About this Special Issue
This special issue will explore and promote the integration of public health and disaster medicine, responding to the growing needs for active, vibrant, and novel collaboration between these fields in addressing the wicked challenges of modern global health threats. Recent pandemics, climate change fueled disasters, and armed conflicts have exposed critical gaps in the current training, resilience, and implementation frameworks of public health and disaster health.
The importance of close coordination between public health and disaster health entities became highly apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. For most jurisdictions, the lack of an integrated epidemic response model impaired the ability of both entities to respond in a timely and effective manner to mitigate the high rates of COVID-19 transmission and its subsequent morbidity and mortality. There is a need for transformational change to bring these disciplines closer together, restore trust in public health leadership, and facilitate a learning systems’ approach based on meaningful and sustained coordination across systems.
This is a joint special issue of PHR and IJPH. For PHR, we invite high quality Reviews (all types) and Policy Briefs. For IJPH we invite original articles. Possible topics of interest include:
• Shared learning, policy initiatives, process improvements. and other activities to integrate public health and medical care systems
• Staff leadership, training, safety and welfare
• The resilience of public health systems in disasters and emergencies
• Inequalities in emergency and disaster care
• Trust building in crisis responses
The call for papers is open from November 12 2024 until October 31 2025. IJPH and PHR publish Gold Open Access. Article processing charges (APCs) apply. Contributions from researchers and practitioners working in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries are encouraged. The IJPH’s GLOBEQUITY program offers a limited number of APC waivers for first authors from low- and middle-income countries.
IJPH and PHR double-blind peer-review and author guidelines apply. Submitted manuscripts must fully comply with journal rules for article type, length and format (please consult the information for authors on the IJPH or PHR website).
Please submit the complete manuscript. In case of acceptance after peer review, articles will be published in the online special issue approximately 3 weeks after acceptance.
Contact:
phr@swisstph.ch
or ijph@swisstph.ch
The importance of close coordination between public health and disaster health entities became highly apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. For most jurisdictions, the lack of an integrated epidemic response model impaired the ability of both entities to respond in a timely and effective manner to mitigate the high rates of COVID-19 transmission and its subsequent morbidity and mortality. There is a need for transformational change to bring these disciplines closer together, restore trust in public health leadership, and facilitate a learning systems’ approach based on meaningful and sustained coordination across systems.
This is a joint special issue of PHR and IJPH. For PHR, we invite high quality Reviews (all types) and Policy Briefs. For IJPH we invite original articles. Possible topics of interest include:
• Shared learning, policy initiatives, process improvements. and other activities to integrate public health and medical care systems
• Staff leadership, training, safety and welfare
• The resilience of public health systems in disasters and emergencies
• Inequalities in emergency and disaster care
• Trust building in crisis responses
The call for papers is open from November 12 2024 until October 31 2025. IJPH and PHR publish Gold Open Access. Article processing charges (APCs) apply. Contributions from researchers and practitioners working in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries are encouraged. The IJPH’s GLOBEQUITY program offers a limited number of APC waivers for first authors from low- and middle-income countries.
IJPH and PHR double-blind peer-review and author guidelines apply. Submitted manuscripts must fully comply with journal rules for article type, length and format (please consult the information for authors on the IJPH or PHR website).
Please submit the complete manuscript. In case of acceptance after peer review, articles will be published in the online special issue approximately 3 weeks after acceptance.
Contact:
phr@swisstph.ch
or ijph@swisstph.ch
Keywords: climate change fueled disasters, pandemics, disaster health, public health policy, emergency health
