The South African Learning Alliance for the District Health System (SALAD)
28 May 2026
- Phoene Oware, Guest Editor and Post-Doc, SOPH
- Humphrey Ndondo, Guest Editor
- Asha George, SARChI Chair and Professor at UWC School of Public Health
- Eszter Kismődi – Chief Executive, SRHM
- Sapna Desai, SRHM Editor-in-Chief
- TK Sundari Ravindran, SRHM Senior Editor
- Pete Chapman, SRHM Managing Editor
UWC Team Members
*indicates student or postdoctoral fellow
- *Phoene Oware, Guest Editor
- Asha George, SARChI Chair and Professor at UWC School of Public Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) is launching a themed issue – in partnership with the School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, South Africa – on Queering Health Systems
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM), in partnership with the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, is inviting proposals for a themed issue on Queering Health Systems.
Project Period
Jan 2026 – Dec 2027
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM), in partnership with the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, invites proposals for a themed issue on Queering Health Systems. Across diverse global contexts, people with marginalised sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) continue to face exclusion, stigma, criminalisation and denial of care within health systems. These inequities are increasingly intensified by anti-gender movements, shrinking civic space and punitive legal environments. This themed issue positions queering health systems as both a critical analytical lens and a transformative political practice. It seeks to challenge cisnormative, heteronormative and binary assumptions embedded in health policies, institutions and service delivery models, while centring the lived experiences, knowledge and leadership of LGBTQI+ communities. We welcome emailed proposals for submissions to this themed issue on any of the topics below (or beyond) as they relate to ‘Queering Health Systems’:
- Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging: disrupting normativity and reimagining foundations
- How queering health systems addresses structural barriers and health inequities
- Queer-affirming models of care and service delivery
- Health workforce transformation and provider competencies
- Community leadership, agency, and accountability
- Data justice, measurement and visibility