• Aims and Scope/About
• Peer-review process
• Subscriptions, Accessing Content, TOC alerts
• Archiving
• Ethics Policy
• Indexing

Aims and Scope/About

The Journal of Global Health Law offers a new forum for exploring the contours of the field. Global health law is fragmented without a coherent body of standards. It includes instruments adopted under the framework of the WHO and other relevant international organizations, and a range of hard and soft law standards recognised in other branches of international law - such as human rights law, international humanitarian law, international environmental law, and international economic law. 

Global health challenges are vast. Infectious, communicable diseases (CDs) have represented a major public health threat since the dawn of humanity. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, will be the leading cause of death in every region in the world by 2030.  Despite years of progress, politicians and courts reignite attacks on reproductive health rights. Environmental degradation and climate change increasingly adversely affect health and society at large. Migration, urbanization, and internal and international conflicts can all have health impacts across borders. Meanwhile, health and medicine are increasingly digitised, which brings opportunities and challenges in need of global solutions. 

As the first journal dedicated solely to global health law, we invite contributions with a global focus. Articles are welcomed from scholars from all over the world examining global health law, as well as, its interaction with other fields, such as domestic legal systems and other forms of governance, whether they be domestic, regional or global.

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Peer-review Process

All submissions are double-blind peer reviewed.
 

Archiving

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Ethics Policy

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Indexing

Indexing and Discoverability

Editors

• Brigit Toebes, Professor, Health Law in a Global Context and Scientific Director, Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Pedro Villarreal, Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs/Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany
• Stefania Negri, Associate Professor of International Law and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence  "New Visions of the European Union's Role in Global Health" (EU4GH), University of Salerno, Italy
• Katharina Ó Cathaoir, Associate Professor in Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Mark Eccleston Turner, Senior Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London, UK

Editorial Board

• Frederick M. Abbott, Florida State University, US
• Judith Bueno de Mesquita, University of Essex, UK
• Gian Luca Burci, Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
• Danwood Chirwa, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Stéphanie Dagron, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Mark Eccleston-Turner, King's College London, UK
• Lisa Forman, University of Toronto, Canada
• Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University, US
• Roojin Habibi, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Roger Magnusson, University of Sydney, Australia
• Benjamin Mason Meier, University of North Carolina, US
• Rebecca Katz, Georgetown University, US
• Jonathan Lieberman, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Irehhobhude O. Lyioha, University of Victoria, Canada
• Remigius Nwabueze, University of Southampton, UK
• Nithin Ramakrishnan, Senior Researcher at Third World Network, Kerala, India
• Sharifa Sekalala, University of Warwick, UK
• John Tobin, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Deisy Ventura, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Chenguang Wang, Tsinghua University, Chinan
• Alicia Ely Yamin, Harvard University, US

Editorial Assistants

• Donato Greco, University of Naples Federico II
• Carlotta Manz, University of Geneva
• Dominique Mollet, European Commission Joint Research Centre/University of Groningen
• Jacopo Natali, University of Milan
• Ilja Richard Pavone, National Research Council, Italy

Book Review Editors

• Yi Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
• Luciano Bottini Filho, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Submissions

The editors of JGHL welcome high-quality original scholarly contributions on any topic in global health law. JGHL publishes standard-length articles (8,000-10,000 words), comments and review essays (5,000-6,000 words), and book reviews (2,000-4,000 words).  Submissions will be subject to double-blind peer review. The Editors reserve the right to reject submissions without review.  Please submit here.

Style/Submissions Guide

Article manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with our house style guidelines available here.

Terms of Publication

You must complete the Contributor Information form when you submit your final draft.