Aim
GJCCPH publishes rigorous interdisciplinary scholarship examining how climate change, climate variability, environmental exposures, and climate-related hazards affect human health and health systems, and how effective adaptation, mitigation, preparedness, and policy responses can be developed and evaluated.
Scope
The journal investigates associations, mechanisms, and, where supported by study design, causal relationships between climate-related exposures and health outcomes. Relevant exposures may include extreme heat and cold, precipitation anomalies, floods and droughts, wildfire smoke, air pollution and combustion-related pollutants such as PM2.5, ozone and nitrogen dioxide, vector ecology shifts, sea-level rise, climate-related displacement, food and water insecurity, and greenhouse-gas-associated climate exposures.
Core Areas
- Environmental Epidemiology and Vector-Borne Diseases: climate-sensitive infectious diseases, vector ecology, zoonoses, exposure assessment, surveillance, and spatial epidemiology.
- Extreme Weather and Health-System Resilience: heat, floods, droughts, storms, wildfire, displacement, injury, mortality, healthcare access, infrastructure resilience, preparedness, and adaptation.
- Climate Policy, Mitigation Economics, and Global Health Equity: climate-health policy, implementation science, health economics, mitigation co-benefits, adaptation effectiveness, governance, environmental justice, and inequities within and across populations.
Additional Topics
- Climate-related mental health and psychosocial outcomes.
- Air pollution, wildfire smoke, and respiratory or cardiovascular health.
- Nutrition, food systems, water security, sanitation, and climate-sensitive health risks.
- Climate migration, displacement, occupational health, and vulnerable populations.
- Early warning systems, climate services, public health surveillance, and risk communication.
- GIS, remote sensing, spatial modeling, time-series analysis, and reproducible climate-health methods.
Scope Boundary
Submissions must demonstrate a clear and substantive relationship to climate change, climate variability, climate-related hazards, environmental exposure, or climate-sensitive public health outcomes. Purely climatological or environmental studies without a meaningful public health dimension are normally outside scope, as are general public health studies that lack a substantive climate or climate-related environmental context.
For empirical research, authors should identify the relevant climate-related exposure(s), environmental variable(s), health outcome(s), and analytical framework where applicable. Not every article type requires a measured climate variable; policy, legal, economic, implementation, commentary, and conceptual work may qualify when the climate-health relationship is substantive and central to the article.
Title Guidance
Titles should be concise, informative, and accurately reflect the principal research question, population, setting, method, or contribution. The journal does not require authors to place a climate variable and health outcome in every title.
Out-of-Scope Examples
- Pure climate modeling with no substantive health or health-system application.
- General medical or public-health research in which climate is incidental or not analytically or conceptually central.
- Commercial product promotion, unsupported advocacy, or opinion lacking a clear scholarly basis.