The COVID‐19 pandemic is transforming the lives of human populations around the world and stimulating a global research effort aimed at understanding and addressing this disease. Over the last few weeks, I have heard from many of our colleagues who are initiating research or commenting on the COVID‐19 pandemic. As human biologists, we are well positioned to address this biocultural health crisis, one that is laying bare and exacerbating long‐standing social and health inequalities, and differentially impacting the World's most vulnerable populations (Rubino et al., 2020; van Dorn, Coonie, & Sabin, 2020; Wang & Tang, 2020; Yancy, 2020). I want the American Journal of Human Biology (AJHB) to play a central role in publishing and promoting the contributions that our discipline is making to confronting this global health problem.

To that end, I have invited a group of prominent human biologists to offer “Commentaries” on different aspects of the pandemic including testing and diagnostics, modeling the spread of the virus, disparities in its impact, the fear and stigma associated with the disease, and how we can best disseminate our work to a broader audience. These papers will be published as a Special Section of the AJHB, currently scheduled for issue 5 of volume 32. Additionally, these contributions will become part of Wiley's freely accessible COVID‐19 Resource Center. In association with the publication of this special section, our Social Media Editors, Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, are planning a Sausage of Science podcast with the contributing authors. Together, I believe that these papers and the podcast can serve as an important resource, highlighting the distinctive methods and perspectives that human biologists draw upon to better understand this pandemic.

Moving forward, the AJHB will provide rapid review and publication of original research, reviews, and commentary on COVID‐19. I hope that the AJHB will bring the human biology community together in sharing our research and discussing future directions for collaboration and engagement. I look forward to working with all of you as we confront the challenges ahead, and I welcome your input and suggestions on how we can best support you.

COVID-19大流行正在改变世界各地人口的生活，并刺激了旨在了解和解决这种疾病的全球研究工作。在过去的几周中，我收到了许多正在开展研究或对COVID-19大流行发表评论的同事的声音。作为人类生物学家，我们已经做好了应对这一生物文化健康危机的准备，这一危机正暴露并加剧了长期存在的社会和健康不平等现象，并对世界上最脆弱的人群产生了不同的影响（Rubino等，2020； van Dorn，Coonie ，＆Sabin，2020 ; Wang＆Tang，2020 ; Yancy，2020）。我想要美国人类生物学杂志（AJHB）在发布和推广我们的学科为应对这一全球健康问题所做的贡献中起着核心作用。

为此，我邀请了一群杰出的人类生物学家就大流行的不同方面提供“评论”，包括测试和诊断，对病毒的传播进行建模，影响的差异，与疾病相关的恐惧和污名，以及我们如何最好地将我们的工作传播给更多的受众。这些论文将作为AJHB的特别版发布，目前计划在第32卷的第5期中进行。此外，这些论文将成为Wiley免费提供的COVID-19资源中心的一部分。与本节的出版相关，我们的社交媒体编辑Cara Ocobock和Chris Lynn正在计划《科学香肠》与主要作者进行播客。我相信，这些论文和播客在一起可以作为重要资源，突出了人类生物学家为更好地理解这种流行病而借鉴的独特方法和观点。

展望未来，AJHB将提供对COVID-19的原始研究，评论和评论的快速审阅和发布。我希望AJHB能够将人类生物学界聚集在一起，分享我们的研究成果并讨论合作与参与的未来方向。在我们面对未来的挑战时，我期待与大家一起工作，并欢迎您就如何最好地为您提供支持的意见和建议。