%0 Journal Article
%T Getting Precise about Gender and Sex Measurement: A Primer for Epidemiologists.
%A Restar AJ
%A Lett E
%A Menezes NP
%A Molino AR
%A Poteat TC
%A Dean L
%A Glick JL
%A Baker KE
%A Cole SW
%J Am J Epidemiol
%V 0
%N 0
%D 2024 Jun 29
%M 38944757
%F 5.363
%R 10.1093/aje/kwae144
%X Accurately measuring gender and sex is crucial in public health and epidemiology. Iteratively reexamining how variables-including gender and sex-are conceptualized and operationalized is necessary to achieve impactful research. Reexamining gender and sex advances epidemiology toward its goals of health promotion and disease elimination. While we cannot reduce the complexities of sex and gender to simply an issue of measurement, striving to capture these concepts and experiences accurately must be an ongoing dialogue and practice-to the benefit of the field and population health. We assert that epidemiology must counteract misconceptions and accurately measure gender and sex in epidemiology. We aim to summarize existing critiques and guiding principles in measuring gender and sex that can be applied in practice.