PCD’s Commitment to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Its Scientific Leadership, Peer-Review Process, Research Focus, Training, and Continuing Education

This position statement expresses Preventing Chronic Disease’s (PCD’s) commitment to continuously assess our focus, document our accomplishments, and identify new areas of growth. It begins with a brief overview of the burden of chronic diseases in the United States to emphasize why the journal remains committed to publishing peer-reviewed content that contributes new knowledge on innovative ways to ameliorate these long-standing public health challenges. Keeping PCD in the best position to publish relevant peer-reviewed articles requires that we continue our efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as best practices at all levels of operation. Hence, this position statement discusses the evolution of the journal’s mission statement and its current topic areas of interest and proposes activities to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through scientific leadership, the peerreview process, research focus, and provision of training and continuing education.