Collections and calls for papers

Attacks on healthcare

Attacks against healthcare in armed conflict, including violence, access constraints, and insecurity, represent a major threat to health. Gathering evidence about the attacks themselves has and continues to ...

  • Karl Blanchet
  • Richard Sullivan
Submission status
Open
Submission deadline
Ongoing
Articles available
Central African Republic: Documenting humanitarian needs in silent crises

Conflict and Health invites you to submit to our new collection on humanitarian needs in the Central African Republic. The Central African Republic is one of the poorest and most fragile countries and suffer...

  • Bayard Roberts
  • Les Roberts
  • Anna Kuehne
Submission status
Closed
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COVID-19 and humanitarian crises

COVID-19 poses major threats to populations affected by humanitarian crises and forced displacement due to over-crowding, intense social mixing, inadequate water and sanitation, high existing morbidity level...

  • Jonathan Polonsky
  • Bayard Roberts
Submission status
Closed
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Delivering health and nutrition interventions for women and children in conflict settings: country case studies from the BRANCH Consortium

Women and children are particularly vulnerable in armed conflict, affected by both the direct and indirect consequences of violence, destruction and displacement, with both immediate and long-term implicatio...

  • Lisa Thomas
  • Samer Jabbour
  • Michelle Gaffey
Submission status
Closed
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Elimination of infectious diseases of poverty as a key contribution to achieving the SDGs

This cross journal series aims to demonstrate the validity of communicable disease elimination as a key contributor to achieving Universal Health Coverage and the SDGs. It therefore welcomes articles that pr...

Submission status
Open
Submission deadline
Ongoing
Emergency Medical Teams in crisis-affected settings

Conflict and Health invites you to submit to our new collection on Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) in crisis-affected settings. The international response to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 spurred the developme...

  • Dr. Flavio Salio
  • Prof. Johan von Schreeb
Submission status
Open
Submission deadline
Ongoing
Articles available
Enhancing disease surveillance and response: community-based surveillance among crisis-affected populations

Conflict and Health invites you to submit to our new collection on community-based surveillance (CBS) among crisis-affected populations. Since the 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, CBS h...

  • Jonathan Polonsky
  • Anna Kuehne
Submission status
Closed
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Epidemic detection, monitoring, and response during humanitarian crises

Amidst the many recent advances in data systems and tools to support the responses to health emergencies, there remain many challenges to collecting, analysing, interpreting and rapidly visualizing public he...

  • Jonathan Polonsky
  • Olivier le Polain
Submission status
Open
Submission deadline
Ongoing
How can research support the localisation of humanitarian aid?

Conflict and Health invites you to submit to our new collection on the localisation of humanitarian aid. During the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, international humanitarian organisations and fu...

  • N/A
Submission status
Closed
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Human migration, conflict and infectious diseases

Armed conflict poses a major threat to societal wellbeing. Overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions, disruption of, and reduced access to, medical and public health services, exposure of affected populations t...

  • N/A
Submission status
Closed
Articles available
This is a cross journal collection
Lessons from the field: Confronting the challenges of health research in humanitarian crises

Humanitarian crises, inclusive of armed conflict, forced displacement, natural disasters, and major disease outbreaks, affect hundreds of millions of lives around the world and take a staggering toll on huma...

  • N/A
Submission status
Closed
Articles available
This is a cross journal collection
Social Determinants of Mental Health

Conflict and Health invites you to submit to our new Collection on the social determinants of mental health in populations affected by armed conflict, humanitarian crises, and forced migration. Mental health...

  • Daniela Fuhr
  • Felicity L. Brown
  • Phiona Naserian Koyiet
Submission status
Open
Submission deadline
Ongoing
Substance use and related harm in conflict-driven displaced populations

Harm Reduction Journal and Conflict and Health invite you to submit to our cross-journal thematic series, “Substance use and related harm in conflict-driven displaced populations.” Substance use, particularl...

Submission status
Closed
Articles available
This is a cross journal collection