The Editorial Board

Many journals publish a masthead of named board members. We have made a deliberate choice to describe our editorial board by function rather than by individual. We would rather be transparent about how review actually works here than present a list of names and affiliations we cannot fully stand behind.

What follows is therefore a description of the roles that govern review, the responsibilities attached to each, and the checks that keep them independent. This is the real structure that decides what reaches the page — and it is held to account by our governance and publication ethics.

The journal grows by drawing in people who actually work where health is hardest to deliver. We welcome field reporters, specialists and reviewing readers with direct experience of cold chain, diagnostics, outbreak response or WASH infrastructure in low-resource settings.

Contributors work under our contributor guidelines, which set out how drafts are submitted, how conflicts of interest are declared, and how authorship and review responsibilities are assigned. If you would like to contribute a field report, suggest a topic, or volunteer as a reviewing reader, write to the editorial desk. We read every approach, and we value field experience above formal credentials.