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The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific is a new open access journal, part of The Lancet’s global initiative to advocate for health-care quality and access in all regions of the world. The journal fosters the advance of clinical practice and health policy in the Western Pacific region, with the ultimate goal of improving health outcomes. We aspire to increase the quality of regional and national health research.

The journal publishes high-quality original research that illuminates clinical practice and health policy in the Western Pacific region. We also consider relevant reviews, commentaries and opinion pieces. The journal invites submissions on topics pertaining to regional health, including but not limited to infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, child and adolescent health, maternal and reproductive health, aging health, mental health, the health workforce and systems, and health policy.

The Lancet Regional Health

The Lancet Regional Health is a new suite of open access, general medical journals publishing high-quality, evidence-based research focused on six regions of the world. The regions are based on the WHO region designation.

Article processing charges

No subscription or pay-per-view charges apply to any content published in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. In order to cover the costs of reviewing, copy editing, layout, and online hosting and archiving, the journal charges an article processing fee of $3500 upon acceptance of submitted research articles (no fee applies to commentaries or opinion pieces).

Authors whose main funder is located either in group A or B countries of the Health Inter Network Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) or in a country with a low UNDP human development index will be exempt from payment. For authors with no formal funding, the country of origin of the majority of authors' institutions will be taken as the source country. If there is no majority country, the corresponding author's country will be so designated.

The editorial decision to accept is taken well before any request is made as to the ability to pay. Payments are processed by a department unconnected to The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific's editorial department.

Manuscript guidelines

Manuscript preparation must adhere to relevant reporting standards on the EQUATOR network website. Further details on the different sections of The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, and how to submit to the journal, are provided in the Information for Authors. If you require further clarification, please email your query to [email protected]. Our journal's editorial staff will be pleased to help you.

Wherever possible, figures and good quality photographs should be used to supplement and to enhance the text. We also welcome videos.

Manuscripts must be solely the work of the author(s) stated, must not have been previously published elsewhere, and must not be under consideration by another journal. The Lancet journals are signatories of the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE Recommendations), and to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) code of conduct for editors. We follow COPE's guidelines.

About the Editorial team

Jie Cai

Dr Jie Cai, Editor-in-Chief
Dr Jie Cai is the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. Prior to joining the Lancet family of journals as China Senior Editor for EBioMedicine in 2019, she worked at Wiley as an editor for the Advanced Materials series peer review team. Jie completed her PhD at Leiden University Medical Centre (The Netherlands) in 2016. Her research focused on BMP signalling in vascular and heterotopic bone diseases. She graduated with a MSc in Biochemistry from Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Science in 2011.

For enquires about The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, contact Jie Cai at [email protected]

Zhirui Liu

Dr Zhirui Liu, Senior Editor
Dr Zhirui Liu is a Senior Editor of The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. Before joining the Lancet family of journals in 2020, he worked as a senior scientific editor in Neuroscience Bulletin. He received his PhD degree at Shanghai University School of Life Sciences in 2012 and continued to work as a postdoctoral fellow at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine and Duke University (USA) from 2012 to 2016. His research focused on the structure-function relationship of voltage-gated sodium channels under the physiological and pathological conditions and the molecular interactions of neurotoxins with the channels. He was given “Excellent Talent in the Publishing Field” award from Chinese Academy of Science in 2019.

For enquires about The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, contact Zhirui Liu at [email protected]

Copyright and reuse

All content is published under Creative Commons licensing, which enables authors to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work, provided full credit is given to them as originators. Authors of commercially funded research will be offered a CC BY-NC-ND license. All other authors will be offered a choice of two licences (CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND) depending on whether they wish to allow commercial reuse of their work or whether they wish to allow others to alter their work during its reuse. Authors will be asked to sign an exclusive licence (or non-exclusive licence for government employees) to permit our publisher, Elsevier Ltd, to publish the work in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific.

Ombudsman

Our ombudsman can: investigate delays in handling submitted manuscripts; discourtesy; failure to follow outlined procedures; failure to take reasonable account of representations to us by authors and readers; and challenges to the publishing ethics of the journal. If you have concerns about any of the above, please first contact an editor or the editorial inbox [email protected]; an editor will then respond to you (often, an editor can respond satisfactorily). If you remain dissatisfied with our response, please contact Malcolm Molyneux ([email protected])

Read more about the ombudsman and see our ombudsman's reports.

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Cover image volume 3, Issue
The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific
October 2020
Volume 3