International Journal of Health Geographics is fully dedicated to publishing novel, high quality and internationally significant manuscripts on all aspects of geospatial information systems and science applications in health and healthcare.

International Journal of Health Geographics covers a wide range of interdisciplinary geospatial topics in a health/healthcare context, from spatial data infrastructure and Web geospatial interoperability research, to research into real-time Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-enabled surveillance services, remote sensing applications, spatial epidemiology, spatio-temporal statistics, internet GIS and cyberspace mapping, participatory GIS and citizen sensing, geospatial big data, healthy smart cities and regions, and geospatial Internet of Things and blockchain. The journal is thus of interest to audiences from many different fields.

Health geographics improves our understanding of the important relationships between people, location (and its characteristics: for example environmental or socio-economic), time, and health; it therefore assists us in discovering and eliminating disease, in public health tasks like disease prevention and health promotion, and also in better healthcare service planning and delivery. Currently health geographics papers are offered very little room, priority and recognition in peer reviewed journals dealing with medical informatics, public health, statistics or GIS in general. All such journals available today are not specifically focused on the broader spectrum of geospatial information science in health and healthcare, and are at best journals of social medicine, public health, planning and policy with an emphasis on the concept of place.

International Journal of Health Geographics is filling this serious gap in existing journals by providing a credible central venue for researchers and practitioners to publish their health geographics research.

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Editor-in-Chief
Maged Nabih Kamel Boulos, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Editorial Board
Philip AbdelMalik, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada
Renato Assuncao, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
John G Breslin, Insight Centre for Data Analytics and National University of Ire, Republic of Ireland
Manfred Buchroithner, Institut fur Kartographie, TU Dresden, Germany
Ewart Carson, City University, UK
Steeve Ebener, World Health Organisation, Switzerland
Alexander Stewart Fotheringham, Arizona State University, USA
Jianya Gong, Wuhan University, China
Colin N Gordon, National Electronic Library for Health, UK
J. A. Muir Gray, Better Value Healthcare, UK
Gary Higgs, School of Computing University of Glamorgan, UK
Alison Hill, Institute of Health Sciences, UK
James Holt, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Richard Hoskins, WA State Dept of Health, USA
Dina N Kamel Boulos, Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
Omar Khan, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, USA
Martin Kulldorff, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Andrew B Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Markku Löytönen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Marguerite Madden, Geography, University of Georgia, USA
Tony Mathys, University of Edinburgh, UK
Lisel O'Dwyer, Flinders University, Australia
Bernd Resch, University of Salzburg, Austria
Abdul V Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada
Gerard Rushton, The University of Iowa, USA
Ric Skinner, Independent Consultant in Healthcare GIS, USA
Ralph Smith West Midlands, Cancer Intelligence Unit, UK
Statistical Advisor
Ezzeldin Ibrahim, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia