About the International Health Journal

The International Health Journal is an editorial review desk for global health in low-resource settings. We exist because the systems that deliver care — the cold chain, the diagnostic, the water point, the outbreak response — fail at their joints, and field teams choosing how to fix those joints deserve an honest, independent review of the equipment and methods on offer.

We are an educational publication. Nothing we publish is medical advice, and nothing we conclude is for sale. Our remit is the practical reality of delivering health where delivery is hardest, and our discipline is to read the published evidence first, then test it against the field.

The journal is organised into four standing desks and governed by a documented set of editorial standards, a peer-review policy and a clear governance structure. This section explains how all of that fits together.

Independence is only credible if it is enforceable. The journal documents its commitments and submits to them publicly. Our editorial standards define what every piece must satisfy; our peer-review policy describes how a second reader challenges each review; our publication ethics set out conflict-of-interest rules; and our corrections and retractions policy governs what happens when we get something wrong.

We also publish our open-access policy and contributor guidelines so that readers and contributors alike know exactly how the journal operates. None of this is decoration — it is the machinery that makes the journal trustworthy. If something here does not match your experience of our work, we want to hear about it via the editorial desk.