The Journal of the Academy of Public Health covers all aspects of public health, including epidemiology, environmental health, occupational health, behavioral health, pharmacoepidemiology, community health, global health, disease surveillance, biostatistics, medical informatics, health services, health policy, health economics, medical ethics and public health education. Our publications are arranged into the below categories.

Research Articles are the core content of the journal. These present analyses of new data, new analyses of existing data, new methods, as well as evaluation and comparison of existing methods. Open peer-reviews are published together with the article and an author response.

Literature Syntheses evaluate a key public health question based on a systematic literature review. May include a meta-analysis. These are published together with commentaries and discussion by peer scientists.

History of Public Health articles elucidate the rich and fascinating history of public health, including lessons learned from the many historical public health successes as well as from mistakes and failures. Published together with open peer-reviews and an author rejoinder.

Perspectives are shorter pieces that discuss some important public health issues from a practical, policy, methodological, ethical, philosophical, historical, educational or societal perspective. These are not peer-reviewed.

External Article Reviews are in-depth peer-reviews by members of the Academy concerning one or two influential public health articles published in journals that do not have the same philosophy of open peer-review and scientific discourse. The authors of the original article are invited to respond.