Public Health Advances in Vector-Borne Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue will concern the scientific community interested in vector-borne diseases and zoonotic infections in their broadest sense. It will bring together knowledge from the different specialties/disciplines ranging from operational, policy, and advocacy research.

High-quality manuscripts on various public health aspects of vector-borne infections are welcome. We are particularly interested in including all disciplines and domains of diseases ranging from surveillance, diagnostics, therapeutics, management, community engagement, and outreach. The Special Issue will focus on eliminable diseases and neglected/under studied vector-borne diseases globally (such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, leishmaniasis, dengue, rift valley fever, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, zika, japanese encephalitis, tick-borne and mite-borne VBDs, trypanosomiasis, etc.). Since vector borne infections are climate sensitive, manuscripts addressing global climate change in relation to parasites and vectors and epidemiology, economics, and social sciences in general are also welcome.

In the field of zoonotic diseases, the mission is to bring together experts from different sectors such as animal health (veterinarians), environmental health (ecologists, wildlife experts, etc.), and human health (epidemiologists, public health experts, etc.) and policymakers by providing a venue for publishing integrated and global approaches to zoonoses, public health, and One Health. Papers should advance the scientific knowledge of the sources, transmission, prevention, and control of zoonoses and be authored by scientists with expertise in areas such as microbiology, virology, parasitology, and epidemiology.

Apart from research articles, cutting edge review (balanced and comprehensive overview) and opinion (personal and novel perspective) articles are welcomed.

Dr. Manju Rahi
Dr. Bhabani Sankar Das
Dr. Ashwani Kumar
Dr. Siraj Ahmed Khan
Dr. Mehul Dhorda
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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 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 2700 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.

• vector-borne diseases
• one health
• zoonotic diseases