Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Edward K. Mensah PhD, MPhil
Associate Professor Emeritus of health economics and informatics, Health Policy and Administration Division, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
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Edward Mensah is the Founding Director Emeritus of the graduate public health informatics program at UIC and a founding member of the health informatics and information technology session (HIIT) of the American Public Health Association (APHA). He has served as a subject matter expert in the development of value propositions for public health informatics projects at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Professor Mensah is the founding editor of the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, a visiting professor (measurement of wellbeing) at the Department of business economics at the University of Lille (France) and an external examiner at The University of Cape Coast (Ghana).
He was the principal investigator of the federally funded health information exchange program for the State of Illinois and has served as a visiting scholar in economics at the University of Chicago. His areas of research include health economics and policy, public health informatics, health services research, and eHealth valuation. He has published over 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Kirti Gandhi, BSc Biotech, PGC, Managing Editor, JMIR Publications
Editorial Board Members
Associate Editors
Herman Tolentino, MD, Health Scientist (Informatics), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
Osaro Mgbere, PhD, Public Health Science and Surveillance Division, Houston Health Department (USA)
Jacob Krive, PhD, MBA, MS, CPHIMS, LSSGB, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)
Kiran Kanakadandila MSc, Director, Intelligent Automation Solutions (USA)
Emmanuel Kusi Achampong, PhD, College of Medicine, University of Cape Coast (Ghana)
Nsikak Akpakpan MD, PHD, Digital Innovation Senior Principal, Accenture Applied Intelligence, Global Applied Intelligence Lead, Accenture Development Partnerships (USA)
Anirudh Kotlo, MS (Global Health), Research Coordinator, Arthritis Research Canada (Canada)
Niek Zuidhof, PhD, Senior Researcher, Technology, Health & Care, Employability Transition, Saxion University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands)
Supharerk Thawillarp, MD, MSc, DrPH, CISSP, Assistant Division Director, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health (Thailand)
Kerstin Gierend, PhDc, Research Associate, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Mannheim Institute for intelligent Systems in Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University (Germany)
Leming Zhou, BS, MS, PhD, DSc, Program Director, Master of Science in Health Informatics, University of Pittsburgh (United States)
Radha Taralekar, MD, National Consultant - TB Prevention, WHO India
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How can I apply to become an editorial board member?
We are currently looking to expand our Editorial Board. To apply to be an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor, please apply using the form linked in this article. You should hold a PhD (or similar higher degree), have a publication track record (h-index>8), and ideally have some academic editing experience.
Guest Editors
We are also seeking guest editors who may wish to compile a theme issue on a special subtopic. Click here for more information on how to suggest a theme issue.
This may be particularly interesting for workshop and conference organizers putting together a grant-funded event (eg, with invited experts) on an eHealth-related topic. JMIR can then be used as a dissemination vehicle.
The task of the Guest Editor(s) is generally to:
- Solicit manuscripts from colleagues concerning the selected topic;
- Select peer-reviewers for incoming manuscripts;
- Make decisions (together with the editorial board) on article revisions and acceptance;
- Write an editorial for the theme issue; and/or
- Secure funding to sponsor the APFs for published papers (usually in the $10-20k range).
Alternately, the abstracts of the conference may be published in a supplement in iProc, with selected full papers published later in a theme issue or in regular JMIR issues.