MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

MMWR, short for the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, is a weekly public health journal published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of public health information, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 16.2《发病率与死亡率周报》（MMWR）是由美国（Centers for Disease Control and Prevention）出版的公共卫生周刊，是该机构发布公共卫生信息的首要科学出版物，2025 年影响因子为 16.2。

Scope

• It publishes timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective and useful public health information and recommendations刊载及时、可靠、权威、准确、客观且有价值的公共卫生信息与建议。
• Its readership includes physicians, nurses, public health practitioners, epidemiologists, other scientists, researchers, educators and laboratorians其读者包括医师、护士、公共卫生从业者、流行病学家、其他科学家、研究人员、教育工作者与实验室人员。
• MMWR Weekly publishes five types of reports, namely Full Reports, Outbreak Reports, Policy Notes, Notes from the Field and Vital Signs该刊刊载五类报告，即完整报告、暴发报告、政策简报、（Notes from the Field）与（Vital Signs）。^[1]
• It reports nationally notifiable disease data and publishes the annual Summary of Notifiable Diseases该刊报告全国法定报告疾病数据，并发布年度法定报告疾病摘要。
• It covers a broad range of topics including infectious diseases, chronic diseases, environmental and occupational health and injuries其覆盖广泛议题，包括传染病、慢性病、环境与职业健康以及伤害。^[2]
• All material in the MMWR series is in the public domain and may be reprinted and translated without special permission（MMWR）系列的全部材料均属公有领域，无需特别许可即可转载和翻译。
• The Weekly edition is widely regarded as the voice of CDC and is ranked first among Epidemiology publications on Google Scholar该刊每周版被视为（CDC）的声音，在（Google Scholar）流行病学类出版物中排名第一。

History

• It was first published in 1952 by the US National Office of Vital Statistics该刊于 1952 年由美国（National Office of Vital Statistics）首次出版。
• CDC began publishing it on January 13, 1961, about fifteen years after the agency was established in 1946（CDC）于 1961 年 1 月 13 日开始出版该刊，此时距其 1946 年成立约十五年。
• From 1961 to 1985 it consisted only of the weekly publication, usually an eight- to sixteen-page booklet1961 年至 1985 年间，它仅包含每周出版物，通常为八至十六页的小册子。
• Since 1985 MMWR has grown into a series that also includes Recommendations and Reports, Surveillance Summaries and Supplements自 1985 年起，（MMWR）扩展为一个系列，还包括建议与报告、监测摘要与增刊。
• It is published weekly and is freely available as diamond open access, with no subscription or article charges该刊每周出版，作为钻石开放获取内容免费提供，不收取订阅费或文章处理费。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 35.301 in 2022, 17.3 in 2024 and 16.2 in 2025, ranking seventh among 443 journals in Public, Environmental and Occupational Health in 2025其影响因子 2022 年为 35.301，2024 年为 17.3，2025 年为 16.2，2025 年在公共卫生、环境与职业健康类别 443 种期刊中排名第七。

Editors

• Its Acting Editor-in-Chief is Leonard Jack, Jr., who took up the role in January 2026 and also directs the Office of Science Dissemination其代理主编为 Leonard Jack Jr.，于 2026 年 1 月上任，同时担任科学传播办公室主任。
• Jacqueline Gindler is the Editor of MMWR Weekly, having joined the journal in September 2015Jacqueline Gindler 是（MMWR Weekly）的编辑，于 2015 年 9 月加入该刊。
• Mary Dott serves as an Online Editor and joined in November 2017 as the journal's inaugural online editorMary Dott 担任在线编辑，于 2017 年 11 月作为该刊首位在线编辑加入。
• Meda E. Pavkov is another Online Editor of the journalMeda E. Pavkov 是该刊的另一位在线编辑。
• Terisa F. Rutledge is the Managing Editor and is the longest tenured staff member at MMWRTerisa F. Rutledge 是编辑主任，也是（MMWR）任职时间最长的员工。
• The MMWR Editorial Board is chaired by Timothy F. Jones, the State Epidemiologist for the Tennessee Department of Health（MMWR）编辑委员会由（Tennessee Department of Health）的州流行病学家 Timothy F. Jones 担任主席。
• Board members include Matthew L. Boulton of the University of Michigan and Jonathan E. Fielding of the University of California, Los Angeles编委会成员包括（University of Michigan）的 Matthew L. Boulton 与（University of California, Los Angeles）的 Jonathan E. Fielding。