Geohealth is a rapidly emerging transdisciplinary field that supports the intersection of Earth and environmental sciences with human, agricultural, and environmental health. As a first step in its efforts to support and enable this emerging field, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has announced the launch of its newest journal, GeoHealth.
The collaborative efforts between geoscientists, ecologists, and environmental and health professionals can influence global change in agricultural and ecological health and services, inform public health campaigns, and have direct benefits to human health and the environment. The discipline is expected to grow as geoscience research in environmental factors becomes increasingly important to understanding global and local issues related to health and the environment. Technological developments will also evolve the field. Integrating healthcare data with geospatial mapping technology to identify and understand environmental factors and health trends across certain geographies is just one example of geohealth's many practical applications.
AGU is collaborating with publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to launch a new open access peer-reviewed journal, GeoHealth. GeoHealth will cover the sciences that explore how natural disasters and hazards and environmental changes in the oceans, atmosphere, and on land, affect not only public health and disease but also agriculture and ecology. Topics will span global, regional, and local issues including air and water pollution, the use and impact of herbicides and pesticides, radiation, the impact of climate change, and resource use.
Rita R. Colwell has been appointed Founding Editor of GeoHealth and will steer the journal through its launch. Colwell is a Distinguished University Professor both at the University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She served as the 11th Director of the National Science Foundation and is a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Microbiology.
In addition to the new journal, AGU is exploring a variety of other options to bring together and support the work of researchers in the geohealth space.
The new journal joins AGU's portfolio of prestigious research publications that are governed by AGU's rigorous peer review process. This includes the highly ranked Geophysical Research Letters and Earth's Future—an innovative publication that features trans-disciplinary research, editorials, and essays emphasising the Earth as an interactive, evolving system under the influence of the human enterprise—which was successfully launched in late 2013 As with AGU's other open access journal's GeoHealth will publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution License enabling authors to be fully compliant with open access requirements of funding organizations where applicable. All articles will be deposited in PubMed Central immediately upon publication to comply with NIH mandates.
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