Aim and Scope

Aims

The Journal of Population Health Dynamics (JPHD) is an international, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of the evolving determinants, distribution, transitions, and dynamics of health across populations, communities, and ecosystems. The journal serves as a global platform for dissemination of high-quality research integrating epidemiology, population sciences, molecular sciences, public health, implementation research, health systems, environmental and planetary health, traditional and integrative medicine, and societal determinants of health and equity.

JPHD aims to foster interdisciplinary scholarship addressing contemporary and emerging population-health challenges through integrative approaches connecting biological, environmental, ecological, behavioural, technological, cultural, and social systems influencing human health outcomes.

The journal particularly encourages scientifically rigorous and translational research relevant to:

• Health equity and vulnerable populations
• Indigenous and tribal health
• Emerging and re-emerging diseases
• Precision and population health
• Implementation science
• Traditional and community health systems
• Population-health transitions in low- and middle-income settings

Scope

JPHD welcomes Original Research Articles, Systematic Reviews, Meta-Analyses, Perspectives, Short Communications, Policy Papers, Methods Articles, Commentaries, and Special Thematic Issues in areas including, but not limited to:

Epidemiology and Population Sciences:

• Infectious disease epidemiology
• Non-communicable disease epidemiology
• Molecular and genomic epidemiology
• Digital epidemiology and disease surveillance
• Spatial and environmental epidemiology
• Population-based cohort studies
• Epidemiological modelling and forecasting
• Disease control, elimination and prevention strategies
• Precision public health
• Population-level health transitions and demographic dynamics

Genomics, Translational and Precision Health:

• Population genomics
• Genomic medicine and implementation
• Pathogen evolution and genomic surveillance
• Host-pathogen interactions
• Biomarkers and diagnostics
• Translational and implementation research
• Artificial intelligence and data science in population health
• Precision medicine and public health integration

Public Health, Health Systems and Society:

• Community and global health
• Public-health interventions
• Health systems strengthening
• Primary healthcare and implementation science
• Maternal, child and reproductive health
• Public-health policy and governance
• Behavioural and communication sciences
• Health economics and population-level interventions

Equity, Indigenous and Vulnerable Populations:

• Health equity and social determinants
• Indigenous and tribal health
• Rural and marginalized populations
• Migrant and vulnerable communities
• Gender and health
• Participatory and community-based research
• Ethical dimensions of population and genomic health
• Societal dimensions of emerging diseases

Traditional, Integrative and Community Health Systems:

• Traditional medicine systems and practices
• Indigenous health knowledge and ethnomedicine
• Community-based healthcare practices
• Integrative medicine and public health
• Evidence-based traditional medicine research
• Traditional medicine epidemiology
• Medicinal plants and population health
• Translational validation of traditional therapies
• Traditional health systems in remote and underserved populations

One Health, Environment and Planetary Health:

• Human-animal-environment interactions
• Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
• Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases
• Climate change and health
• Ecosystem and environmental health
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Food, water and environmental security

Specifically, JPHD promotes interdisciplinary scholarship connecting evolution, epidemiology and equity to advance deeper understanding of the dynamic interactions shaping health across populations, environments, and societies.

The journal is committed to:

• scientific rigor
• ethical publishing
• translational relevance
• global inclusiveness
• and equitable dissemination of population-health knowledge worldwide