The Society for Equity Neuroscience (SEQUINS)

Globally, nervous system disorders disproportionately affect certain racial and ethnic groups (e.g., Black, Indigenous, and people of color), people of lower socioeconomic status, and individuals living in underserved regions. These disease disparities, which are primarily driven by structural inequities, are expected to worsen with time. To help stem the rise in global neurological burden by focusing research on high-risk populations, the Society for Equity Neuroscience (SEQUINS) was founded in 2024 with the mission “to advance brain health equity through science”. SEQUINS aims to nurture and grow an intellectual, interconnected, and international community, fully engaged in synergistic activities that bend the neurological disparities curve. These activities include hosting an annual scientific meeting and overseeing a discipline-specific scientific journal, both set to begin in 2025. The SEQUINS annual meeting will be held in Spring each year, as a one-day multidisciplinary scientific forum focused on nervous system health and care, with the overarching goal of accelerating the translation of research findings to improve outcomes for disparate populations.  The journal, entitled Equity Neuroscience (EQN), will be a peer-reviewed open access online journal, which publishes the scholarly progress of work to understand and overcome neurological inequities and disparities based on sex, race, ethnicity, geography, and socioeconomic status. Consider joining the growing SEQUINS community. Please find out more about SEQUINS at https://www.s-equi-ns.org and email questions to [email protected].