
Epidemiologic Reviews, a sister publication of the American Journal of Epidemiology, is devoted to publishing comprehensive and critical reviews on specific themes once per year. For the past several years, it has ranked in the top quartile of public, environmental, and occupational health journals.
The theme of the 2025 issue (volume 47) will be Health Equity for People With Disabilities.
People with disabilities, such as sensory, physical, or cognitive impairments, mental illness, or other conditions that affect daily life, are recognized by the National Institutes of Health as a population facing health disparities. The overall goal of this issue is to update and address critical research gaps relating to unmet health-care needs of individuals with disabilities. Topics may include, but are not limited to, prevalence; measurement; data gaps; health-care determinants; health-care access and experiences; health-care outcomes; access to and participation in research; impacts of structural ableism; and interventions and policy determinants. Reviews should focus on how to maximize inclusion and health for individuals with disabilities across the life course. Priority will be given to reviews that focus on the intersectionality with other minoritized identities (eg, race/ethnicity, gender identity, socioeconomic status) given stark health inequities for these individuals. Researchers should avoid ableist language and stereotypes; reviews that focus on disability solely as a condition to treat or cure will not be considered. Researchers are encouraged to see https://adata.org/factsheet/ADANN-writing for guidance on writing about disability. Given individual language preferences within the disability community, person-first or identify-first language may be used.
All papers must be reviews of existing studies, though reviews may cite commentaries, frameworks, and empirical papers from public health, psychosocial sciences, and biological sciences. A report of a single study is not acceptable. Explicitly cite methods used for scoping review, systematic review, or systematic reviews with meta-analysis submissions. Reviews should discuss practical implication and potential implement of study findings to maximize health and equity for disabled individuals.
Manuscript Guidelines
Manuscripts can be up to 6,000 words exclusive of the abstract, tables, figures, and references. All papers must be reviews that are mostly epidemiologic in nature; a report of a single study is not acceptable. Give explicit details of the method of literature search and use systematic reviews or systematic reviews with meta-analysis when possible. Submissions are due by May 16, 2025.
Submit your papers at the following site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/epirev
