EcoHealth profiles research and practice that apply ecosystem principles to address health and sustainability challenges within diverse settings: ranging from public health practice and human and veterinary medicine, to conservation and ecosystem management, or rural and urban development and planning.

We invite substantial contributions to the following areas:

Integrated studies in ecology, health and sustainability:

Integration of biophysical, social and health sciences
Ecosystem approaches to health, equity and sustainability
Linking research and policy in ecology, health and sustainability
Socioecological determinants of health inequalities
Local and indigenous knowledge of human and ecosystem health
Transdisciplinary teaching and research linking ecology and health
Multi-stakeholder problem solving for health and sustainability

Global Change and Human Health:

Global environmental degradation and human health
International trade and travel, and emerging infectious disease
Ecological perspectives on infectious and chronic disease
Integrated assessments of human, wildlife and ecosystem health
Interactions between built environments, land use change, agriculture, soil and water resources, and health
Relationships between development, environment and health
Population displacement stemming from environmental disasters

Conservation Medicine:

Anthropogenic change and drivers of disease emergence in terrestrial and marine ecosystems
Links between conservation and human health
Ecology of infectious and zoonotic diseases at different scales
Emerging infectious diseases affecting wildlife, domestic animals and plants in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems
Relationship between ecosystems, biodiversity and human health
Ecological health in terrestrial, freshwater & marine conservation