Open access publisher BioMed Central will publish the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition. The journal was first published in 1983 and in transferring to the open access publisher it joins the growing number of global health journals within the portfolio.
BioMed Central and the journal's new Editor-in-Chief, Abdullah Baqui, hope to continue the distinguished history of the journal established by the public health research organisation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), which was associated with the journal from 2000 to 2015. The Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition joins BioMed Central with an impact factor of 1.39, and the aim is to increase this.
Abdullah Baqui is a professor of International Health and Director of the International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He will lead the journal in cooperation with an internationally renowned editorial board.
The journal will continue its history of a strong focus on maternal and child health. But with its revised scope, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition will also publish articles across the broad areas of health and nutrition, with a special focus on research of relevance to developing countries. Unlike its previous incarnation, the journal will operate with an article-processing charge. BioMed Central actively encourages submissions from authors that previously published from developing countries as their article-processing charges will be covered through an open access waiver fund that covers low and middle-income countries.
