World Health Day 7th April 2013 – Raising high blood pressure awareness
World Health Day is celebrated on the 7th April to mark the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948. This year’s theme is high blood pressure. With one in… Read more »
Natalie Pafitis
Natalie joined BioMed Central in October 2007 after having completed an MSc in Environmental Health at the Cyprus International Institute in Association with the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the Editor of BMC Public Health. Natalie has a keen interest in the use of research evidence to underpin public health policy and to advance the Sustainable Development Agenda. She is an ambassador of the Sustainable Development Goals for the BMC Series journals.
Latest posts by Natalie Pafitis (see all)
- Still thinking about eating that whole bag of chips? - 16th January 2020
- An interview with BMC Public Health Section Editor, Dr Shankar Viswanathan - 5th December 2019
- Do smoking bans lead to less or more smoking in the home? - 26th June 2018
BioMed Central at 140th American Public Health Association conference
BioMed Central has recently returned from APHA 2012, the 140th meeting of the American Public Health Association and the oldest and largest gathering of public… Read more »
Supporting young researchers in their efforts to publish successfully
Guest blog post by Dr Valéry Ridde, an Associate Editor of BMC Health Services Research. Dr Ridde is an Associate Professor at the University of Montreal… Read more »
BMC Public Health supplement – Universal coverage: Can we guarantee health for all?
Countries across the globe are faced with the challenge of bettering their health financing systems to achieve and maintain universal coverage of health… Read more »
BIGGER is not better for our planet
If there are currently more than seven billion people on earth and our total weight is estimated at 287 million tonnes, what are the implications for our planet… Read more »
BMC Pediatrics at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting
In 1981 the Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health brought forth the notion that ‘Children are one third of our population and all of our future’.… Read more »
BMC Women’s Health publishes over 100 articles
BMC Women’s Health is proud to announce that it has reached and surpassed its 100th article milestone. The journal, launched in 2001, continues to steadily… Read more »