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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.
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- Natalie Pafitis, BioMed Central
- Eva Szunyogova, BioMed Central
Manuscript Editor
- Marie-Victoire Cosson, BioMed Central
Section Editors
- Marc Adams, Arizona State University, USA
- Bianca Brijnath, National Ageing Research Institute, Australia
- Noriko Cable, University College London, UK
- Jianguang Ji, Lund University, Sweden
- Ariadne Kapetanaki, City University London, UK
- Frances Kay-Lambkin, University of Newcastle, 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
Assistant Editors
- Maxine Dillon, BioMed Central
- Rosie Brooks, BioMed Central
- Megan Barling, BioMed Central
Jianguang Ji, Section Editor
Associate Professor Jianguang Ji, Section Editor of the Chronic disease epidemiology section, is a Senior Research Fellow in Medical Epidemiology at Lund University. His research has a strong focus on the influence of genetic and environmental factors on chronic diseases, with a main focus on cancer incidence and mortality.
Noriko Cable, Section Editor
Dr. Noriko Cable, Section Editor of the Mental health section, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London. She works on social relationships, alcohol use and mental health from childhood to late adulthood as well as cross-national examinations of mental health.
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