Future theme issues
Scheduled theme issues
2025
November
Traditional medicine and global health
Call for papers
2026
February
Health system responses to population declines
Call for papers
March
The ethics of research into health and climate change
Call for papers
Published theme issues
2025
103(2) Digital technologies to improve health services
2024
102(12) Sexual health and well-being across the life course
102(10) Establishing the impact of WHO's normative and standard-setting functions
102(7) Approaches to health systems performance assessment
102(5) Building an economy for health for all
102(2) Geopolitics, global health and equity
2023
101(2) Health impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss
2022
100(11) Advancing rehabilitation through health policy and systems research
100(2) Lessons for effective COVID-19 policy responses
99(11) Harnessing the power of behavioural science to improve health
99(2) COVID-19: advancing towards an equitable and healthy world
2020
98(11) Primary health care: realizing the vision
98(4) Artificial intelligence in the health sector: ethical considerations
98(2) Accelerating universal health coverage
2019
97(10) Hearing loss: building capacity for a public health response
97(2) Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
2018
96(10) The future of eye care in a changing world
96(9) Health and the sustainable development goals
96(2) Special collection on emerging infectious diseases
2017
95(11) Healthy ageing
95(6) Measuring quality of care
95(2) Vulnerable populations
2016
94(5) The Global strategy for women's, children's and adolescents' health (2016-2030)
2014
2013
91(11) Human resources for universal health coverage
91(9) Women's health beyond reproduction - a new agenda
91(2) Opioid substitution therapy
2012
2011
89(10) Social determinants of health
2010
88(5) Health workforce retention in remote and rural areas
88(3) Communicable diseases in the South-East Asia Region
2009
87(11) Strengthening the linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV
87(8) Public health communication
87(5) Childhood injuries and violence
2008
86(11) Health financing
86(8) Ethics in public health
86(5) Prevention and control of childhood pneumonia
2007
85(5) Tuberculosis Control
85(3) Health and Foreign Policy
2006
84(11) Contracting and Health Services
84(8) Knowledge Translation
84(5) Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health
84(3) Estimating Mortality
2005
83(9) Oral Health
83(8) Health Information Systems
83(4) Human Resources for Health; selected diseases
2004
82(10) Bridging the Know-Do Gap in Global Health
82(9) Economics of Immunization
82(8) Migration and Health Workers
82(6) Maternal and Congenital Syphilis
82(1) Polio Eradication: end stage challenges
2003
81(9) Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010
81(6) Health Impact Assessment
2002
80(12) Global Public Health and International Law
80(6) Tuberculosis
80(2) Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
2001
79(12) HIV/AIDS
79(10) Noncommunicable Diseases
79(9) Globalization
79(8) Public-Private Partnerships for Drugs and Vaccines
79(3) Blindness
2000
78(12) Malaria
78(10) Child Mortality
78(9) Environment and Health
78(7) Tobacco
78(6) Health Systems
78(5) Reproductive Health
78(4) Mental Health
78(3) Polio Eradication
78(2) Immunization Safety
78(1) Inequalities in Health