Developing and sustaining inclusive language in biomedical informatics communications

an AMIA Board of Directors endorsed paper on the Inclusive Language and Context Style Guidelines

Bear Don’t Walk, Oliver IV PhD
Haldar, Shefali PhD; Formal analysis; Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing
Wei, Duo (Helen) PhD; Investigation; Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing
Huang, Hu PhD, ACHIP; Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing
Rivera, Rebecca L PhD, MPH, CPH; Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing
Fan, Jungwei W PhD; Writing - review & editing
Keloth, Vipina K PhD; Writing - review & editing
Leung, Tiffany I MD, MPH; Writing - review & editing
Desai, Pooja BA; Writing - review & editing
Korngiebel, Diane M DPhil; Writing - review & editing
Grossman Liu, Lisa MD, PhD; Writing - review & editing
Pichon, Adrienne MPH, MPhil, MA; Writing - review & editing
Subbian, Vignesh PhD; Writing - review & editing
Solomonides, Anthony (Tony) PhD; Writing - review & editing
Wiley, Laura K PhD; Writing - review & editing
Ogunyemi, Omolola PhD; Writing - review & editing
Jackson, Gretchen P MD, PhD; Writing - review & editing
Dankwa-Mullan, Irene MD, MPH; Writing - review & editing
Dirks, Lisa G MS, MLIS, MAdm; Writing - review & editing
Everhart, Avery Rose PhD; Writing - review & editing
Parker, Andrea G PhD
Iott, Bradley PhD; Writing - review & editing
Kronk, Clair PhD; Conceptualization; Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing
Foraker, Randi PhD, MA; Conceptualization; Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing
Martin, Krista BA; Writing - review & editing
Anand, Tara BA; Writing - review & editing
Volpe, Salvatore G MA; Writing - review & editing
Yung, Nathan MD, MS; Writing - review & editing
Rizvi, Rubina MD, PhD; Writing - review & editing
Lucero, Robert PhD, MPH, RN; Writing - review & editing
Bright, Tiffani J PhD; Conceptualization; Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing

Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
Merck & Co., Inc., Boston, MA 02115, United States
School of Business, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ 08205, United States
Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc., Northbrook, IL 60062, United States
Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States
Clem McDonald Center for Biomedical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States
Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, United States
JMIR Publications, Toronto, ON 1100, Canada
Department of Internal Medicine (Adjunct), Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 6702, United States
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, United States
Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
Google, LLC, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States
Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, United States
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, United States
College of Engineering, Center for Biomedical Informatics & Biostatistics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States
Research Institute, Endeavor Health, Evanston, IL 60201, United States
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, United States
Center for Biomedical Informatics, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA 90059, United States
Intuitive Surgical (Digital), Sunnyvale, CA 94086, United States
Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, United States
Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37204, United States
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
Milken Institute School of Public Health, George, Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, United States
Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, United States
Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada
Center for Applied Transgender Studies, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
Center for Applied Transgender Studies, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Institute for Health Equity Research, New York, NY 10029, United States
Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63130, United States
American Medical Informatics Association, Washington, DC 20814, United States
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, United States
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY 11203, United States
University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA 92121, United States
Department of Surgery, Center for Learning Health Systems, University of Minnesota, MN 55455, United States
School of Nursing and Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
College of Nursing, University of Florida, Orlanda, FL 32862, United States
Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, United States

Corresponding author: Oliver Bear Don’t Walk IV, PhD, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, 850 Republican Street, Building C, UW Box SLU-BIME 358047, Seattle, WA 98109-4714, United States ([email protected])

O. Bear Don’t Walk IV, S. Haldar, D.(H.) Wei are considered co-first authors of this work.

Received February 13, 2025

Accepted May 27, 2025

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JAMIA - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 32(8):p 1380-1387, August 2025. | DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaf096