title: Looking forward to the next 15 years: innovation and new pathways for research in health equity.
abstract: Since our launch in 2002, the International Journal for Equity in Health (IJEqH) has furthered our collective understanding of equity in health and health services by providing a platform on which academics and practitioners can share their work. Today, we celebrate our fifteenth anniversary with an article collection that presents a call for new and novel research in equity in health and we invite our authors to use new approaches and methods, and to focus on emerging areas of research related to health equity in order to set the stage for the next fifteen years of health equity research.Our anniversary issue provides a platform for expanding the conceptualization, diversity of populations and study designs, and for increasing the use of novel methodologies in the field. The IJEqH has helped to support the wider group of researchers, policymakers and practitioners with a commitment to social justice and equity but there is still more to do. With the help of the highly committed editorial team and editorial board, the innovative work of researchers worldwide, and the countless of hours dedicated by hundreds of reviewers, we are confident in the IJEqH's ability to continue supporting the dissemination of health equity research for years to come.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Equity and Governance in Health Systems, CEGSS, Guatemala City, Guatemala. ana.lorena.ruano@cih.uib.no.|Center for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. ana.lorena.ruano@cih.uib.no.
authors.forename: Ana Lorena
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-3913-4228
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Ruano
authors.affiliation: The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, Faculty of Socail Welfare and Health Sciences, the University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Efrat
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Shadmi
authors.affiliation: Department of General Practice, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Furler
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Krishna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Unit of Epidemiology and Global Health Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden.
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: San Sebastián
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Villar Uribe
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Leiyu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D000069576:Health Equity / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends*; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012935:Social Justice / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends*
keywords: Cooperation; Equity; Indigenous peoples; Non-Nationals; Qualitative methods; Refugees; Right to health; SDGs; Social justice