Planetary Health: From Challenges to Opportunities for People, Place, Purpose and Planet

Dear Colleagues,

The 8th annual meeting of inVIVO Planetary Health will be held in Detroit, Michigan, USA on 15–17th May 2019. The theme of the meeting, “From Challenges, to Opportunities”, underscores the imperative to address the complex ecological challenges of advancing global urbanization—for personal, environmental, economic, and societal health alike.

You are invited to submit papers to be presented at the 8th Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health (https://www.invivoplanet.com/2019-meeting.html), for publication in IJERPH (Impact Factor 2.145). This Special Issue will be guest-edited by Prof. Dr. Susan Prescott and Dr. Alan C. Logan. Manuscripts should be submitted by 31 May 2020. See the Special Issue website for further details and submission instructions. Participants of this conference, and inVIVO members, will receive a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges.

We also welcome outside submissions that focus on understanding and improving the complex relationships between human health and planetary health. We welcome manuscripts that discuss the ecobiological interactions in our living environments (including urbanization, food systems, education, social inequity, climate change, biodiversity loss, and microbial ecology) on physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, together with the wider community and societal factors that govern these.

Papers submitted to this Special Issue of IJERPH will undergo the standard peer-review procedure. Published papers will be indexed by the SCIE (Web of Science) and PubMed.

Prof. Dr. Susan L. Prescott
Dr. Alan C. Logan
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.