Authors & Contributors
The Journal of Environmental Health (JEH) advances the science and practice of environmental public health by publishing timely, relevant, and high-quality research and practical insights that inform decision-making, strengthen professional practice, and support a healthy environment for all.
As our core publication, the JEH contributes to our mission of building, sustaining, and empowering an effective environmental health workforce. It serves as a trusted forum for disseminating evidence, elevating practice, and fostering thought leadership to protect communities and strengthen environmental health systems.
Reflecting this scope, the JEH prioritizes work that bridges research and application, with clear implications for practice, policy, and future study, supporting professionals who interpret evidence, implement interventions, and lead programs that safeguard environmental public health.
Author Guidance
We invite submissions from practitioners, researchers, educators, and policymakers that advance the knowledge of environmental health and its application. We encourage the submission of original research, applied and practice-based studies, systematic and narrative reviews, case studies, and reports on innovative programs, management strategies, and emerging issues. Commentaries, policy analyses, and other contributions that offer crucial insight into current challenges and solutions are also encouraged.
We have completely updated our Instructions for Authors guide and added new submission requirements. Please review this guide and familiarize yourself with our requirements to ensure your manuscript is accepted for review.
Authors receive no monetary compensation for their contributions to the JEH, and all technical material is subject to peer review.
New Manuscript Submission Site
We are excited to announce the opening of our new manuscript submission site on Scholastica. The new submission system provides us with tools to better manage your manuscript. Furthermore, it enables us to review them more promptly.
Authors can check the status of their manuscripts more easily and message our editorial staff through the system if questions arise. Overall, the new system provides authors with a more responsive and intuitive system, streamlining and simplifying the submission, review, and communication process.
If your manuscript is accepted for publication, the submission system integrates seamlessly with our indexing platform on Scholastica, ensuring that all the metadata submitted for your manuscript is correctly listed when the article is indexed.
Questions? Contact us at jeh@neha.org.
Building Capacity Column Submission
A need exists within environmental health agencies to increase their capacity to perform in an environment of diminishing resources. With limited resources and increasing demands, we need to seek new approaches to the practice of environmental health. Acutely aware of these challenges, the JEH publishes the Building Capacity column to educate, reinforce, and build upon successes within the profession using technology to improve efficiency and extend the impact of environmental health agencies.
The JEH seeks guest authors for the Building Capacity column. Our goal is to provide a platform to share capacity building successes occurring across the country and within different sectors of the environmental health profession, including academia, private industry, nongovernmental organizations, and state, local, tribal, and territorial health agencies.
Submissions will be reviewed by technical advisors for data and technology and JEH staff for appropriate content, relevance, and adherence to submission guidelines.
Become a Peer Reviewer
Scientific manuscripts submitted to the Journal for publication consideration go through a peer review process. Peer reviewers are subject matter experts who provide constructive comments designed to help the author produce a better article, as well as provide direction on the suitability of the manuscript for publication. On average, peer reviewers conduct three to four manuscript reviews a year at the direction of the Journal's editorial staff.
The Journal of Environmental Health is currently in search of new peer reviewers.
Thank You to Our Peer Reviewers
The Journal thanks and honors our peer reviewers whose contributions are paramount to our efforts to advance, advise, educate, and promote environmental health professionals. We sincerely appreciate their hard work, devotion to the environmental health profession, and willingness to share their wealth of knowledge and expertise.
Technical Editorial Board
- William A. Adler, MPH, RS | Retired (Minnesota Department of Health), Rochester, MN
- Gary Erbeck, MPH | Retired (County of San Diego Department of Environmental Health), San Diego, CA
- Thomas H. Hatfield, DrPH, REHS, DAAS | California State University, Northridge, CA
- Dhitinut Ratnapradipa, PhD, MCHES | Creighton University, Omaha, NE