“In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the international outcry against racial injustice sparked by the Black Lives Matter movement, the British Journal of Sports Medicine is committed to using its platform to promote a healthier world,” says Drezner.
“This includes promoting the best in Sports and Exercise Medicine (SEM) science for injury and illness prevention and exemplifying principles which foster equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in research and science,” continues the Editor-in-Chief of BJSM.
The IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport has a storied history of guiding SEM research. However, it is time to move the focus from elite athlete populations in resource-rich regions to marginalised and under-represented groups who have been largely overlooked by SEM research.
BJSM is committed to centralising these marginalised groups in its research. These groups face unique health disparities that can only be addressed through contextualised research.
