Giovanna studied medical biotechnology at the University of Bologna in Italy, where she also obtained her PhD in neurobiology, with a focus on cellular and molecular regenerative approaches to CNS diseases. In 2010, she moved to Berlin and worked on drug discovery and molecular characterization of CNS diseases and pain relief, first at the FMP Institute and then at the Charité University Hospital. In 2018, she transitioned to the industrial sector while following her interest in the development of innovative solutions for life sciences and health. In her most recent professional role, she contributed with enthusiasm to the development of scalable technologies for digital health and preventive medicine. She values and commits to a culture of data sharing and openly accessible scientific communication, especially when these have an impact on health services and healthcare. Giovanna joined BMC Series in late 2022.
Editorial board
Giovanna Del Vecchio PhD, Editor
Senior Editorial Board Members
Dr. Dietmar Ausserhofer
Dietmar is a nurse and nursing scientist at the Claudiana State University for Health Professions (Bolzano, Italy). His research focuses on patient safety and quality of care in acute and long-term care.
Professor Dina Balabanova
Dina is a Professor of Health Systems and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. Her expertise is in health systems governance, effective delivery models, and health systems strengthening, across a range of low- and middle-income countries. Between 2012-2018, Dina served as an elected Board member of Health Systems Global, the journal's affiliated society. Dina joined the Editorial Board of BMC Health Services Research in 2011.
Professor Michael Donnelly
Michael is Professor of Health Services Research in the Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), N. Ireland. He is Head of the Health Services and Global Health Research Group at QUB. His current academic interests revolve around applied, policy, and practice-relevant public health and wellbeing research designed to develop appropriate and effective service responses that will benefit significantly health and social care systems, patients, and service users locally and globally. He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Health Services Research in 2015.
Professor Koustuv Dalal
Koustuv has decades of experience in Health Economics and Systems Research, Prevention and Promotion, Public Health, Global Health, and Implementation Sciences. He has led more than 50 international research projects. He has many national, regional, and international assignments as a senior advisor/ committee member. He has developed 30 academic programs in several world-famous universities. He has students and workshops participants from 92 countries and Research collaborations in 51 universities and institutes. He has received many prestigious awards. Koustuv has evaluated more than 500 projects and programs.
Dr. Martin Dichter
Martin is a nurse and researcher at the Institute of Nursing Science, University Hospital of Cologne. Martin specializes in the development and evaluation of complex interventions, expanded nursing roles, evidence-based nursing, dementia specific assessments e.g. for quality of life and changed behaviour
Professor Donna Goodridge
Donna Goodridge, RN, Ph.D. is a Professor in the College of Medicine in the Division of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Her current research interests focus on improving outcomes for adults living with chronic illness, in particular, Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Post-COVID syndrome, using patient-oriented and mixed methods approaches.
Professor David Hotchkiss
David is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Health & Sustainable Development at Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Trained as a health economist, his current research focuses on the evaluation of health systems strengthening strategies in low- and middle-income countries including health care financing mechanisms; health workforce strategies; and routine health information systems. He has also led studies examining socioeconomic inequities in health outcomes and health care utilization; demand for health care; and child marriage and reproductive health.
Dr. David Mohr
David is a health services research investigator at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research at VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA. He is also a Research Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He holds a doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green State University, OH. He has a wide range of research interests including the health care workforce and well-being and safety, patient-centered care, patient safety, and outcomes of care, and the influence of organizational systems and teams on outcomes. He joined the editorial board of BMC Health Services Research in 2018.
Professor Milena Pavlova
Milena is a Professor of Health Economics and Equity at Maastricht University. Her research focuses on the financing of the health care sector, including health insurance, cost-sharing, out-of-pocket payments, willingness to pay, and discrete choice experiments. She is the chair of the ASPHER working group on Economic Evaluation in Healthcare in Europe, and also an active member of the Scientific Board of Red Cross in the Netherlands. Her publication list includes over 100 research papers. In 2016, she received the AXA Award for successful mid-career researcher. Milena joined the editorial board of BMC Health Services Research in 2013.
Dr. Gerald Sendlhofer
Gerald is head of the Quality and Risk Management Department at the University Hospital of Graz, an employee of the Research Unit for Safety and Sustainability in Healthcare, c / o Clinical Department for Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Univ. Clinic for Surgery at the Medical University of Graz. His scientific focus is on patient safety. He is a lecturer in the field of patient safety. He received the “European Quality Leader Award 2015” (European Organization for Quality - EOQ).
Dr. Magdalena Szaflarski
Back to topMagdalena Szaflarski, PhD, is a medical sociologist specializing in health and health care disparities and the social determinants of health. Dr. Szaflarski’s research has focused on immigrant health and health care, medicalization of cannabis, religion and HIV, social factors in epilepsy, and, recently, COVID-19 experiences and reactions.
Dr. Hannah Tappis
Hannah is a Senior Technical Advisor at Jhpiego - an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, and associate faculty at the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health where her work focuses on generating and using evidence to improve the quality of reproductive, maternal and child health services in conflict-affected settings. Hannah has a DrPH in International Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a BA in History from Princeton University. She has been a Senior Editorial Board Member for BMC Health Services Research and an Editorial Board Member for BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth since 2020.
Professor Brad Wright
Brad is Professor and Chair of Health Services Policy and Management in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. He holds a PhD in health policy and management from UNC-Chapel Hill, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, and previously served as faculty at the University of Iowa and UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on inequities in health care delivery, primary care, emergency medicine, and health politics and policy. In 2016, Dr. Wright received AUPHA's John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators.
Associate Editor
Giovanna Del Vecchio, PhD, Springer Nature, UK
Assistant Editors
Vidisha Chaurasia, Springer Nature, India
Abhilasha Dolle, Springer Nature, India
Suprit Joshi, Springer Nature, India
Prajkta Khandale, Springer Nature, India
Rashmita Pujari, Springer Nature, India
Rahul Tikke, Springer Nature, India
Apeksha Walke, Springer Nature, India
Manuscript Editors
Harshal Dhondge, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Akshay Ravindra Joshi, PhD, MPhil, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Rajasree K P, PhD, MSc, BSc, Springer Nature, India
Noohi Nasim, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Vaishnavi Nimbalkar, MSc, Springer Nature, India
Varsha Shetty, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Neha Tiwari, PhD, M.Tech, B.Tech, Springer Nature, India
Senior Editorial Board Members
Dietmar Ausserhofer, University of Basel, Switzerland
Dina Balabanova, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Koustuv Dalal, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Martin Dichter, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Germany
Michael Donnelly, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland
Donna Goodridge, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
David Hotchkiss, Tulane University, USA
David Mohr, VA Boston Healthcare System, USA
Milena Pavlova, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Gerald Sendlhofer, LKH Universitätsklinikum Graz, Austria
Magdalena Szaflarski, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Hannah Tappis, JHPIEGO, USA
Brad Wright, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, USA
Editorial Board Members
Zhaleh Abdi, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Auwal Abdullahi, Bayero University, Nigeria
Birgit Abelsen, Ph.D., UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Rana Abu-Farha, Applied Science Private University, Jordan
Hammoda Abu-Odah, Ph.D., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
Aaron Abuosi, University of Ghana, Ghana
Alma Adler, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA
Sayem Ahmed, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Khurshid Alam, Health Administration, Policy and Leadership Program, Murdoch Business School, Murdoch University, Australia
Mohammed Alam, Qatar University, Qatar
Eman Alefishat, Khalifa University, Utd.Arab.Emir.
Robert Kaba Alhassan, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
Sultan Alshahrani, College of Pharmacy, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
Rachel Ambagtsheer, Torrens University Australia, Australia
Hubert Amu, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
Chaisiri Angkurawaranon, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Nana Anokye, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Carl Antonio, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines
Anne Arber, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Hannah Arem, Medstar Health Research Institute, United States
Megan Armstrong, University College London, United Kingdom
Catherine Arsenault, The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, USA
Salla Atkins, Tampere University and Karolinska Institutet, Finland
Sunday Azagba, University of Utah, United States
Muhammad Majid Aziz, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan
Fredrik Bååthe, Ph.D., Institute for Studies of the Medical Profession, Norway
Chantal Backman, University of Ottawa, Canada
Tim Badgery-Parker, The University of Sydney, Australia
Zhongliang Bai, Ph.D., Anhui Medical University, China
Madhan Balasubramanian, University of Sydney, Australia
Julie Balen, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Francesco Barbabella, National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (INRCA), Italy
Heather Barry, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland
Steffen Bayer, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Colin Baynes, Ph.D., Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA
Masoud Behzadifar, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Hannah Beks, Master of Public Health, Deakin University, Australia
Demeke Mesfin Belay, Debre Tabor University, Ethiopia
David Beran, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Susanne Bernhardsson, Region Västra Götaland, Sweden
Stephanie Best, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Mia Bierbaum, Ph.D., University of South Australia, Australia
Peter Binyaruka, Ph.D., Ifakara Health Institute (IHI), Tanzania
Caroline Björck, Region Gavleborg, Sweden
Nicole Blay, Western Sydney University, Australia
Eva Blozik, Helsana Health Insurance, Switzerland
Kasey Boehmer, Mayo Clinic, USA
Rendelle Bolton, Ph.D., US Veterans Health Administration, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, USA
Valerio Brescia, Ph.D., Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Helen Brooks, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Aoife De Brun, University College Dublin, Ireland
Esther Buregyeya, Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda
André Bussières, McGill University, Australia
Guglielmo Campus, University of Bern, Switzerland
Paolo Candio, University of Trento, Italy
David Cantarero-Prieto, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Fabrizio Carinci, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
Rosemary Caron, University of New Hampshire, USA
Tracey Carr, Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Melinda Carrington, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia
Enrique Castro-Sanchez, Imperial College London, UK
Salma Chahed, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Nadia Charania, Ph.D., Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Kwun Chuen Gary Chan, University of Washington, United States
Thierry Chaussalet, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Jack Chen, University of New South Wales, Australia
Guanmin Chen, University of Calgary, Canada
Runsen Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Mingsheng Chen, Nanjing Medical University, China
Sumedha Chhatre, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Li-Yin Chien, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Dylan Collins, University of British Columbia, Canada
Louise Condon, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Donaldson Conserve, University of South Carolina, USA
José Crispim, NIPE, Escola de Economia e Gestão, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Terry Cronan, San Diego State University, United States
Gianfranco Damiani, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Diego Dantas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Umakant Dash, Ph.D., Institute of Rural Management Anand and Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Nigel Davies, Brunel University London, United Kingdom
Ganisher Davlyatov, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA
Lukejohn Day, University of California San Francisco, United States
Alessandro de Sire, University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia", Catanzaro, Italy
Chiara De Waure, University of Perugia, Italy
Saskia den Boon, Organisation mondiale de la Sante, Switzerland
Michelle Di Giacomo, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Piyameth Dilokthornsakul, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Huiru Dong, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Svetlana Doubova, Mexican Institute of Social Security, Mexico
Laura Downey, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia
Thomas Druetz, University of Montreal, Canada
Wei Du, Australian National University, Australia
Judith Dyson, Birmingham City University, UK
Bassey Ebenso, University Of Leeds, Institute Of Health Sciences, United Kingdom
Safa Elkefi, Columbia University, USA
Khalifa Elmusharaf, University of Limerick, Ireland
Martin Emmert, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Rene' English, MBCHB, MMED, FCPHM, Ph.D., Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Daniel Erku, Griffith University, Australia
Murat Ersel, Ege University School of Medicine, Turkey
Olapeju Esimai, MB CHB, FMCPH, FWACP, MSc, MD, Obafemi Awolowo University, lle-lfe, Nigeria
Elochukwu Ezenwankwo, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Nicola Faccilongo, Università di Foggia, Italy
Simone Fanelli, University of Parma, Italy
Youssef Farag, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Xing Lin Feng, Ph.D., Peking University School of Public Health, China
Ama Fenny, University of Ghana, Ghana
Rebecca Feo, Flinders University, Australia
Pietro Ferrara, University of Milan - Bicocca, Italy
Garumma Feyissa, City University of New York, USA
Edita Fino, University of Bologna, Italy
Florian Fischer, Kempten University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Mariann Fossum, University of Agder, Norway
Berkeley Franz, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, USA
Mio Fredriksson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Alberto Freitas, University of Porto, Portugal
Ari Friedman, MD, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, USA
Vincenza Frisardi, IRCCS-AOUBO, Italy
Ines Fronteira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Julia Frost, University of Exeter, UK
Yunwei Gai, Ph.D., Babson College, USA
Jakub Gajewski, Ph.D., RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences , Ireland
Kurubaran Ganasegeran, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Malaysia
Coralie Gandre, Ph.D., Institute for research and information in health economics, France
Pradeep Paul George, BSMS, MSc, Ph.D., Environmental Health Institute, National Environmental Agency, Singapore
Maria Michela Gianino, University of Torino, Italy
Teresa Gibson, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Clarissa Giebel, University of Liverpool, UK
Anna Glenngard, Lund University, Sweden
Davide Golinelli, Health Authority of Romagna, Italy
Ilana Graetz, Emory University, USA
Andrew Gray, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Alys Griffiths, University of Liverpool, UK
Fernand Guedou, Centre de Santé de Cotonu, Benin
Raphaëlle Ashley Guerbaai, Monash University, Australia
Dennis Häckl, Leipzig University, Germany
Muhammad Abdul Hadi, Qatar University, Qatar
Terje P. Hagen, University of Oslo, Norway
Reema Harrison, Macquarie University, Australia
Edris Hasanpoor, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Laetitia Hattingh, BPharm, MPharm, PhD, GC AppLaw, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Australia
Khezar Hayat, University of veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pakistan
Catherine Henshall, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Phillip Hider, University of Otago Christchurch, New Zealand
Reece Hinchcliff, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Saba Hinrichs-Krapels, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Oliver Hirsch, FOM University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Danielle Hitch, Western Health, Australia
Mbuzeleni Hlongwa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Laura Holdsworth, Stanford University, USA
Sara Holton, Deakin University, Australia
Young-Rock Hong, University of Florida, USA
Nicole Huang, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Rachael Hunter, University College London, United Kingdom
Anton Isaacs, Monash University, Australia
Md Shahidul Islam, University of New England, Australia
Rania Itani, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
Jagnoor Jagnoor, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia
Sabeena Jalal, University of British Columbia, Canada
Diana Jamal, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Shazia Jamshed, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia
Sou Hyun Jang, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Rick Jansen, North Dakota State University, United States
Alessandro Jatobá, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Achala Upendra Jayatilleke, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Rebecca Jessup, Ph.D., Northern Health, Australia
Tiago Jesus, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, USA
Ying Jiang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Desmond Jumbam, Operation Smile, Ghana
Mirgissa Kaba, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Albino Kalolo, MD, MSc, Ph.D., St Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania
Edris Kakemam, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Minah Kang, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Kandice Kapinos, Ph.D., MS, MS, UTSW/RAND Corporation, USA
Kenji Kato, Ph.D., National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Japan
Elissa Kennedy, MPH MBBS, Burnet Institute, Australia
Hanan Khalil, Latrobe University, Australia
Pratik Khanal, MPH, University of Bergen, Norway
Saval Khanal, University of East Anglia, UK
Sungwook Kim, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
Johannes Knitza, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Corinna Koebnick, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, USA
Jillian Kohler, University of Toronto, Canada
Grigorios Kotronoulas, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
John Kraemer, Georgetown University, United States
Maria Kristiansen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Demi Krystallidou, University of Surrey, UK
Sanjeewa Kularatna, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Saravana Kumar, University of South Australia, Australia
Ramesh Kumar, Health Services Academy, Pakistan
Desmond Kuupiel, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Michel Landry, Duke University, United States
Reda Lebcir, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Kenneth Lee, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Shaun Lee, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
Sumi Lee, Howon University, South Korea
Ann-Chatrin Linqvist Leonardsen, Østfold University College and University of Southeastern Norway, Norway
Ling Li, Macquarie University, Australia
Zhanming Liang, James Cook University, Australia
Rosemary Lim, University of Reading, UK
Ka Keat Lim, King's College London, UK
Yilu Lin, Ph.D., Tulane University, USA
Zhenqiu Lin, Yale University, USA
Anne Karin Lindahl, Akershus University Hospital, Norway
Jue Liu, Peking University, China
Harvy Joy Liwanag, University of Bern, Switzerland
Adrian Loerbroks, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Julia Lohmann, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Janet Long, Macquarie University, Australia
Kathryn Lord, University of Bradford, UK
Valentina Lorenzoni, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Gemma Louch, NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, UK
Lian Leng Low, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Huabin Luo, East Carolina University, USA
Błażej Łyszczarz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
Xiya Ma, University of Montreal, Canada
Sikhumbuzo Mabunda, University of New South Wales, Australia
Yodi Mahendradhata, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Asos Mahmood, MBChB, MPH, Ph.D., The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
Ian Maidment, Aston University, United Kingdom
Ashar Malik, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Wenhui Mao, Duke Global Health Institute, USA
Roula Markoulakis, Ph.D., Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada
Pål E. Martinussen, Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Cristian Meghea, Michigan State University, USA
Gholamhossein Mehralian, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Rittal Mehta, Childrens National Hospital, USA
Eline Meijer, Ph.D., Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Line Melby, Ph.D., Sintef, Norway
Eugene Merzon, MD, Lehumit Health Services, and Ariel University, Israel
Long Chiau Ming, Universiti of Bruni Darussalam, Brunei
Jose Mira, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
Malene Missel, Ph.D., Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Sandip Mitra, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, UK
Roberta Guglielmetti Mugion, University Roma Tre, Italy
Subhadip Mukhopadhyay, NYU Langone Health, Grossman School of Medicine, Perlmutter Cancer Center, USA
Irene Mukui, MBCHB, MPH, University of Washington, USA
Anna Maria Murante, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, Italy
Liubove Murauskiene, Vilniaus Universitetas, Lithuania
David Musoke, Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda
Ling Na, University of Toledo, USA
Satish Chandrasekhar Nair, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Medicine Tawam Hospital, UAE
Thomas Nathaniel, University of South Carolina, USA
David-Dan Nguyen, McGill University, Canada
Anna Nieboer, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands
Theoneste Nkurunziza, MPH, MSc, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Bertha Ochieng, Ph.D., De Montfort University, UK
Róisín O'Donovan, RCSI, Ireland
Megan O'Grady, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA
Joseph Okebe, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Sunny C Okoroafor, World Health Organization, Uganda
Bibilola Oladeji, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Mojisola Oluwasanu, Ph.D., University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Kizito Omona, Uganda Martyrs University, Uganda
Mei-Sing Ong, Harvard Medical School, United States
Pierre Ongolo-Zogo, Centre for Development of Best Practices in Health, Cameroon
Katrina Ortblad, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA
Songthip Ounpraseuth, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, United States
Zada Pajalic, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Lia Palileo-Villanueva, MD, MSc, UP College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines
Feng Pan, University of Tasmania, Australia
Abdullah Pandor, University of Sheffield, UK
Yannis Pappas, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Carole Parsons, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Kalyan Pasupathy, University of Illinois, USA
Holger Pfaff, Universitat zu Koln, Germany
Mershen Pillay, D.Ed, Massey University, New Zealand
Luiz Felipe Pinto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vivek Podder, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation for Diabetes Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders (BIRDEM), Bangladesh
Constance Dimity Pond, University of Newcastle, Australia
Krit Pongpirul, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Ari Probandari, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia
Jack Pun, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Samira Rahimi, McGill University, Canada
Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, University of Central Missouri, USA
Pavani Rangachari, University of New Haven, USA
Hamid Ravaghi, World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, Egypt
Adam Raymakers, BC Cancer & Simon Fraser University, Canada
Maria Theresa Redaniel, Ph.D., NIHR ARC West, University of Bristol, UK
Sandra Reeder, Monash University, Australia
Taeho Greg Rhee, Yale University, United States
Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, University of California San Francisco, USA
Erin Rogers, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA
Morwenna Rogers, University of Exeter, UK
Federico Rotondo, Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Italy
Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda
Torleif Ruud, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
KM Saif-Ur-Rahman, icddr, b, Bangladesh
Behnam Sadeghirad, McMaster University, Canada
Binaya Sapkota, Sunway University, Malaysia
Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Bangladesh
Haribondhu Sarma, Ph.D., The Australian National University, Australia
Cara Sass, University of Leeds, UK
Michael Scanlon, MPH, MA, Ph.D., Indiana University, USA
Bernhard Schaller, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Francesco Schiavone, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Brett Scholz, The Australian National University, Australia
Joel Segel, Penn State University, USA
Chiara Seghieri, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Abdul-Aziz Seidu, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Sameera Senanayake, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Hyun-Ju Seo, Chungnam National University, South Korea
Raffaele Serra, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Edson Serván-Mori, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
Geoffrey Setswe, DrPH, The Aurum Institute, South Africa
Yixue Shao, Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Hamid Sharifi, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Vandad Sharifi, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Lisa Sharwood, University of Sydney, Australia
Chan Shen, Penn State University, United States
Lei Shi, Ph.D., Guangzhou Medical University, China
Rahul Shidhaye, Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, India
Nathan Shlobin, Northwestern University, USA
Sunil Shrestha, Nepal Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Nepal
Tan Ching Siang, KPJ Healthcare University College, Malaysia
João Pedro Silva, University of Porto, Portugal
Jonathan Sicsic, Université Paris Cité, France
Moslem Soofi, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Tayana Soukup, Ph.D., Imperial College London, UK
Azizeh Sowan, Ph.D., RN, MSN, MSDA, MBA, FAAN, The University of Texas Health at San Antonio, USA
Maria Lucia Specchia, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Mindaugas Stankunas, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania
Alessandro Stefanini, University of Pisa, Italy
Andrew Sturrock, University of Sunderland, UK
Dai Su, Capital Medical University, China
Anusuiya Subramaniam, University of Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Fatima Suleman, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Tomoyuki Takura, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Marzena Tambor, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Poland
Koku Tamirat, Monash University, Australia
Tara Tancred, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Henok Tegegn, University of New England, Australia
Luke Testa, Macquarie University, Australia
Khin Thet-Wai, Department of Medical Research, Myanmar
Caroline Thompson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Oliver Thomson, University College of Osteopathy, UK
Ghasem (Sam) Toloo, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Anete Trajman, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Yafang Tsai, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan
Apostolos Tsiachristas, University of Oxford, UK
Joanne Turnbull, University of Southampton, UK
Shahadat Uddin, The University of Sydney, Australia
Milena Vainieri, Sant'Anna Scuola Universiaria Superiore Pisa, Italy
Claudimar Veiga, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil
Sukumar Vellakkal, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Dominique Vervoort, John Hopkins University, USA
Ivo Vlaev, University of Warwick, UK
Thomas von Lengerke, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Jitka Vseteckova, The Open University, UK
Cécile Vuillermoz, Ph.D., National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), France
Dawn-Marie Walker, University of Southampton, UK
Xiaomin Wan, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China
Zhen Wang, Mayo Clinic, USA
Yuan Yuan Wang, De Montfort University, UK
Zhonghua Wang, Nanjing Medical University, China
George Wanje, MPH, University of Washington, USA
Jennifer Watts, MComm, PGDipHealthEc, Deakin University, Australia
Shiou Liang Wee, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
Siri Wiig, University of Stavanger, Norway
Louise Wiles, Ph.D., University of South Australia, Australia
Anne Wilkinson, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Amanda Wilson, Ph.D., University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Ho Ting Wong, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Eskinder Wolka Woticha, PhD, International Institute for Primary Health Care- Ethiopia and Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia
Yu Xiao, The Fourth People's Hospital of Chengdu, China
Hao Xue, Stanford University, USA
Sandhya Yadav, University of Florida, USA
Sandul Yasobant, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, India
Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Huso Yi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
David Youens, Ph.D., Curtin University, Australia
Charlotte Ytterberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Kazeem Yusuff, Qatar University, Qatar
Henry Zakumumpa, Makerere University, Uganda
Preeti Pushpalata Zanwar, Ph.D., MPH, MS, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Ehsan Zarei, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Qianzi Zhang, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Zhongliang Zhou, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Leah Zullig, Duke, USA
Yvonne Zurynski, Macquarie University, Australia
Statistical Reviewers
Finian Bannon, Queens University Belfast, UK
Editorial Advisors
James Phillips, Columbia University, USA
Fimka Tozija, Saints Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia
Øyvind A. Bjertnæs, Folkehelseinstituttet, Norway
Ding Yew Yoong, Geriatric Education and Research Institute, Singapore
Lennart Reifels, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Kasper Wyss, University of Basel, Switzerland
In Memoriam
Armando Arredondo, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
Margaret Kelaher, University of Melbourne, Australia
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