Left to right: Ravinder Mamtani, Lotfi Chouchan, Dietrich Büsselberg
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) and Qatar Foundation have teamed up with colleagues from around the world to launch a new, international, peer-reviewed journal aimed at students and professors of public health.
The Journal of Local and Global Health Perspectives will be an open-access resource publishing research on the effect and relationship between global health and local health issues and how they can affect each other.
It is the brainchild of WCMC-Q faculty members Dietrich Büsselberg and Ravinder Mamtani, who partnered with David Carpenter, University at Albany, New York, and Albert Lowenfels of the New York Medical College, to form the journal’s chief editorial panel. Besides Qatari and American practitioners, the rest of the editorial team includes members from Germany, Uganda and India.
“This is a first for the Middle East, as there exists no other journal in this region sharing research and perspectives on public health issues with medical practitioners around the world,” said Mamtani, professor of public Health and associate Dean for global and public health at WCMC-Q. He added that the journal will offer substantial input from research in the Middle East, offering new practical experience in public health not usually covered extensively.
“What practitioners and researchers learn about the treatment of diabetes here in the [Gulf Cooperation Council] has implications for treatment in the United States and vice versa. We all have valuable knowledge to share,” said Büsselberg, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at WCMC-Q.
The journal, which will offer original research, reviews, editorials and commentaries, will also offer Arabic translations of all abstracts.
Authors submitting manuscripts from low or lower-middle income countries will receive an automatic full waiver of the article processing charge (APC) of US$195.
The journal will focus mainly on clinical health, communicable and non-communicable diseases, environmental health, toxicology, nutrition, health care delivery, public health policy, women’s health, and public health education. It will also accept research on social, cultural and political aspects of health and disease.
It is currently accepting papers for review and interested authors can submit their manuscripts online here.