Infectious Disease Prevention in Sexual Minority Groups: Advancing Sexual Epidemiology
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Infectious Diseases, Chronic Diseases, and Disease Prevention".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2026 | Viewed by 118
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sexual epidemiology; sexually transmitted infections (STIs); racial and sexual minority men; scientific innovation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue brings together cutting-edge research on the prevention and control of infectious diseases among sexual minority populations (i.e., LGBTQ+ groups). Despite decades of important work on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, sexual minority populations continue to experience disproportionate burdens of infectious disease and face persistent barriers to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Addressing these inequities requires not only advances in biomedical interventions but also new approaches to measurement, theory, and epidemiologic methods that can capture the unique determinants of health in these populations.
Building on prior scholarship that has introduced sexual epidemiology as a framework for examining the distribution and determinants of HIV/STIs among Black gay men [1], this Issue extends those insights to infectious disease prevention and control among broader sexual minority populations. The contributions highlight innovations across the prevention and control continuum, from psychological to structural determinants of sexual behaviors, to analyses of sexual experiences, to novel approaches for measuring sexuality and related behaviors.
Collectively, these contributions situate infectious disease research as a vital but not exclusive domain within a broader, emergent sexual epidemiology field of inquiry. Although not exhaustive, this Issue indicates future directions for integrating sexual epidemiology into the study of health and disease.
In this Special Issue, original research articles, including qualitative studies and review papers, are welcome.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Reference
1. Dangerfield, D.T., II. The Sexual Epidemiology of Black Sexual Minority Men. In Prevention Science & Targeted Methods for HIV/STI Research with Black Sexual Minority Men; Dangerfield, D.T., II, Ed.; Springer Nature: Cham, Switzerland, 2025; pp. 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85130-8_1 (accessed on 15 September 2025)
Dr. Derek T. Dangerfield II
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- infectious disease
- epidemiology
- social determinants
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