International Journal of Health Geographics
considers all aspects of of the application of geographic information systems and science in public health, healthcare, health services, and health resources.
Editor-in-Chief Maged Boulos launched his journal with BioMed Central in August 2002.
"International Journal of Health
Geographics is the first international, peer
reviewed journal fully dedicated to the application
of GIS and science in health and healthcare. BioMed
Central offered us its unparalleled, world-class
publishing facilities and expertise to start a
new journal in record time and get it indexed
in PubMed and fully archived in PubMed Central"
Maged N Kamel Boulos
University of Bath
A short biography
A former Specialist Dermatologist trained in Egypt,
Maged N Kamel Boulos is now a lecturer in Healthcare
Informatics at the School for Health, University
of Bath, UK. Before his current appointment, he
worked as a Research Assistant on an EU-funded
telemedicine project at City University, London.
As well as his medical degree and MSc in Dermatology,
he holds an MSc in "Medical Informatics"
from King's College, London, UK, and a PhD in
"Measurement and Information in Medicine"
from City University, London. He is well published
on the topics of the semantic web and geographic
information systems (GIS) in health and healthcare
and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access,
online-only journal, International Journal
of Health Geographics.
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