About the Journal

Journal of Digital Health Equity (JDHE) is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to examining the relationship between digital transformation and health equity, with particular attention to low- and middle-income countries. The journal explores how digital technologies reshape health systems, governance, and access to care within contexts marked by structural inequality and persistent digital divides.

We prioritize critical and interdisciplinary scholarship that goes beyond technological adoption to investigate how policy environments, institutional structures, data infrastructures, and algorithmic systems influence who benefits from digital health innovation and who remains excluded. 

The journal welcomes research on digital health systems and infrastructure, the digital divide and structural inequities, governance and regulatory frameworks, the political economy of digital health, and accountability in artificial intelligence and health data systems. JDHE particularly encourages contributions that provide systems-level analysis and empirical evidence from Southeast Asia and other LMIC contexts.  It publishes original papers emerging from empirical studies. We welcome short communications, systematic reviews, case reports, and letters to the editor on the above-mentioned areas. 

By fostering rigorous, equity-centered scholarship, JDHE aims to advance a deeper understanding of how digital health transformation can contribute to more just and inclusive health systems.

The journal is published biannually (June and December)