Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has launched a new open access online journal on global health. BMJ Global Health reflects the overarching aspiration of the company—to create a healthier world in which everyone, wherever they live, has access to the information they need to protect their own health and that of the people for whom they are responsible.
BMJ Global Health will publish high quality peer reviewed content that is relevant to global, national, and regional policy makers, funders, researchers, and clinicians as well as frontline healthcare workers, managers, and patients.
Content will include original research— from study protocols through phase I trials to meta-analyses—small or specialist studies, reviews, editorials, analysis, correspondence and opinionated discussions on controversial topics.
Acceptance criteria will be based on ethical and methodological soundness rather than novelty, significance, or relevance to any particular group.
But the title particularly welcomes content from health researchers and practitioners in low and middle income countries, and on issues related to non-communicable disease and emerging mobile health technologies.
BMJ Global Health will operate a fast, rigorous, and transparent peer review process, with continuous publication online, to ensure timely, up-to-date research is available worldwide.
There will be formal links to other BMJ publications, such as BMJ Case Reports (http://casereports.bmj.com), to enable those involved in treatment to share their experiences, as well as access to other BMJ tools and services to support patient care and early career researchers (http://rtop.bmj.com/).
Editor in chief, Dr Seye Abimbola, of the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia, outlines the ethos of the publication in an editorial timed to coincide with the journal's launch.
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