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Global Public Health is an essential peer-reviewed journal that energetically engages with key public health issues that have come to the fore in the global environment — mounting inequalities between rich and poor; the globalization of trade; new patterns of travel and migration; epidemics of newly-emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases; the HIV/AIDS pandemic; the increase in chronic illnesses; escalating pressure on public health infrastructures around the world; and the growing range and scale of conflict situations, terrorist threats, environmental pressures, natural and human-made disasters.

Directed and supported by a leading international board of experts, the journal is broad-based and wide-ranging, including work that draws on the environmental health sciences; epidemiology; health policy and management; and the social sciences as applied to public health and medicine. It is characterized, and distinguished from other journals currently available in the field by its:

• global and multidisciplinary focus;
• emphasis on significant global health issues, including their social and cultural dimensions as appropriate;
• concern to understand resource-poor and resource-rich countries, and the public health challenges they face, as part of a single, interacting, global system.

Sections

The journal aims to become the lead environment internationally for the publication of papers adopting a global focus with respect to:

• Social patterning of health, including social exclusion, health disparities and inequalities [Associate Editor: Christina Zarowsky - International Development Research Centre, Canada]
• Environmental health sciences, including natural catastrophes, disasters, famine, pollution, ecotoxicology and environmental threats [Associate Editor: Paul Wilkinson - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK]
• Population and health, including sexual and reproductive health, mental health, indigenous health and the health of minorities [Associate Editor: Marcia Inhorn - University of Michigan, USA]
• Conflict and health, including torture, war, terrorism, civil disturbance and the health of displaced populations [Associate Editor: Ron Waldman - Columbia University, USA]
• International health policy and practice, including social justice, human rights and health; together with the role of international agencies, governments and civil society [Associate Editor: Sofia Gruskin - Harvard University, USA]
• Global health and development, including the health effects of major economic development trends and the impact of globalization on health outcomes [Associate Editor: Anthony Zwi - University of New South Wales, Australia]

Feedback from people in the field:

'I look forward eagerly to the arrival of GPH at my desk. The articles are always interesting, timely and offer useful perspectives on new topics. GPH has in a short time become a standard for the field.'
Sophia Gruskin (Harvard University, USA)

'The essential contribution of GPH is that it embeds health problems in the broad social, cultural, economic, and political contexts that generate them and sustain them... no other journal does as much to fulfil the promise of the public health approach.'
Anthony Marsella (President, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, USA)

'... It is a forum where cutting-edge issues are explored and responsive solutions generated.'
Susan Purdin (International Rescue Committee, USA)

'It is critical that the public health community can turn to such a journal for advancing our understanding of the challenges ahead.'
Kelley Lee (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)

'[The journal is] unique in its commitment to reporting cross-disciplinary research within the field of Public Health worldwide. Its focus on global health issues from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives enriches…its readerships grasp of the truly encompassing breadth of the global challenges we face in the field today and in the coming generations.'
Allan Rosenfield (Mailman School, Columbia University, USA)

Peer Review Integrity

All research articles in this journal, including those in special issues, special sections or supplements, have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two independent referees.

Disclaimer

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