At BMC Global and Public Health, we are committed to advancing high quality infectious disease research and accelerating progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3): Good Health and Wellbeing. As one of BMC’s latest flagship, open access journals, we aim to provide a dynamic and trusted platform for rigorous science, informed debate, and meaningful global impact.
The journal’s mission to advance evidence that strengthens preparedness, informs policy, and improves public health practice is evident across our exciting publications exploring infectious disease topics. We are delighted to highlight some of the following examples, including an article that examines why excess mortality varied across 13 Western European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, showing that early nonpharmaceutical interventions, rapid vaccine rollout, and structural factors such as government trust and poverty levels played key roles in affecting mortality (Patterns and drivers of excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in 13 Western European countries).
In another study, researchers mapped two decades of shifting geographic and demographic patterns in leprosy across Pakistan, underscoring persistent disease burden and the need for targeted interventions (Tracing leprosy trends in Pakistan: a two-decade analysis of geographic and demographic shifts (2001–2023)).
Finally, we have also published research demonstrating that faster vaccination response times in low and middle-income countries could substantially lessen the impact of vaccine preventable disease outbreaks and improve public health outcomes (Estimating the impact of decreasing vaccination response times for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in low- and middle-income countries).
BMC Global and Public Health is always eager to work with researchers contributing to infectious disease priorities—including infectious disease modelling, for which we currently have a guest-edited Collection open for submissions (Infectious disease modeling: Impact on public health practices).
Ben holds a Master’s degree in Molecular Exercise Physiology and a PhD in Epidemiology and Healthcare from University College London. His PhD focused on the implementation of primary care blood tests for early cancer diagnosis. Ben previously worked as a clinical trial manager at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Ben joins BMC Global and Public Health to handle content in the fields of cancer, epidemiology, health sciences and technology, health equity, and more. He is based in the London office.
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