Note from the Editor

As our 30th anniversary volume draws to a close, we are pleased to present both our regular issue for November as well as a supplemental issue. The supplement, guest edited by Dr. Stephen Sodeke of Tuskegee University, includes papers developed from talks presented at the 2019 Bioethics Issues Conference on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research hosted by Tuskegee University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center on January 23–25, 2019. It delves into issues such as the use of biological specimens for research and the nature of informed consent, the tension between genomics and social influences on health, and the trails blazed by heroes in the area of bioethics. We recommend it to our readers warmly.

This issue's column from the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved, our sister organization, provides an overview of the group's annual conference in the District of Columbia. We hope it will encourage all of our readers to support ACU and to join us for next year's conference.

In the regular issue, readers will find (a) papers concerning health professions education; (b) one literature review on community-engaged research with Pacific Islander communities and another on the paucity of research on Black Canadian women in the areas of breast and cervical cancer; (c) two papers concerning people from Haiti (one on teledermatology in Haiti and the other on Haitian stroke patients in Miami) and one concerning homeless people in Johannesburg, South Africa; and (d) a large series of papers concerning clinical care and health policy in the U.S., ranging from one concerning the amount of health care used by Muslim patients during Ramadan to several on the effects of the Affordable Care Act to a paper on transgender stigma among physicians in Puerto Rico.

At this time every year, I am privileged to be able to thank the generous external peer reviewers who contribute their time, expertise, and guidance to help the authors and editors make this journal the best it can be. Without them, our work would be impossible. Thank you!