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Call for Papers - Epidemiology of viral hepatitis

Guest Editors:

Mawuena Binka: School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Canada
Antony P. Black: Institut Pasteur du Laos, Laos
Zahid Ahmad Butt: School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jack Wallace:  Burnet Institute, Australia

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 14 November 2023


BMC Public Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on the Epidemiology of viral hepatitis. Viral hepatitis is a major emerging public health threat which may be ranked similarly to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, while unfortunately not receiving the same attention or healthcare resources. Strategies outlined towards this achievement include providing everyone living with viral hepatitis with access to safe, affordable and effective care and treatment as well as reducing the incidence of and annual deaths from these infections. In order to achieve these targets, a change in public health response to viral hepatitis as well as increased attention is required.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Mawuena Binka: School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Mawuena Binka is a Research Scientist at the School of Population and Public Health at University of British Columbia, and is based at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver, Canada. Her research is focused on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, with particular emphasis on hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV, and SARS-CoV-2 infections. She is passionate about the use of health administrative data to address inequities in health service delivery and health outcomes, especially among marginalized populations.

Antony P. Black: Institut Pasteur du Laos, Laos

Dr. Antony Black is the head of the vaccine-preventable diseases research group at the Institut Pasteur du Laos in Vientiane. His group’s research focuses on vaccines and infectious diseases and there is a strong interdisciplinary approach, with integrated public health investigations. Viral hepatitis research is a major activity within the group, including the epidemiology of infections in vulnerable Lao populations.

 

Zahid Ahmad Butt: School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada

Dr. Zahid Butt is a physician epidemiologist with over 20 years of public health experience. He is an Assistant professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on HCV, HBV and HIV epidemiology and disease mapping and applies a ‘syndemic’ framework to examine relationships between infectious diseases (HIV, HBV, HCV, COVID-19), social determinants of health and substance use. He is an associate editor for BMC Public Health.
 

Jack Wallace:  Burnet Institute, Australia

Dr. Jack Wallace investigates viral hepatitis as an issue where the biomedical, social, economic and political intersect, and where he privileges the social, cultural and lived experience of people with the infection over that of clinical understandings. While his work is informed by his own experience of living with hepatitis C, he seeks to understand how the health system can better respond to the needs of people with viral hepatitis, particularly people with hepatitis B born in, and/or living in the Asia Pacific region. 
 


About the collection

BMC Public Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on the Epidemiology of viral hepatitis. 

Viral hepatitis is a major emerging public health threat which may be ranked similarly to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, while unfortunately not receiving the same attention or healthcare resources. Indeed, hepatitis is listed in SDG target goal 3.3 that specifies that the goal of eliminating viral hepatitis as a major public health threat by 2030. Strategies outlined towards this achievement include providing everyone living with viral hepatitis with access to safe, affordable and effective care and treatment as well as reducing the incidence of and annual deaths from these infections.

In order to achieve these targets, a change in public health response to viral hepatitis as well as increased attention is required. BMC Public Health has launched this collection calling for research on all aspects relating to the epidemiology of viral hepatitis including public health prevention programmes, the control of viral hepatitis, conducting surveillance and monitoring the effectiveness of prevention activities.


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There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select ["Epidemiology of viral hepatitis"] from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.