Epidemiology
A section of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426).
Section Information
Closing Statement: This section is now closed and will no longer accept regular submissions. Ongoing Special Issues will remain open for submission as per their established deadlines.
Aim
This Section of the Journal of Personalized Medicine seeks to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, and evidence-based contributions that advance the area of personalized medicine in connection to epidemiology. Epidemiology is defined as the scientific, methodical, and data-driven study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and occurrences (not only illnesses) in defined populations. Epidemiology is a cornerstone of public health, shaping policy choices and evidence-based practice by identifying disease risk factors and preventative healthcare priorities.
Scope
The topics of interest, with a view toward personalized medicine, include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Illness causation: an essential topic in biomedical disciplines; strong etiological explanations are required in order to establish treatment methods in medicine and public health initiatives.
- Transmission of diseases: the transmission of a pathogen responsible for communicable illness from an infected host individual or group to a specific individual or group.
- Investigation of disease outbreak: identifying the cause of a disease.
- Disease surveillance: an information-based activity that entails the collecting, analysis, and interpretation of massive amounts of data from many sources.
- Environmental epidemiology: determining how environmental exposures impact human health.
- Forensic epidemiology: establishing evidence-based probabilistic judgments regarding the kind and magnitude of causal relationship between a prior harmful exposure and a resulting injury or illness in both groups and individuals.
- Occupational epidemiology: characterizing occupational illnesses and determining their fundamental causes.
- Screening of diseases: the use of a medical treatment or test on patients who do not yet have symptoms of a certain disease in order to determine their chance of getting the ailment.
- Biomonitoring: the measurement of environmental chemicals and/or their metabolites in biological media, such as blood or urine.
- Comparisons of treatment effects, such as in clinical trials.
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Recent Research on Personalized Approaches to Clinical Therapeutics and Medication Safety (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
- Recent Advances in Oral Diseases—2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 January 2026)
- Advances in Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Deadline: 31 January 2026)
- The Ethnoracial Diversity of Diabetes: Insights into Epidemiology, Genetics, Disease Management, and Personalized Therapies (Deadline: 5 March 2026)
