Aims & Scope
Core Research Domains
Epidemiological Methods & Disease Surveillance
- Disease incidence and prevalence studies
- Outbreak investigation and response systems
- Surveillance methodology and data quality
- Spatial and temporal disease mapping
- Epidemic modeling and forecasting
- Syndromic surveillance systems
"Evaluating the effectiveness of integrated disease surveillance systems for detecting dengue outbreaks in Southeast Asian urban populations using spatio-temporal analysis."
Population Health & Risk Factors
- Social determinants of health outcomes
- Environmental health exposures and disease
- Behavioral risk factor surveillance
- Nutritional epidemiology at population level
- Occupational health and disease patterns
- Health inequities and disparities research
"Assessing the association between air pollution exposure and respiratory disease burden across urban and rural populations using multi-level modeling approaches."
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Transmission dynamics and modeling
- Vaccine effectiveness and coverage studies
- Antimicrobial resistance surveillance
- Neglected tropical disease burden
- Pandemic preparedness and response
- Communicable disease control strategies
"Mathematical modeling of tuberculosis transmission in high-burden settings to evaluate the population-level impact of contact tracing interventions."
Health Systems & Policy Research
- Health service delivery and access patterns
- Universal health coverage evaluation
- Health workforce distribution and capacity
- Health financing and economic evaluation
- Quality improvement at system level
- Health policy implementation science
"Evaluating the impact of national health insurance expansion on maternal mortality rates using interrupted time series analysis across 15 low-income countries."
Secondary Focus Areas
Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Population-level studies of chronic disease patterns, risk factors, screening programs, and prevention strategies. Focus on cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and respiratory conditions at the population level.
Maternal & Child Health Epidemiology
Population health outcomes for mothers and children, including mortality surveillance, birth outcomes, childhood disease burden, immunization coverage, and reproductive health indicators.
Global Health Metrics & Measurement
Disease burden estimation, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), health-adjusted life expectancy, and comparative risk assessment methodologies for population health measurement.
Digital Epidemiology & Health Informatics
Use of digital data sources for disease surveillance, mobile health (mHealth) for population monitoring, electronic health records for epidemiological research, and big data analytics in public health.
Environmental & Climate Health
Climate change impacts on disease patterns, water and sanitation-related health outcomes, vector-borne disease ecology, and environmental exposure assessment at population scale.
Health Equity & Social Epidemiology
Socioeconomic gradients in health, health disparities across populations, structural determinants of health inequities, and intersectional approaches to population health research.
Emerging Research Areas
Explicitly Out of Scope
We Do NOT Consider
Individual patient diagnoses, treatment outcomes, and clinical management fall outside our population health focus. Consider clinical specialty journals instead.
Laboratory techniques, diagnostic accuracy studies, and biomarker discovery without population health application are outside our scope. Consider diagnostic or laboratory medicine journals.
Cellular mechanisms, molecular pathways, and animal model studies without direct population health relevance should be submitted to basic science journals.
Commentaries, editorials, and perspectives lacking empirical evidence or systematic analysis are rarely considered. We prioritize data-driven research.
Article Types & Priorities
Expedited Review
Regular Review Timeline
Rarely Considered
Editorial Standards & Requirements
Reporting Guidelines
All submissions must adhere to appropriate reporting guidelines. Observational studies require STROBE compliance, systematic reviews must follow PRISMA, and modeling studies should use GATHER guidelines.
Data Transparency
Authors must provide access to underlying data, statistical code, and analytical methods. Data sharing statements are mandatory. Deidentified individual participant data should be deposited in recognized repositories when feasible.
Ethics & Approvals
Research involving human participants requires institutional review board (IRB) or ethics committee approval. Population-level studies using secondary data must document ethical oversight and data use agreements.
Preprint Policy
We welcome submissions previously posted on preprint servers (medRxiv, bioRxiv, arXiv). Authors must disclose preprint posting and update preprint records upon publication. Preprints do not affect consideration.
Statistical Rigor
Manuscripts must demonstrate appropriate statistical methods, including sample size justification, handling of missing data, adjustment for confounding, and sensitivity analyses. Consultation with biostatisticians is encouraged.
Conflict of Interest
All authors must disclose financial and non-financial competing interests. Funding sources must be explicitly stated. Industry-sponsored research undergoes additional editorial scrutiny for bias and transparency.
Publication Metrics
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If your research aligns with our epidemiological focus on population health, disease surveillance, and public health systems, we invite you to submit your manuscript for consideration.
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