Aims and Scope
International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and practice in travel medicine and global health. The journal provides an interdisciplinary platform for research addressing health risks associated with international travel, tourism, migration, population mobility, and travel-related environmental and social exposures, as well as strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and health promotion among mobile populations.
The journal welcomes original research, systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, clinical and epidemiological studies, methodological studies, policy analyses, and other high-quality scholarly contributions relevant to travel medicine and global health.
The scope includes, but is not limited to:
- Travel-related infectious diseases: epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance of infections acquired during travel, including vector-borne, food- and water-borne, respiratory, sexually transmitted, and zoonotic infections.
- Travel vaccinations and preventive medicine: pre-travel consultation, immunization, chemoprophylaxis, malaria prevention, travel health counseling, and other preventive interventions.
- Travel-associated noncommunicable diseases: cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic, neurological, dermatological, and other health conditions encountered or exacerbated during travel.
- Environmental and geographical health risks: heat and cold exposure, altitude illness, air pollution, extreme weather, natural hazards, radiation, marine and freshwater exposures, and other environmental risks encountered during travel.
- Tropical and travel medicine: tropical diseases, emerging and re-emerging infections, neglected tropical diseases, and health problems affecting travelers to tropical and subtropical regions.
- Migration and mobile populations: health needs of migrants, refugees, displaced populations, expatriates, international students, pilgrims, humanitarian workers, and other highly mobile populations.
- Occupational and special-population travel health: health risks among business travelers, healthcare workers, military personnel, aid workers, journalists, adventure travelers, and other occupational or recreational travelers.
- Travel-related gastrointestinal and food safety issues: travelers' diarrhea, food- and water-borne diseases, food safety, sanitation, and prevention of gastrointestinal illness.
- Travel-related mental and behavioral health: psychological health, travel-related stress, sleep and circadian disruption, jet lag, substance use, and other behavioral and psychosocial aspects of travel.
- Travel medicine in special populations: children, older adults, pregnant travelers, immunocompromised individuals, and people with chronic diseases or disabilities.
- Travel health and antimicrobial resistance: antimicrobial-resistant infections associated with international travel, antimicrobial stewardship, and strategies for preventing the global spread of resistance.
- Global health and population mobility: relationships between international travel, migration, globalization, health inequalities, disease transmission, and global health security.
- Outbreaks and emerging health threats: detection, investigation, surveillance, preparedness, and response to infectious disease outbreaks associated with travel and population movement.
- Pilgrimage and mass gatherings: health risks, preventive strategies, surveillance, emergency preparedness, and healthcare delivery during religious pilgrimages, sporting events, festivals, and other mass gatherings.
- Travel health systems and services: organization, quality, accessibility, and effectiveness of travel medicine clinics, pre-travel services, post-travel evaluation, and travel health education.
- Digital and innovative approaches: digital travel health, telemedicine, mobile health applications, artificial intelligence, predictive modeling, geospatial technologies, and other innovations in travel medicine and global health.
- Public health, policy, and health economics: international health regulations, travel-related health policies, border health measures, health communication, risk assessment, health economics, and strategies for strengthening global health security.
- One Health and planetary health: interactions among human mobility, animal health, environmental change, ecosystems, and infectious disease emergence and transmission.
The journal particularly encourages multidisciplinary and internationally collaborative research involving travel medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health, tropical medicine, environmental health, microbiology, clinical medicine, migration studies, health policy, and social sciences.
The journal aims to bridge clinical practice, epidemiological evidence, public health policy, and global health practice, contributing to safer travel, improved health outcomes among mobile populations, prevention of cross-border disease transmission, and stronger global health preparedness and resilience.
