Underrepresentation and lack of inclusion of Global South researchers have been key shortcomings in global health publications. This has contributed to epistemic injustice in global health and impacted evidence informed policymaking. PLOS Global Public Health (GPH)was launched in 2021 with the goal of charting a new path towards equity, diversity and inclusion in global health publications. The journal also invited independent assessments of its progress. This study analyses commissioned 136 front matter content (opinions, reviews, and essays) and a total of 878 authors published in PLOS GPH between October 2021 and December 2024. Using publicly available data from the journal website and online profiles, we examined authorship representation based on World Bank country income classification, gender, and Indigeneity. Additionally, we examined article content in terms of country focus and topics covered. We inferred gender by reviewing public profiles for gendered prefixes and pronouns and when unavailable by using genderize.io. We analyzed for Indigeneity by reviewing authors’ public profiles. Our results indicate that 609 of 878 (69%) of authors for the commissioned content were a
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