 | Editor-in-Chief: Masahiro Hashizume, Nagasaki University, Japan |  |
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Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to announce that Tropical Medicine and Health, the official journal of the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine (JSTM), is now available on BioMed Central’s publishing platform.
| Aims and Scope |
Tropical Medicine and Health is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research and reviews on all aspects of tropical medicine and global health. The journal welcomes clinical, epidemiological, laboratory and policy research.
| Key topics: |
 | Viral, bacterial and parasitic infectious diseases |
| Vectors |
| Poisonous and venomous organisms |
| Non-communicable diseases |
| Epidemiology and population health |
| Drug, vaccine and diagnostic tool development |
| Traveller’s health |
| Health systems, services and policy |
| Other health issues related to the tropics |
| Editor profiles |
| Editor-in-Chief: Masahiro Hashizume | |||
 | Masahiro Hashizume is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan. He received his academic degrees from the Nippon Medical School (MD, 1996), the university of Tokyo (MS, 1999) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MSc 2003, PhD 2007). He has been the founding chair of the Department of Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University since 2012. In 2014, he became a board member of the Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of Tropical Medicine and Health. | ||
| Editorial Advisor: Peter Piot | |||
| Peter Piot MD PhD is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Professor of Global Health. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008, and was an Associate Director of the Global Programme on AIDS at WHO. Under his leadership UNAIDS became the chief advocate for worldwide action against AIDS, also spearheading UN reform by bringing together 10 UN system organizations. |  | ||
View the Editorial Board page for more Editor profiles. You can also meet our Editors at the upcoming JSTM meeting in Japan.
| Submit to the journal |
Tropical Medicine and Health will fully launch in early 2016 and we are seeking new manuscripts to be considered for publication.
The Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine currently offers a discount on the article-processing charge to both Society members and non-members when they publish inTropical Medicine and Health. Visit the society’s website for more information.
Our submission guidelines can be found here, please do not hesitate to contact us for any editorial enquiries.
Kind regards,
Masahiro Hashizume
Editor-in-Chief, Tropical Medicine and Health
Editor-in-Chief, Tropical Medicine and Health
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