QuarterlyPublished since 2021Open access, CC BY 4.0Double-blind peer review
International Epidemiology and Public Health (IEPH) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal for researchers, practitioners and policymakers who study and act on the health of populations. It publishes original research, systematic reviews, reviews, short communications and perspectives spanning infectious and non-communicable disease epidemiology, surveillance, health systems, prevention, and environmental and climate health. The journal gives particular weight to work from settings that are underrepresented in the literature and to studies whose findings can inform programs, policy and resource allocation.
All submissions undergo double-blind peer review by at least two independent reviewers with relevant methodological and subject expertise, and editors assess each manuscript for rigor, transparency and relevance to public health practice. Articles are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, allowing unrestricted reuse with attribution. IEPH follows a continuous publication model: accepted articles appear online as soon as they are ready and are compiled into issues, so findings reach readers without waiting for a complete issue.
IEPH aims to strengthen the evidence base for population health action by publishing rigorous, transparent and policy-relevant epidemiological research. The journal seeks studies that measure the burden and distribution of disease, identify modifiable risk factors, evaluate interventions and health system responses, and examine how social, economic and environmental conditions shape health outcomes. It particularly welcomes research conducted in partnership with affected communities and public health agencies, work from low- and middle-income countries, and methodological contributions that improve surveillance, causal inference or the use of routine data for decision-making.
Original Research
Tahmina Akter, Shafiqul Islam, Nusrat Jahan et al.
Dengue transmission in Bangladesh has intensified and spread beyond Dhaka city, yet hospital-based surveillance captures only a small fraction of infections. Population-based estimates of past infection in the rapidly growing peri-urban fringe are scarce. We conducted a community-based…
Perspective
Ananya Bhattacharya, Sujata Karki, Farhan Qureshi et al.
Extreme heat is now a recurrent public health emergency across South Asia, where long pre-monsoon heatwaves combine with high humidity, dense informal settlements and large outdoor workforces. Heat action plans and meteorological early warnings have expanded since the Ahmedabad plan of 2013, but…
Systematic Review
Chinedu Okeke, María José Restrepo, Arif Setiawan et al.
Hypertension control remains poor in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where physician shortages limit access to continuous care. Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly deployed to screen, educate, monitor and support people with hypertension, but the size and determinants of…
Quarterly issues under continuous publication: articles are added to the current issue as soon as they are ready.
Earlier volumes are listed in the article archive, which can be searched and filtered by issue, year and article type.
Editor-in-Chief
MBBS, MSc, PhD
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineLondon, United Kingdom
Adaeze Okafor-Bennett is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Trained in medicine at the University of Nigeria and in epidemiology in London, she has spent two decades designing population-based serosurveys and surveillance evaluations for arboviral and enteric infections in West Africa and South Asia. Her current work combines serological data with mobility and climate information to estimate transmission intensity. She has served on several editorial boards and became Editor-in-Chief of IEPH in 2024.
Associate Editor
MBBS, MPH, PhD
Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,bDhaka, Bangladesh
Associate Editor
PhD
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
Associate Editor
PhD
Department of Global Health, University of WashingtonSeattle, United States
Manuscripts should follow the reporting guideline for their study design, such as CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA or CARE.
IEPH follows the publishing policies that apply to every Scholix journal.