BMC Public Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on the epidemiology of disease and the understanding of all aspects of public health. The journal has a special focus on the social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational correlates of health and disease, and the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on the community. BMC Public Health does not publish clinical research: this should be submitted to the relevant BMC Series medical journal.

BMC Public Health welcomes manuscripts in the following broad areas of research:

Biostatistics and methods including studies looking at statistical models and methods and their application to problems of human health and disease.

Chronic disease epidemiology including studies on the epidemiology of chronic diseases and the use of public health interventions for their control.

Dental public health including studies on the prevention and control of oral disease and the promotion of oral health through organized community efforts.

Digital health including studies that address digital (e-health) interventions and their applications in public health. We welcome research which seeks to improve public health through the application of novel technology at the personal, community and global levels.

Disaster and emergency preparedness and response including studies examining measures taken to prepare for and reduce the effects of disasters. We welcome research on the organization and management of the resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies (preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery).

Education and training in public health including studies on the education and training of public health professionals as well as research looking at teaching volunteers and the community the skills they need to function effectively in contributing to public health efforts.  

Environmental health including studies on the environmental correlates of health and disease.

Global health and human rights including studies looking at the health of populations in a global context which transcends the perspectives and concerns of individual nations. We welcome articles on the influences of human rights violations on health in developing and transitional countries, as well as all issues relating to the impact of health policies, programs and practices on human rights.

Health behavior and health promotion including studies examining lifestyle choices and health behaviors, from drug, alcohol and cigarette consumption, to perceptions of safe sexual behavior and vaccine uptake, seeking to enable all communities to increase control over their health, and empower them to maintain, attain, or regain good health and prevent disease.

Health communication including studies examining the use of communication strategies to inform and influence decisions and actions to improve health; this includes the practice of communicating promotional health information, such as in public health campaigns and public health education.

Health economics and outcomes research including studies applying methods in economic evaluation and outcomes research to promote efficient and equitable allocation of healthcare resources in public health.

Health policies, systems and management including studies looking at the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on communities in high- and low and middle-income countries.

Infectious disease epidemiology including studies on the epidemiology of infectious diseases and the use of public health interventions for their control.

Injury and violence prevention including studies which address the social and behavioral influences on unintentional injuries, such as falls, drowning and motor vehicle crashes and violence such as bullying and child maltreatment. 

Maternal and child health including studies on all aspects of maternal public health, also going beyond pregnancy and childbirth. We welcome research in the field of child and adolescent public health that seek to help improve the complete health of people in the age range of infants to young adults.

Mental health including research that that will transform our collective understanding of this area, from the individual to the community level, and across all sectors. This includes studies that employ an epidemiological approach to examine stress, anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide. We encourage submissions that address growing areas of concern, from technology and social media and its impacts on bullying and self-image, to issues of loneliness and isolation.

Nutritional health and epidemiology including studies examining dietary or nutritional factors in relation to disease occurrence in populations. We welcome research on the development of interventions to achieve and maintain healthful eating patterns among populations.

Occupational health including occupational safety and studies on the occupational correlates of health and disease.

Physical activity and health including studies examining the relationship between physical activity and health. We welcome research examining how behavioral, community, and environmental interventions may affect physical activity on a population level.

Public health informatics including studies on the use of information technology in enabling effective monitoring and surveillance, supporting improved decision-making, and improving population health.

Social determinants of health including research related to the social determinants of health, including, but not limited to, the influences and interactions of personal characteristics (sex, age, ethnicity, disability and hereditary factors), social and community networks (family and wider social circles), living and working conditions (work, housing, education), and general socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions (taxation, availability of work) on public health and well-being.

BMC Public Health does not make editorial decisions on the basis of the interest of a study or its likely impact. Studies must be scientifically valid; for research articles this includes a scientifically sound research question, the use of suitable methods and analysis, and following community-agreed standards relevant to the research field.

Research article
Technical advance article
Database article
Software article
Study protocol
Review

Editor
Natalie Pafitis
Assistant Editors
Megan Barling
Maxine Dillon
Kevin Zhu
Section Editors
Marc Adams, Arizona State University, USA
Noriko Cable, University College London, UK
Summer Hawkins, Boston College, USA
Jianguang Ji, Lund University, Sweden
Ariadne Kapetanaki, University of York, UK
Frances Kay-Lambkin, University of Newcastle, Australia
Zohra Lassi, University of Adelaide, Australia
Youcheng Liu, Wayne State University, USA
Tim Mackey, University of California San Diego, USA
Carol Maher, University of South Australia, Australia
Isabelle Niedhammer, INSERM, France
Mahfuzar Rahman, ICDDRB, Bangladesh
David Rehkopf, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Giovanni Rezza, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy
Richard Rosenkranz, Kansas State University, USA
David Stieb, Population Studies Division, Health Canada, Canada
Janice L Thompson, University of Birmingham, UK
Michelle Turner, University of Ottawa, Canada; CREAL, Spain
Dianne Stanton Ward, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Shankar Viswanathan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

Associate Editors
Biostatistics and methods
Dawit Getnet Ayele, John Hopkins University, USA
Stephanie Baggio, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Ram Bajpai, Keele University, United Kingdom
Jeannette Beasley, NYU School of Medicine, USA
Steven Bowe, Deakin University, Australia
Tzu-An Ann Chen, University of Houston, USA
Ka Chun Chong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hongying Dai, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Patrizio Pezzotti, Lazio Sanità - Agenzia di Sanità Pubblica, Italy 
Kurubaran Ganasegeran, Penang Medical College, Malaysia
Mehwish Hussain, Dow University of Health Sciences, Pakistan
Håkan Källmén, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Jagdish Khubchandani, Ball State University, USA
Kim Kiely, School of Psychology, University of NSW, Australia
Dohyeong Kim, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Ryung Kim, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Stephanie Kliethermes, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, USA
Peter Kolarčik, Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia
Kevin Konty, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, USA
Karen Lamb, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia
Leah Li, University College London, UK
Justin Manjourides, Northeastern University, USA
Zindoga Mukandavire, Coventry University, UK
Moses Ngari, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Programme, Kenya
Fredrik Norström, Umeå University, Sweden
Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, University College London, UK
Mariamma Philip, National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences, India
Jinma Ren, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, USA
Marc Saez, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Odile Sauzet, Bielefeld University, Germany
Saeid Shahraz, Heller School of Social Policy, USA
Manik Sharma, DAV University, India
Tinku Thomas, St John's Medical College, India
Fenicia Vescio, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy 
Tzai-Hung Wen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Chengdong Xu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Paola Zaninotto, University College London, UK
Chronic disease epidemiology
Shailesh Advani, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA
Charles Agyemang, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Aderonke Akinkugbe, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Tomi Akinyemiju, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Arsham Alamian, East Tennessee State University, USA
Javad Alizargar, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Christopher Ardern, Bethune College, Canada
Hisatomi Arima, The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Australia 
Amit Arora, Western Sydney University, Australia
Silvina Arrossi, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad, Argentina
Kate Bartlem, University of Newcastle, Australia
Estifanos Baye, Harvard Medical School, USA
Henrik Boggild, Aalborg University, Denmark 
Arnaud Bourdin, University Hospital of Montpellier, France
Terry Boyle, University of South Australia, Australia
Sinead Brophy, Swansea University, UK
Genny Carrillo, Texas A&M School of Public Health, USA
Luca Cegolon, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Scientific Directorate, Trieste, Italy
Fiona Charlson, University of Queensland, Australia
Suzanne Cosh, University of New England, Australia
Thiago De Souza Veiga Jardim, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil 
Kathleen Decker, University of Manitoba, Canada
Lara Dugas, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Jennifer Emond, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, USA
Josie Evans, University of Stirling, UK
Kaniz Fatema, Centre for Health Equity Training, Research & Evaluation, Australia
Ugo Fedeli, SER-Epidemiological Department, Italy 
Steve Frost, Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Research, Australia
Bishwajit Ghose, University of Ottawa, Canada
Anita Goh, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Leonor Guariguata, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados
Bhawna Gupta, Griffith University, Australia
Hassan Haghparast Bidgoli, University College London, UK
Kevin Henry, Temple University, USA
Janie Houle, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Christina Howitt, The George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, Barbados
Gang Hu, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, USA
Md Rafiqul Islam, Goulburn Valley Health, Australia
Nadia Islam, NYU School of Medicine, USA
Chandra Jackson, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA
Seow Wei Jie, National University of Singapore, Signapore
Grace Joshy, Australian National University, Australia
Andrius Kavaliunas, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Hossein Khosravi, Boroujeni Isfahan University of Medical sciences, Australia 
Malcolm Koo, Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Viviane Kovess, EHESP, France 
Yu Heng Kwan, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Ratilal Lalloo, Griffith University, Australia
Michael Laxy, Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management - Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Yo Han Lee, Konyang University, South Korea
Yan Li, Cleveland Clinic, USA
Yung-Po Liaw, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan
Gang Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Hao Liu, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
Ruth Mabry, Oman 
Werner Maier, Helmholtz Munchen, Germany
Maria Maynard, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Mustafa Mümtaz Mazicioglu, Erciyes University, Turkey
Roberto Monastero, University of Palermo, Italy
Kameel Mungrue, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Keiko Murakami, Tohoku University, Japan
Giesje Nefs, Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands
Leila Nikniaz, Golgasht St. Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Sisse Njor, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Julia Pakpoor, University of Oxford, UK
Chen-Wei Pan, Medical College of Soochow Univeristy, China 
Feng Pan, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Australia
Anshul Saxena, Florida International University, USA
Kashif Shafique, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan 
David Shoham, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Fuschia M. Sirois, University of Sheffield, UK 
Matthew Soeberg, Asbestos Diseases Research Institute, Australia
Kaan Sözmen, Katip Celebi University, Turkey
Sherri Stewart, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA 
Saverio Stranges, Western University, Canada
Teresa Tamayo, German Diabetes Center, Germany
Jing Tian, University of Tasmania, Australia
JS Thakur, Ghent University, Belgium
Konstantinos Tsirigotis, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland 
Konstantinos Tziomalos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Greece
Mandana Vahabi, Ryerson University, Canada
Priya Vart, Radboudumc, Netherlands
Neomi Vin-Raviv, Colorado State University, USA
Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Makerere University, Uganda 
Peizhong Peter Wang, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada 
ShaoMing Wang, Peking Union Medical College, China
Youxin Wang, Capital Medical University, China
Yuan-Pang Wang, University of São Paulo, Brazil
James White, Cardiff University, UK
Feitong Wu, University of Tasmania, Australia
Tsu-Yin Wu, Eastern Michigan University, USA
Fei Xu, Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China
Hongwei Xu, University of Michigan, USA
Stella Yi, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Population Health, USA
Chin Kok Yong, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Avraham Zini, Hebrew University, Israel
Cai-Xia Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Melissa Zullo, Kent State University, USA   
Energy balance-related behaviors
Habiba Ali, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
Katherine Appleton, Bournemouth University, UK
Lauren Arundell, Deakin University, Australia
Lee Ashton, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Jorge Banda, Purdue University, USA
Jinan Banna, University of Hawaii, USA
Rebecca Beeken, University College London, UK
Britni Belcher, University of Southern California, USA
Silvia Bel-Serrat, University College Dublin, Ireland
Maciej Buchowski, Vanderbilt University, USA 
Ryan Donald Burns, University of Utah, USA
Cristina Cadenas-Sánchez, University of Cádiz, Spain
Zhen-Bo Cao, Shanghai University of Sport, China
Mei-Wei Chang, Ohio State University, USA
Yit Siew Chin, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Katrien De Cocker, Ghent University, Belgium
Helen Croker, University College London, UK
Jayna Dave, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Danae Dinkel, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Catherine Draper, University of Cape Town, South Africa 
Charlotte Edwardson, University of Leicester, UK
Katia E Ferrar, University of South Australia, Australia
Francesca Gallè, University of Naples "Parthenope, Italy 
Teresa Garvin, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, USA
Sanne Gerards, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Sjaan Gomersall, The University of Queensland, Australia
Luis Gracia-Marco, University of Exeter, UK 
Jessica Gubbels, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Nidhi Gupta, Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark
Deirdre Harrington, University of Leicester, UK
Gill ten Hoor, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Klazine van der Horst, Nestec, Nestle Research Center, Switzerland 
Wendy Yajun Huang, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Tracy Kolbe-Alexander, University of Queensland, Australia 
Jennifer Kuk, York University, Canada
Jouni Lahti, University of Helsinki, Finland
Amelia Lake, Durham University, UK 
Yung Liao, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Aristides Machado-Rodrigues, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Ralph Maddison, Deakin University, Australia
Jaclyn  Maher, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Adilson Marques, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Gregore Iven Mielke, The University of Queensland, Australia 
Jonathan JM Mond, Macquarie University, Australia 
Helen Moore, Durham University, UK
Jorge Mota, University of Porto, Portugal
Falk Muller-Riemenschneider, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Kwok Ng, University of Eastern Finland, Finland & University of Limerick, Ireland
Angela Odoms-Young, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Miranda Pallan, University of Birmingham, UK 
Toby G Pavey, University of Queensland, Australia 
Nasheeta Peer, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
Louisa Peralta, The University of Sydney, Australia
Rick Petosa, The Ohio State University, USA
Karin Proper, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands
Nalini Ranjit, University of Texas School of Public Health, USA
Kathryn Reilly, University of Newcastle, Australia
Rute Marina Roberto Santos, University of Porto and University of Wollongong, Portugal and Australia 
Shreela Sharma, University of Texas, USA
Ai Shibata, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Erik Sigmund, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Inacio Crochemore Mohnsam, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Sharon Simpson, University of Glasgow, UK
Paula Skidmore, University of Otago, New Zealand
Lee Smith, Anglia Ruskin University, UK  
Ingrid Steenhuis, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Marijn Stok, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Michalis Stylianou, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jakob Tarp, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Norway
Norman Temple, Athabasca University, Canada
Patricia Tucker, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Jesus Vioque, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain
Emily Mailey,  Kansas State University, USA

Environmental health
Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Medical School St-Antoine, France 
Fiona Barker, Monash University, Australia
Sandra Cortes Arancibia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Jason Corburn, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Aidan Cronin, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene expert, Zimbabwe
Payam Dadvand, Affiliation Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Spain
Mahamed Aqiel Dalvie, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Qihong Deng, Central South University, China
Hung Chak Ho, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Bing-Fang Hwang, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, College of Public Health, China Medical University, Taiwan
Tabassum Insaf, University at Albany, USA
Atif Kamal, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Pakistan
Brent D. Kerger, Cardno ChemRisk, USA 
Sari Kovats, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Om Kurmi, McMaster University, Canada
Aparna Lal, Australian National University, Australia
Kiyoung Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea 
Ming-Chieh Li, China Medical University College of Public Health, Taiwan
Shanshan Li, Monash University, Australia
Maureen Lichtveld, Tulane University, USA
Hualiang Lin, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Yuewei Liu, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Kristen Malecki, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, USA 
Varvara Mouchtouri, University of Thessaly, Greece
Prakash Mulay, Florida Department of Health, USA
Nisha Naicker, National Institute for Occupational Health, South Africa
Rajen Naidoo, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Maya Negev, University of Haifa, Israel  
Amy Padula, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Marinelle Payton, Jackson State University, USA
Sarva Mang Praveena, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Venkata Raghava Mohan, Christian Medical College, India
Andrea Ranzi, Regional Agency for Prevention, Environment and Energy, Italy
Abayomi Samuel Oyekale, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, North-West University, South Africa
Tamara Schikowski, IUF Dusseldorf, Germany
Rob Siebers, University of Otago, New Zealand 
Chang Sun Sim, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea
Sofia Sousa, FEUP, Portugal 
Christine Stauber, Georgia State University, USA
Shengzhi Sun, Brown University, USA
Erik Svendsen, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Linwei Tian, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, China 
Kuku Voyi, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Jennyfer Wolf, WHO, Germany
Frank Wong, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Caradee Wright, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
Qiang Zeng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Kai Zhang, The University of Texas, USA
Global health
Faisal Abbas, National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan
Sunday Adedini, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Oyelola Adegboye, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Australia
Bipin Adhikari, Mahidol University, Thailand
Olagoke Akintola, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Collins Stephen Ahorlu, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Ghana
Hirotsuga Aiga, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan
Anthony Idowu Ajayi, University of Fort Hare, South Africa
Raghib Ali, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Muktar Hassan Aliyu, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Joshua Amo-Adjei, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Carl Abelardo Antonio, College of Public Health, University of the Philippines, Philippines
Nirmal Aryal, Bournemouth University, UK
Richmond Aryeetey, University of Ghana School of Public Health, Ghana
Azizollah Arbabisarjou, Department of Nursing Management, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Giridhara Babu, Public Health Foundation of India, Indian Institute of Public Health, India
Tran Bach, Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam 
Mohan Bairwa, IIHMR University, India
Donewell Bangure, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Zimbabwe
Godfrey Biemba, National Health Research Authority, Zambia
Jean Joel Bigna, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Cameroon
Pablo Caballero-Pérez, University of Alicante, Spain
Baltica Cabieses, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile  
Tara Carney, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
Ferrán Catalá-López, National School of Public Health, ISCIII, Spain
Nuzhat Choudhury, Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, ICDDR, Bangladesh
Guéladio Cissé, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland
Abel Fekadu Dadi, University of Gondar/Flinders University, Ethiopia/Australia
Angela Dawson, Australian Centre for Public and Population and Health Research, Australia
Meghnath Dhimal, Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Nepal
David Teye Doku, University of Tampere, Finland
Predrag Duric, Queen Margaret University, UK
Ziad El-Khatib, Kaolinska Institutet, Sweden
Khalifa Elmusharaf, University of Limerick, Ireland
Syed Fatmi, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Rebecca Fielding-Miller, University of California, San Diego, USA
Florian Fischer, Bielefeld University, Germany
Ivan Florez, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
Paul Freeman, University of Washington, USA
Mussie Alemayehu Gebreselassie, Mekelle University, Ethiopia
Teshome Gebre, The Task Force for Global Health Inc., Ethiopia
Samson Gebremedhin Gebreselassie, Hawassa University, Ethiopia
Christine Marie George, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Hailay Gesesew, Flinders University, Australia
Madhu Gupta, The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India
Sally Guttmacher, New York University, USA
Zelalem Haile, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, USA
Nafisa Halim, Boston University, USA
Mohamed Azmi Ahmad Hassali, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Harvard Medical School, USA
Yves Henchoz, University of Lausanne Hospital Centre, Switzerland
Sheryl Hendriks, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Shela Hirani, University of Regina, Canada
Mowafa Househ, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Guoqing Hu, Central South University, China
Tanvir Huda, University of Sydney, Australia
Paul Hutchinson, Tulane University, USA
Usman Iqbal, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Leyla Ismayilova, The University of Chicago, USA
Shazia Jamshed, IIUM, Malaysia
Denny John, Campbell Collaboration, India
Rajendra Karkee, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal
Ernest Kenu, University of Ghana, Ghana
Alain Koffi, Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA 
Joel Lamounier, Universidade Federal de Sao Joao Del Rei, Brazil
Heidi Larson, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Martin Lipsky, Roseman University of Health Medicine, USA
Ryan Lindsay, Idaho State University, USA
Kawika Liu, University of Hawaii, USA 
Zheng Feei Ma, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Sphiwe Madiba, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa
Rashidul Alam Mahumud, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Yves Martin-Prevel, IRD (The French Research Institute for Sustainable Development), France
Mohd Masood,  La Trobe University, Australia  
Peter Memiah, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Lotus McDougal, University of Califronia San Diego, USA
Natalie Michels, Ghent University, Belgium
Katia Mohindra, Subaltern Health, Canada
Adamson Muula, University of Malawi, Malawi
LaRon Nelson, University of Rochester, USA
Felix Ogbo, Western Sydney University, Australia
Olanrewaju Oladimeji, University of Namibia, Namibia
Livia Elisa Ortensi, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Joseph Owoseni, Ekiti State University, Nigeria
Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Marcos Palone, São José do Rio Preto Medical School, Brazil
Jeemon Panniyammakal, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, India
Alisa Pedrana, Burnet Institute, Australia
Jamie Perin, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Shalina Pooransingh, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Farshad Pourmalek, University of British Columbia, Canada
Nousheen Pradhan, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Luis Prieto, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Mosiur Rahman, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Omar Rahman, Independent University, Bangladesh 
Geetha Ranmuthugala, University of New England, Australia
Rajesh Kumar Rai, Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance (SHDS), India 
Rohit Ramaswamy, University of North Carolina, USA
Alok Ranjan, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Muni Rubens, Miami Cancer Institute, USA
Simbarashe Rusakaniko, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Enid Schatz, University of Missouri, USA
Siddharudha Shivalli, Yenepoya University, India
Yandisa Sikweyiya, South African Medical Research Ethics Council, South Africa
Michael Spencer, University of Michigan, USA
Jerry Spiegel, University of British Columbia, Canada
Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, International Medical University, Malaysia
Thankam Sunil, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Amare Tariku, University of Gondar, Ethiopia
Gizachew Assefa Tessema, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Igor Toskin, World Health Organization, Switzerland
Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Kasturba Medical College, India
Lianne Urada, SDSU School of Social Work, USA
Olalekan Uthman, Warwick Medical School, UK
Susana Vaz Nery, Kirby Institute - University of New South Wales, Australia
Abram Wagner, University of Michigan, USA
Linda Waldman, University of Sussex, UK
Richard Wamai, Northeastern University, USA
Eric Wobudeya, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda
Hematram Yadav, MAHSA University, Malaysia
Bereket Yakob, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
Mohammad Yakoob, Jinnah Medical and Dental College, Pakistan
Martin Yakum, Medecins Sans Frontiers-OCBA, Nigeria
Joshua Yang, California State University, USA
Sanni Yaya, University of Ottawa, Canada
Naohiro Yonemoto, Kyoto University School of Public Health, Japan
Guanyang Zou, School of Economics and Management, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, China
Health behavior, health promotion and society
Ali Ahmadi, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Rita de Cássia Akutsu, University of Brasília, Brazil
Jolanta Aleksejuniene, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Marzieh Araban, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Monika Arora, Public Health Foundation of India, India
Joan Bentzen, Danish Mental Health Foundation , Denmark
Marina Bosque-Prous, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Katherine E Brown, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Christopher Bunn, University of Glasgow, UK
Massimo Caruso, University of Catania, Italy
Katrina Champion, The University of Sydney, Australia
Chun Chang, School of Public Health, Peking University, China
Kei Long Cheung, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Young Cho, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Zilber School of Public Health, USA
Penny A Cook, University of Salford, UK 
Won Kim Cook, Alcohol Research Group, USA
Zewditu Demissie, CDC/NCHHSTP, USA
Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Boston University School of Public Health, USA
Dean Alan Dudley, Macquarie University, Australia
Maged El-Setouhy, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia
Tara Elton-Marshall, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada
William Evans, The George Washington University, USA
Konstantinos Farsalinos, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
Filippos Filippidis, Imperial College London, UK
Joel Francis, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Jacqueline Gahagan, Dalhousie University, Canada
Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Israel
Lilian A Ghandour, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Andrew Gibbs, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
Emma Giles, Teesside University, UK
Lauretta Grau, Yale School of Public Health, USA
Mary Greaney, University of Rhode Island, USA
Jong-Long Guo, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Gregory Heath, University of Tennessee, USA
William Heerman, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Robert Heimer, Yale University School of Public Health, USA 
Shona Hilton, University of Glasgow, UK
Rebecca Hodder, The Univerity of Newcastle, Australia
Wendy Hovdestad, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada
Vivian Isaac, Flinders Rural Health South Australia, Australia
Heng Jiang, La Trobe University, Australia
Meliyanni Johar, National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction, Indonesia
Jessica Kaufman, La Trobe University, Australia
Jo Kesten, University of Bristol, UK
Peter Kremer, Deakin University, Australia
Matthew Kwan, McMaster University, Canada
Jeroen Lakerveld, VU University Medical Center, Netherlands
Patrick WC Lau, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Amy Leader, Jefferson University, USA
Albert Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jungeun Olivia Lee, University of Southern California, USA
Haochu Li, Shandong University, China
William Li, The University of Hong Kong, China
Jiying Ling, Michigan State University, USA
Maria Lohan, Queen's University Belfast, UK 
Lucia Maria Lotrean, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Jakob Manthey, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany 
Maryam Khazaee-Pool, Zanjan University of Medical Science, Iran
Jose Pulido Manzanero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Lisa McDaid, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, UK
Grant McGeechan, Teesside University, UK
Carly J Moores, Flinders University, Australia
Catherine Paquet, University of South Australia, Australia
Freda Patterson, University of Delaware, USA
Wei Peng, Michigan State University, USA
Stefano Petti, Sapienza University, Italy
Amutha Ramadas, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia 
Ferdinand Salonna, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Zila M Sanchez, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil 
Cha-Nam Shin, Arizona State University, USA
Roman Shrestha, University of Connecticut, USA
Samir Soneji, Dartmouth College, USA
Hamid Soori, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran 
Luis Sordo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Eldon Spackman, University of York, UK 
Tonje Holte Stea, University of Agder, Norway
Hala Tamim, York University, Canada
Barbara Tempalski, The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, USA
Emilio Villa-González, University of Granada, Spain
Man Ping Wang, School of Nursing, University of Hong Kong, China
Dean Whitehead, Flinders University, Australia
Elwin Wu, Columbria University School of Social Work, USA
Cui Yang, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Xueyan Yang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Faika Zanjani, UMD School of Public Health, USA
Fuhua Zhai, Fordham University School of Social Science, USA
Motao Zhu, Ohio State University, USA
Stephen Zwolinksy, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Health policies, systems and management in high-income countries 
Dorie Apollonio, University of California San Francisco, USA
Martin Amogre Ayanore, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
Jalal Arabloo, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Alessandra Buja, Università di padova, Italy 
Thomas Butt, University College London, UK
Vijay Kumar Chattu, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Kelsey Dancause, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
Karen Davison, University of Hawaii/Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
Pete Driezen, University of Waterloo, Canada
Inge MCM de Kok, Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands
Thabo Ishmael Lejone, SolidarMed, Lesotho
Tista Ghosh, Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, USA
Mark Hellowell, University of Edinburgh, UK
Donfouet Hermann, African Population Health Research Center, Kenya
Tessa Langley, University of Nottingham, UK
Lian Leng Low, Singapore General Hospital, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Colin MacDougall, Flinders University, Australia
Nicole Nathan, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Christina Mary Pollard, Curtin University, Australia
Beth Meyerson, University of Arizona, USA
John Mooney, University of Sunderland, UK
Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Saw Saw, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar
Gulzar Shah, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH), Georgia Southern University, USA
Kyriakos Souliotis, University of Peloponnese, Greece 
Mei Sun,  Fudan University, China
Rachel Sutherland, University of Newcastle, Australia 
Samuel Dominic Castiglione Towne, Texas A&M University, USA
Thach Tran, Monash University, Australia 
Rosa Urbanos-Garrido, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
Hugo van Woerden, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK
Matthew Weait, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 
Annabelle Wilson, Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, Flinders University, Australia

Health policies, systems and management in low and middle-income countries
Nicole De Wet, Wits University, South Africa
Hai Fang, Peking University, China  
Brynne Gilmore, Trinity Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Razak Gyasi, African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
Pamela Jagger, University of Michigan, USA
Sumit Kane, University of Melbourne, Australia
Roghayeh Khabiri, Tabriz Health Services Management Research, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Mishal Khan, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Juliet Nabyonga, WHO African Regional Office, Uganda
Jay Pan, Sichuan University, China
Matthew Romo, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Sivalal Sadasivan, Monash University, Malaysia
Sajid Soofi, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
John Tayu Lee, University of Melbourne, Australia
Marius-Ionut Ungureanu, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Sara van Belle, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium
Taryn Vian, Boston University School of Public Health, USA
Wu Zeng, Brandeis University, USA
Infectious disease epidemiology
Salma Afifi, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, EGYPT
Catherine Aicken, University College London, UK
Victor Alegana, University of Southampton, UK
Donne Kofi Ameme, University of Ghana School of Public Health, Ghana
Daniela Amicizia, The University of Genoa, Italy
Rashid Ansumana, Njala University, Sierra Leone
Tawatchai Apidechkul, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand
Bahram Armoon, Saveh University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Sudhir Babji, Christian Medical College, India 
Anna Bajer, University of Warsaw, Poland 
Aleksandra Barac, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Charles Beck, National Infection Service, Public Health England, UK
Katie Biello, Brown University, USA
David Blazes, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA
Sara Boccalini, University of Florence, Italy
Zahid Ahmad Butt, University of British Columbia, Canada
Enrique Castro-Sanchez, Imperial College London, UK
Pascalina Chanda-Kapata, ESCA Health Community, Tanzania
Daniel Chemtob, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Israel
Claudia Coipin, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands
Anne Cori, Imperial College London, UK
Pascal  Crepey, University of Rennes, France
Martin Dedicoat, University Hospitals Birmingham, UK
Antoon De Schryver, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Amare Deribew, Jimma University, Ethiopia
Gabriel O Dida, The Technical University of Kenya, Kenya
Ramesh Dhiman, ICMR - National Institute of Malaria Research, India
Peter Dodd, University of Sheffield, UK
Karine Dube, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, USA
Michael French, Research Triangle Institute, USA
Paula Frew, Emory University, USA
Thomas Fürst, Imperial College London, UK
Jonathan Golub, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
Charlotte Jackson, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, UK 
Juan Hoyos Miller, CiberESP, Spain
Chen I-Cheng Mark, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Atek Kagirita, Ministry of Health, Uganda
Manish Kakkar, Public Health Foundation of India, India
Surendra Karki, University of New South Wales, Australia
Faham Khamesipour, Shiraz University of Medical Science, Iran
Solomon Kibret, University of California Irvine, USA
Safari Kinung'Hi, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania  
Kayla Laserson, CDC, India 
Song Liang, The Ohio State University, USA 
Musawenkosi Mabaso, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, McGill University, Canada
Monica Malta, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada
Gitau Mburu, Lancaster University, UK
Joao Mesquita, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal
Elia John Mmbaga, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania
Pravi Moodley, National Health Laboratory Service and University of KwaZulu, South Africa
David Muscatello, New South Wales Department of Health, Australia 
Alfred Musekiwa, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Cho Naing, International Medical University, Malaysia
Dickson Shey Nsagha, University of Buea, Cameroon
Pekka Nuorti, University of Tampere, Finland
Fred Nuwaha, Makerere University, Uganda 
Isabel Oliver, University of Bristol, UK
Donatella Panatto, University of Genoa, Italy
Vincent Pang Junxiong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Christopher Pell, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Netherlands 
Men-Bao Qian, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China
Sheree Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Victoria Simms, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Paola Stefanelli, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy 
Sheena Sullivan, Peter Doherty Institute, Australia
Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Nigeria
Katy Town, Public Health England, UK
José Tuells, University of Alicante, Spain
Jose Ueleres Braga, National School of Public Health - FIOCRUZ, Brazil
Genevieve van Liere, Public Health Service South Limburg, Netherlands
Wilbert van Panhuis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Yasir Waheed, Foundation University, Pakistan
Khin Thet Wai, Department of Medical Research, Myanmar
Sarah Woodhall, South West Public Health Training Programme, UK
Cameron Wright, School of Public Health, Curtin University, Australia
Peiling Yap, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Singapore
Chen Zhang, University of Rochester, USA
Guoding Zhu, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, China
Huachun Zou, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Mental Health
Javier Alvarez-Galvez, University of Cadiz, Spain
Danilo Arnone, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Navjot Bhullar, University of New England, Australia
Sharyn Burns, Curtin University, Australia
Bianca Calabria, Australian National University, Australia
Pasquale Caponnetto, University of Catania, Italy
Angela Chia-Chen Chen, Arizona State University, USA
Ann DeSmet, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Rhiannon Evans, Cardiff University, UK
Garumma Tolu Feyissa, Jimma University, Ethiopia
Maritt Kirst, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Feng Kong, Shaanxi Normal University, China
Evelina Landstedt, Umeå University, Sweden
Janni Leung, The University of Queensland, Australia
Graham Moore, Cardiff University, UK
Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Chizimuzo Okoli, University of Kentucky, USA 
Taeho Greg Rhee, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA
Bosco Rowland, Deakin University, Australia 
Bridie Scott-Parker, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Mashhood Sheikh, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Norway
Emily Stockings, University of New South Wales, Australia
Catherine Striley, University of Florida, USA
Rae Thomas, Bond University, Australia
Alexander Voukelatos, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of NSW, Australia
Tingzhong Yang, Zhejiang University, China
Yaara Zisman-Ilani, Temple University, USA
Occupational health
Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Texas A&M University, USA
Els Clays, Ghent University, Belgium
Evangelia Demou, University of Glasgow, UK
Reuben Escorpizo, The University of Vermont, USA
Chris Jensen, National Advisory Unit on Occupational Rehabilitation, Norway
Tessa Keegel, La Trobe University, Australia
Keisuke Kuwahara, Teikyo University Graduate School of Public Health, Japan
Constanze Leineweber, Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Sweden
Subas Neupane, Tampere University, Finland
Anna Nyberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
Igor Portoghese, University of Cagliari, Italy
Peter Rabinowitz, Yale University School of Medicine, USA 
George Rachiotis, Athens University, Greece 
Charlotte Diana Nørregaard  Rasmussen, The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark
Erika Sabbath, Boston College, USA
Emile Tompa, Institute for Work & Health, Canada
Gabriela Topa, National Distance Education University (UNED), Spain
Antonio Valenti, Italian Workers Compensation Authority, Italy
Sara Viotti, University of Turin, Italy
JianLi Wang, University of Ottawa, Canada

Social determinants of health
Safa Abdalla, Stanford University, USA
Flavia Andrade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
M Niaz Asadullah, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Shervin Assari, University of Michigan, USA
Petri Böckerman, Jyväskylä University School, Finland
Cara Booker, University of Essex, UK
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Emily Callander, James Cook University, Australia
Gary Chan, The University of Queensland, Australia
Tyrone Cheng, Montclair State University, USA 
Emily Dauria, University of California San Francisco, USA
Fé Fernández Hernández, Faculty of Medical Science “10 de Octubre”, Cuba
Myriam Forster, California State University, USA
Rosanne Freak-Poli, Monash University Erasmus MC, Australia 
Yong Gan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Junling Gao, Fudan University, China
Diana Grigsby-Toussaint, University of Illinois, USA
Vin Gupta, Harvard University, USA
Anna Gyarmathy, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Afeez A Hazzan, University of New York, USA
Kerryn Husk, Plymouth University, UK
Jonathan Kingsley, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Caroline Kingori, Ohio University, USA
Rebecca Lacey, University College London, UK
Timo Lajunen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Karen Lorimer, Caledonian University, UK
Sin How Lim, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Ana Cristina Lindsay, University of Massachusetts, USA
Sze Yan Liu, Montclair State University, USA
Ana Martinez-Donate, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, USA
Paul McNamee, University of Aberdeen, UK 
Peng Nie, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Hynek Pikhart, University College London, UK
Elizabeth Reifsnider, Arizona State University, USA
Fulvio Ricceri, University of Turin, Italy
Bola Lukman Solanke, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
Santosh Kumar Tadakamadla, Griffith University, Australia
Katrien Vanthomme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Sherrie Wallington, George Washington University School of Nursing, USA
Peigang Wang, Wuhan University, China
Paul Ward, Flinders University, Australia
Chongyi Wei, Rutgers University, USA
Edwin Wouters, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Janet Yuen-Ha Wong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, Ryerson University, Canada
Jerf Yeung, City University of Hong Kong, China
Siyan Yi, KHANA Center for Population Health Research, Cambodia
Chengchao Zhou, Shandong University School of Public Health, China