A new journal with much work to do

Peter J. Matthews

doi:10.4081/jphia.2011.e17

A new journal with much work to do

https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2011.e17

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011)

Submitted: 16 February 2011
Accepted: 16 February 2011

Published: 1 March 2011

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Peter J. Matthews
researchcooperative@gmail.com
National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.

My association with the Journal of Public Health in Africa (JPHiA) has been as brief as the journal is young. I have had the privilege of seeing this journal grow from being just a twinkle in the eye of one of its founding editors. I am glad that a young researcher from Africa has had the courage to start the journal. Africa generally has a very young demographic profile, and the future of the continent lies in the hands of its youth. Understanding this aspect of the large-scale context of public health is of course one way that countries, institutions, individual researchers, and publishers can see where their priorities lie, for public health in the near-to-long term future....