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Diversity is increasingly taken into account in scientific research, funding schemes and publishing policies—as illustrated by the Frontiers statement on Diversity and Equity (1). Dimensions of diversity include (but are not limited to) gender identity, sexual orientation, migration background, ethnicity, socio-economic resources, age, physical capacity, religion, and/or region of residence. As hypothesized inminority stress theory and confirmed in empirical analyses, individuals categorized as members of a stigmatized minority population (e.g., LGBTQ people, foreign-born, refugees, and socio-economically deprived) experience a stressful social environment, and survival-related hypervigilance toward stressors (ranging from disregard to hate-motivated attacks) that are associated with higher rates of mental and physical health problems (2, 3). The Covid-19 pandemic is the latest example of how people experiencing marginalization, limited access to health and preventive services as well as precarious working and living conditions are at disproportionately higher risk of health-related and economic consequences (4).