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Journal of Global Health (JoGH) is a peer-review general medical journal focusing on issues relevant for global health. The mission of the journal is to serve the community of researchers, funding agencies, international organizations, policy-makers and other stakeholders by providing an independent critical assessment of the key issues that dominated the global health community.

JoGH publishes original articles, viewpoints, research protocols and other publication items, making them available in full text online as soon as they are ready for publication. The articles are collected in two annual print issues, at the end of June and December. All submissions and editorial enquiries should be directed to Rachael.Atherton[@]jogh.org.
Publisher: International Society of Global Health (ISoGH). ISoGH is a not-for-profit organisation, registered in Edinburgh, UK (company number: SC630328, VAT ID GB 373 2611 09). Its aims include the promotion of global health as a field of scientific research and health-care practice nationally and internationally; and the dissemination and promotion of global health research and practice.
The views expressed by the authors do not reflect the views of JoGH or its publisher.

Journal design: Snježana Engelman Džafić for LASERplus, Zagreb, Croatia
Realisation: LASERplus, Zagreb, Croatia, www.laser-plus.hr
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Print ISSN: 2047-2978
Online ISSN: 2047-2986
JoGH editors and editorial board members are independent researchers based at academic institutions, thus being well placed to provide professional evaluation of the key topics and ongoing activities and programs.

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF


Professor Ana Marušić - Chair, Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health, The University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia

Professor Igor Rudan - Chair in International Health and Molecular Medicine; Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Population Health Research and Training; Co-Director, Centre for Global Health Research, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Professor Harry Campbell - Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health; Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Population Health Research and Training; Co-Director, Centre for Global Health Research, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

REGIONAL EDITORS


North America: Professor Robert E. Black - Director for the Institute of International Programs; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA • Professor Rifat Atun - Professor of Global Health Systems; Director of Global Health Systems Cluster; Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

South America: Professor Claudio F. Lanata - Nutritional Research Institute; Lima, Peru • Professor Cesar G. Victora - Professor of Epidemiology; Federal University of Pelotas; Pelotas, Brazil

Europe: Professor Sue C. Welburn - Vice-Principal, Global Access; Professor, Medical and Veterinary Molecular Epidemiology; The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK • Dr Evropi Theodoratou - Centre for Global Health Research, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Africa: Professor Shabir A. Madhi - Executive Director, National Institute for Communicable Diseases; DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Vaccine Preventable Diseases; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa • Professor Mark R. Tomlinson - Department of Psychology; Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa

Asia: Professor Zulfiqar A. Bhutta - The Noordin Noormahomed Sheriff Endowed Professor and Founding Chair; Department of Paediatrics and Child Health; The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan • Professor Shams El Arifeen - Professor of Epidemiology; Director, Centre for Child and Adolescent Health; International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B); James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

China: Professor Yan Guo - Professor of Public Health; Vice President, Peking University Health Science Center; Vice Chairman of the Chinese Rural Health Association; Vice Director of the China Academy of Health Policy (PKU); School of Public Health, Peking University,Beijing, China • Dr Kit Yee Chan - Visiting Scholar, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center; Peking University, Beijing, China and Reader, Center for Population Health Sciences; College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine; The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

India: Professor K. Srinath Reddy - President, Public Health Foundation of India; President, World Heart Federation; Chair, Core Advisory Group on Health and Human Rights, National Human Rights Commission, India; President, National Board of Examinations, India; Bernard Lown Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA • Dr Harish Nair - Public Health Foundation of India; Indian Institute of Public Health, New Delhi, India; Centre for Global Health Research, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Australia and Western Pacific: Professor Trevor Duke - Director, Centre for International Child Health; Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Child and Neonatal Health; Deputy Director of the Intensive Care Unit and Clinical Director of the General Intensive Care Unit; The University of Melbourne and Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia • Professor Wei Wang - Professor of Postgraduate Medicine; School of Medical Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

EDITORIAL COUNCIL


Professor James Smith - Vice-Principal International; Professor of African and Development Studies; School of Social and Political Science; The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK • Jake Broadhurst - Head, Global Academies Directorate; The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK • Professor Mickey Chopra - Honorary Professor of Global Health; Centre for Global Health Research, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; Lead health Specialist, The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA • Dr Elizabeth Grant - Director, Global Health Academy; Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Development; Programme Director, Distance Learning Masters Programmes; Centre for Population Health Sciences; College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine; The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK • Professor Devi Sridhar - Chair in Global Public Health; Centre for Global Health Research, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK and Co-Director, Centre for AIDS Interdisciplinary Research (CAIRO), Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, Oxford, UK • Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley - Dean of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences, Professor of Medical and Family Sociology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK • Professor Aziz Sheikh - Co-Director of the Centre of Medical Informatics and Professor of Primary Care Research and Development, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK







EDITORIAL BOARD


Dr Davies Adeloye - Covenant University Ota Ogun State, Nigeria; and Centre for Global Health Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK • Professor Abdullah H. Baqui - Director, International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health; The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA • Dr Luciana Brondi - Centre for Global Health Research, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK • Dr W. Abdullah Brooks - Director, Kamalapur Field Site; Head, Infectious Diseases Unit; The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Professor Graham Brown - Foundation Director; Nossal Institute for Global Health; The University of Melbourne,Melbourne, Australia • Ruth M. Campbell - Honorary Associate/Researcher; Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Cambridge, MA, USA • Associate Professor Josip Car - Director of Health Services and Outcomes Research Programme; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine; Imperial College &Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Director, Global eHealth Unit, School of Public Health, The Imperial College London, London, UK • Professor Simon Cousens - Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics; Director of Research Degrees; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK • Professor Karen Edmond - Winthrop Professor; School of Paediatrics and Child Health; The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia • Dr Christa L. Fischer Walker - Associate Scientist; Division of Global Disease Epidemiology and Control; The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA • Professor Wendy J. Graham - Chair in Obstetrics and Gynaecology; The Institute of Applied Sciences; The University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK • Dr David B. Hipgrave - Honorary Senior Researcher; Nossal Institute of Global Health; University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia and UNICEF, New York, NY, USA • Dr Hope L. Johnson - Center for Global Health; Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA and Head, Programme Outcomes and Impact, GAVI Alliance, Geneva, Switzerland • Professor Keith P. Klugman - William H. Foege Chair of Global Health; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health; The Emory Universtiy, Atlanta, GA, USA • Assistant Professor Ivana Kolčić - Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Croatian Centre for Global Health; Department of Public Health; The University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia • Assistant Professor Tomislav Lauc - Assistant Professor of Orthodontics and Dental Anthropology; Editor-in-Chief, South European Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Research; Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences and Humanities; University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia • Professor Joy E. Lawn - Director, Global Evidence and Policy, Saving Newborn Lives programme, Save the Children; Director, MARCH Centre; The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK • Clinical Assistant Professor James A. Litch - Director, Perinatal Interventions Program; Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS), Seattle Children's; Department of Global Health and Department of Epidemiology; University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA • Dr Li Liu - Assistant Professor; Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Department of International Health; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA • Professor Azeem Majeed - Head, Department of Primary Care & Public Health; Imperial College London, UK • Professor Julie Meeks Gardner - Head, Caribbean Child Development Centre; Consortium for Social Research and Development; The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica • Professor Katherine L. O'Brien - Executive Director, The International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC); Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Center for Global Health; Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA • Associate Professor Ozren Polašek - Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Director, Croatian Centre for Global Health; Department of Public Health; The University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia • Professor Carine Ronsmans - Professor of Epidemiology; Head, Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK • Professor Craig E. Rubens - Affiliate Professor of Global Health and Affiliate Professor of Pediatrics; Executive Director, Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS); Seattle Children’s and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA Professor Samir K. Saha - Head, Department of Microbiology; Executive Director, The Child Health Research Foundation; Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh • Professor Joshua A. Salomon - Professor of Global Health; Department of Global Health and Population; Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Global Health Institute; Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA • Dr Giorgio Tamburlini - Research Director, Institute of Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo; Scientific Director, European School for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health; Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Maternal and Child Health; The Institute Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy • Assistant Professor Alexander C. Tsai - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Department of Psychiatry; Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Boston, USA • Professor Peter Tugwell - Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Community Medicine; co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity; Director, Centre for Global Health; Institute of Population Health and Department of Medicine; Faculty of Medicine, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada • Associate Professor Anita K. Zaidi - Director of Research, Department of Paediatrics and Microbiology; The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan and Director, Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA • Associate Professor Lina Zgaga - Associate Professor of Epidemiology; Department of Public Health and Primary Care; Trinity College Centre for Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland • Professor Stanley H. Zlotkin - Professor, Departments of Paediatrics, Nutritional Sciences and Dalla Lana School of Public HealthVice President, Medical and Academic Affairs, Department of Pediatrics and Surgery, Division of Clinical Medicine; The Hospital for Sick Children, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada • Dr Henry Kalter - Institute of International Programs; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

MANAGING EDITOR/NEWS SECTION EDITOR:


Rachael Atherton - Centre for Global Health Research; College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK




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