BMC Global and Public Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on food security, nutrition, and dietary trends. These are interconnected elements that profoundly impact global health and well-being. As the world grapples with rapid population growth, climate change, and economic disparities, the challenges surrounding food access, quality, and sustainability have intensified. This Collection aims to gather diverse research that examines these complex relationships, focusing on how dietary patterns, food availability, and nutritional status influence overall health outcomes. By exploring the multifaceted nature of food systems, this Collection seeks to showcase pathways to achieve improved food security and nutritional health worldwide.

The goal of this Collection is to build a comprehensive body of knowledge that informs policy and practice. We encourage submissions that investigate:

Impact of dietary patterns on health outcomes

Addressing food insecurity through policy

Role of ultra-processed foods in nutrition

Personalized nutrition and dietary therapy

Nutritional supplements for malnutrition

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 2: Zero Hunger and SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being.

We encourage work from local, regional, national, and global partnerships and collaboration among multidisciplinary scientists using multiple methodologies. We ask that authors be careful to use non-stigmatizing/preferred language in their manuscripts as outlined in relevant language guidelines for their respective fields.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal, including those submitted to collections and special issues, are assessed in line with our editorial policies and the journal’s peer-review process. Reviewers and editors are required to declare competing interests and can be excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists.

BMC Global and Public Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on the intersection of climate change and global and public health. This Collection seeks to unpack the profound impacts of climate change on population health, health equity, and health systems – and the solutions needed to protect health, reduce inequities, and enhance health system resilience.

We welcome papers covering diverse geographies and populations (especially marginalized groups), climate hazards and risks (both direct and indirect), diseases and health outcomes (including physical and mental health), and health system areas. Submitted papers may fall under the following sub-themes:

1. Climate and Health Pathways and Mechanisms

How climate change affects population health, health equity, and health systems – with a focus on the pathways and mechanisms, the wide range of upstream drivers (ex. ecosystem change) and downstream determinants (ex. social conditions) involved, and existing and emerging solutions to address them

2. Climate Justice and Health Equity

How climate change worsens existing health inequities and impacts marginalized communities – and the range of solutions – from the community to the policy level – required to achieve climate justice and health equity

3. Data for Climate and Health: Challenges and Innovations

What data gaps and challenges are faced in climate and health research and action – and the emerging methodological, technological, and governance innovations for overcoming them to inform policies and societal responses

4. Interventions for Climate Change and Health

What are the emerging interventions – ex. clinical, technological, community-based, institutional – for climate-health problems – at micro, meso, and macro levels – and evidence of effectiveness, lessons learned from their implementation, and prospects for sustainability and scale up

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being and SDG 13: Climate Action.

We encourage work from local, regional, national, and global partnerships and collaboration among multidisciplinary scientists using multiple methodologies. We ask that authors be careful to use non-stigmatizing/preferred language in their manuscripts as outlined in relevant language guidelines for their respective fields.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal, including those submitted to collections and special issues, are assessed in line with our editorial policies and the journal’s peer-review process. Reviewers and editors are required to declare competing interests and can be excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists.