Conflict and Health

Conflict and Health is a fully open access journal published by BioMed Central documenting the public health impacts of and responses to armed conflict, humanitarian crises and forced migration, founded in 2007, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.4《冲突与健康》（Conflict and Health）是由（BioMed Central）出版的全开放获取期刊，记录武装冲突、人道主义危机与强迫移民相关的公共卫生影响及应对，创刊于 2007 年，2025 年影响因子为 6.4。

Scope

• It documents the public health impacts of and responses to armed conflict, humanitarian crises and forced migration该刊记录武装冲突、人道主义危机与强迫移民的公共卫生影响与应对。
• It provides a global platform to disseminate insightful and impactful studies该刊为传播深刻而有影响力的研究提供全球平台。
• Its coverage includes infectious disease prevention and control, nutrition, reproductive and maternal health, and sexual and gender-based violence其报道范围包括传染病预防与控制、营养、生殖与孕产妇健康及性与性别暴力。
• It also welcomes work on mental health, non-communicable diseases, health systems and ethics in conflicts and humanitarian crises该刊亦欢迎心理健康、非传染性疾病、卫生系统及冲突与人道主义危机中伦理的研究。
• Supported by a global editorial board, it welcomes quantitative and qualitative studies as well as perspectives在全球编委会支持下，该刊欢迎定量与定性研究以及观点文章。
• It aims to influence global health policy and humanitarian programmes through strategic editorials and thematic issues该刊旨在通过战略性社论与专题专辑影响全球卫生政策与人道主义项目。

History

• The journal was launched in 2007 by Bayard Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to provide a forum for documenting public health responses during and after conflict该刊于 2007 年由伦敦卫生与热带医学院的（Bayard Roberts）创办，为记录冲突期间及之后的公共卫生应对提供论坛。^[1]
• Its founding editorial framed the field as a paradigm shift in global health and human rights其创刊社论将该领域视为全球健康与人权的范式转变。
• A 2014 editorial reviewing its first seven years counted more than 120 published articles spanning infectious disease control, reproductive health, mental health, health system reconstruction and ethics in emergencies一篇 2014 年回顾其创刊前七年的社论统计已发表 120 余篇文章，涵盖传染病控制、生殖健康、心理健康、卫生系统重建与突发事件伦理。^[2]
• Jonathan Polonsky of the World Health Organization and Daniela Fuhr subsequently led the journal as editors-in-chief世界卫生组织的（Jonathan Polonsky）与（Daniela Fuhr）其后相继担任主编。
• Karl Blanchet of the University of Geneva was appointed co-editor-in-chief in 2025, joining Daniela Fuhr日内瓦大学的（Karl Blanchet）于 2025 年获任共同主编，与（Daniela Fuhr）共同执掌该刊。
• Its impact factor rose from 2.7 in 2021 to 6.4 in 2025, and about 44 percent of its 2025 articles were authored by researchers in low- and middle-income countries其影响因子由 2021 年的 2.7 升至 2025 年的 6.4，2025 年约 44% 的论文由中低收入国家的研究者撰写。

Editors

• The editors-in-chief are Karl CP Blanchet of the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies at the University of Geneva and Daniela Fuhr of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology in Bremen共同主编为日内瓦大学人道主义研究中心的（Karl CP Blanchet）与不来梅莱布尼茨预防研究与流行病学研究所的（Daniela Fuhr）。
• Blanchet is professor of humanitarian public health and co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement（Blanchet）为人道主义公共卫生教授，兼任健康、冲突与强迫流离失所问题柳叶刀委员会共同主席。
• Associate editors include Aula Abbara of Imperial College London and Chiara Altare of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health副编辑包括伦敦帝国学院的（Aula Abbara）与约翰斯·霍普金斯大学布隆伯格公共卫生学院的（Chiara Altare）。
• The board spans institutions on several continents, including the University of California Berkeley, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Aden编委会成员机构遍布多个大洲，包括加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校、伦敦卫生与热带医学院与亚丁大学。
• The journal reports a median of 7 days from submission to first decision and recorded 1.1 million downloads in 2025该刊投稿至首次决定的中位时间为 7 天，2025 年下载量达 110 万次。
• More than half of its 2025 articles related to one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals其 2025 年过半文章涉及一个或多个可持续发展目标。