"Leave No Brain Behind"

1. Over 3 billion individuals are affected by a neurological condition, which is the leading cause of illness and disability worldwide. However, burden of neurological disease is unevenly distributed, with certain groups and regions being more affected than others.

2. Neurological disorders disproportionately affect certain racial and ethnic communities (e.g., Black, Indigenous, and people of color), those in lower socioeconomic groups, individuals living in underserved geographies including rural areas and low-income countries, and other marginalized populations.

3. These populations are adversely impacted by social drivers of brain health including lack of access to care, minimal participation in pivotal neurological trials, and underrepresentation in neuroscience research careers.

4. Equity neuroscience, a public interest science, is a multi‐, inter‐, and trans‐disciplinary academic field devoted to understanding inequities in the manifestations of nervous system health, from particles to people, at multiple interacting levels, with a bidirectional local to global scope.

5. Equity Neuroscientists traverse all branches of science, stages of  research, forms of neurological disease, and types of professional discipline.

6. The Society for Equity Neuroscience (SEQUINS) founded in 2024 aims to enhance brain health around the world by improving equitable nervous system care and outcomes through research. 

7. SEQUINS has something for everyone, including those who don't work in brain research or care in a professional capacity, but are interested in helping to ensure brain health equity through moral support, networking, community engagement, policy making, and financial contributions.