Editorial: Communicating for social justice in health contexts: Creating opportunities for inclusivity among marginalized groups

Editorial on the Research Topic Communicating for social justice in health contexts: Creating opportunities for inclusivity among marginalized groupsThe articles in the Research Topic Communicating for social justice in health contexts: Creating opportunities for inclusivity among marginalized groups attend to the foundational premise of health equity, social justice, identity, and advocacy.They are global in their scope, spanning contexts ranging from rural voices in Chaquizhca, Ecuador, to reproductive justice and abortion, pain literacy, health practices in lowincome Malays, community participatory approaches to Chagas prevention in Guara, Ecuador, and stigma and marginalization faced by children with disabilities in Europe and Central Asia.The inequities addressed by the papers in this issue interrogate racial, structural, socio-environmental, and ethnic disparities.The Research Topic was conceived and completed before the COVID-19 pandemic, which profoundly shaped our ways of thinking about the deeply intertwined relationship between health, health communication, inclusivity, representation, and social justice.As we move into the post-acute crisis phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the continued urgency of their impact and relevance highlights how these disparities serve to increasingly perpetuate the systemic differences in the access to behavioral, preventive, and treatment opportunities by disadvantaged and vulnerable populations.The articles in the Research Topic, thus, present a rigorous examination of the structures that perpetuate the inequities in healthcare outcomes and the higher morbidity and mortality burden faced by vulnerable populations and utilize approaches ranging from a critical cultural critique of the rhetorical construction and cultural consumption of women's pain to community-based participatory research and culture-centered approaches.