Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Olivier Bruyère, University of Liège, Belgium
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Twitter: @olibruyere
Olivier is currently Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences and of Geriatric Rehabilitation in the Department of Rehabilitation and Sport Sciences at the University of Liège in Belgium.  He is also head of the Research Unit in Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics at this University.  Professor Bruyère is the Chief Executive Officer of the European Society on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO), President of the Belgian Ageing Muscle Society (BAMS), General Secretary of the Belgian Bone Club (BBC), member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and is a member of the Group for the Respect of Ethics and Excellence in Sciences (GREES).  He also works as expert for the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES).  His main fields of interest are prevention, rehabilitation and pharmaco-epidemiology related to geriatric or rheumatic conditions.  He is Executive Editor of “Aging Clinical and Experimental Research”, Associate Editor of “BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders” and holds positions on the editorial board of various journals.  He is author of more than 250 international scientific publications and book chapters.
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Public health, Rehabilitation, Muscle, Bone, Pharmacoepidemiology, Meta-analysis, Systematic review

Herman Van Oyen, DrPH, SCIENSANO, Belgium
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Twitter: @hvanoyen
Herman retired from his position as Scientific Director of the Directorate Epidemiology and public health at Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium. He still continues to teach Epidemiology at the University of Ghent. He first worked as a medical doctor in Haiti before going on to study public health, epidemiology and biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he completed a DrPH. His key research interests include epidemiological methods, survey methodology, health inequality and summary measures of population health. He is author of more than 200 scientific publications, books and book chapters. 
Specialisms: Epidemiological methods, Survey methodology, Summary measures of population health, Health information, Inequality

Brecht Devleesschauwer, MSc, PhD, SCIENSANO, Belgium
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Twitter: @brechtdv
Brecht is head of the Service Health information at Sciensano, and is appointed as visiting professor in Risk Analysis at Ghent University. He conducts policy-driven public health research in the domain of composite measures of population health and health inequalities. As a member of the World Health Organization Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (WHO/FERG), he contributed to the estimation of the global burden of foodborne disease. Currently, he is coordinating the Belgian National Burden of Disease Study, and chairing the European Burden of Disease Network. Brecht holds PhD degrees in Public Health and Veterinary Sciences, and MSc degrees in Biostatistics and Veterinary Medicine. He is author of more than 200 international scientific publications and book chapters.
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Public health, Burden of disease, Health inequalities, Health impact assessment


Managing Editor
Tadek Krzywania, SCIENSANO, Belgium









Associate Editors

Abdosaleh Jafari, PhD, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Amin Sharifan, PharmD, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria
Andrea Cioffi, MD, University of Foggia, Italy
Aniello Minutolo, PhD, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Antonino Patti, PhD, University of Palermo, Italy
António Raposo, PhD, CBIOS (Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies), Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Ashish Singh, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Atsuhiko Ota, MD, PhD, MPH, Fujita Health University, Japan
Carl Abelardo T. Antonio, MD, MPH, PhD, University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines
Catherine Capio, PhD, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chandrashekhar Sreeramareddy, MD, International Medical University, Malaysia
Chee Wei Tan, PhD, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Cindy Sit, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Damir Ivanković, PhD, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dickson Amugsi, PhD, African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
Ehimario Igumbor, PhD, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Nigeria
Fei Luo, PhD, Central South University, China
Felipe Cureau, PhD, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
Finaba Berete, PhD, Sciensano, Belgium
Georgios Markozannes, PhD, University of Ioannina, Greece
Germain Honvo, PhD, University of Liège, Belgium
Gianmarco Ferrara, PhD, University of Messina, Italy
Giulia Dallagiacoma, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Grant Wyper, PhD, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Gregory Knell, PhD, University of North Texas Health Science Center, United States of America
Handan Wand, PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia
Hasan Hüseyin Yilmaz, PhD, Atatürk Üniversity, Turkey
Henok Kebede, Resolve to Save Lives, Ethiopia
Javad Sharifi Rad, PhD, Universidad Espíritu Santo, Ecuador
Jérôme Antoine, Sciensano, Belgium
Jinlei Nie, PhD, Macao Polytechnic University Macao SAR, China
Jinming Han, MD, PhD, Capital Medical University, China
Jinyu Sun, PhD, Nanjing Medical University, China
João Vasco Santos, PhD, University of Porto, Portugal
Johanna de Almeida Mello, PhD, KU Leuven, Belgium
Manfred Accrombessi, MD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Marie Delnord, PhD, Sciensano, Belgium
Monal Yuwanati, MDS, Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, India
Munjae Lee, PhD, Ajou University School of Medicine, Republic of Korea
Nader Ghotbi, PhD, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
Omid Fakheran, PhD, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Orazio Valerio Giannico, Local Health Authority of Taranto, Italy
Periklis Charalampous, PhD, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Peter Macharia, PhD, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
Rajesh Sharma, PhD, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
Ramesh Poluru, PhD, The INCLEN Trust International, India
Raphael Mendonça Guimarães, FIOCRUZ - National School of Public Health, Brazil
Razak Gyasi, PhD, African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
Robertas Damaševičius, PhD, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Romeo Patini, PhD, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Italy
Roy Marzo, Management and Science University, Malaysia
Saruna Ghimire, MPH, PhD, Miami University, United States of America
Satyajit Kundu, MPH, Griffith University, Australia
Sevil Hakimi, Ege University, Turkey
Seyed Ehsan Mousavi, MD, MPH, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Shiyam Sunder, PhD, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Sonia Minooee, PhD, James Cook University, Australia
Sumathi Swaminathan, PhD, St John’s Research Institute, India
Sun Jung Kim, PhD, Soonchunhyang University, Republic of Korea
Sylvester Okeke, PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia
Thomas Druetz, University of Montreal, Canada
Valentina Baccolini, MD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Vanessa Gorasso, PhD, Sciensano, Belgium
Xiaomin Wan, PhD, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China 
Yuanyuan Xiao, Kunming Medical University, China
Yun-Ju Lai, PhD, Puli Branch of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, MD, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, India
Zhong Li, PhD, Nanjing Medical University, China

Editorial Board
Archie Alexander, MD, University of Houston, USA
Janis Baird, FFPH, PhD, DRCOG, DCH, MB, BCh, University of Southampton, UK
Masoud Behzadifar, PhD, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Abate Bekele Belachew, MSc, University of Oulu, Finland 
Pankaj Bhardwaj, MD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur, India
Joanna Diong, PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia
Brigitte AB Essers, PhD, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Netherlands
Vanessa Gorasso, PhD, Sciensano (Belgium), Belgium
Eero A Haapala, PhD, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Nicholas Harvey, MA, MB, BChir, MRCP, PhD, University of Southampton, UK
Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, MA, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Shyamal Koley, PhD, Guru Nanak Dev University, India
Kewal Krishan, PhD, Panjab University, India
Syed Esam Mahmood, MD, Integral Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, India
Daniel Pinto, PhD, Marquette University, USA
Walter GW Ricciardi, MD, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS, Italy
Jean-Marie Robine, PhD, INSERM, France/EPHE, France
Manish M Tiwari, MBBS, PhD, MPH, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Caroline Trumpff, PhD, Columbia University, USA
Viviane Van Casteren, MD, SCIENSANO, Belgium
Stephan Van den Broucke, PhD, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Hans van Oers, PhD, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Stefanie Vandevijvere, DrPH, SCIENSANO, Belgium
Tomas Vega Alonso, MD, MPH, PhD, Regional Health Department of Castilla y León, Spain
Marieke Verschuuren, MD, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Netherlands


Trusted Reviewers

Mary Ani-Amponsah, PhD, University of Ghana, Ghana
Margot Balcaen, PhD, Sciensano Research Institute, Belgium
Nan Chen, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada
Zetao Cheng, PhD, Southern Medical University, China
Paige Davies, PhD, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Yinghui Duan, PhD, AbbVie Inc., USA
Boya Guo, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA
Matthew Chibunna Igwe, PhD, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria
Denny Mathew John, PhD, Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, India
Liyong Lu, PhD, Shandong University, China
Iracema Lua, PhD, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Sunny Mannava, PhD, University of Hyderabad, India
Gabriella Meltzer, PhD, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, USA
Sayan Mitra, PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia
Stephanie Navarro, PhD, University of Southern California, USA
Elizabeth Obekpa, PhD, The University of Texas Health Science Center, USA
Nagila Oenning, PhD, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador
Million Phiri, PhD, University of Zambia, Zambia
Adhish Sethi, PhD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Pratik Shingru, PhD, Boston University, USA
Rafaela Soares Rech, PhD, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil
Raneen Raed Sweity, MD, Al-Quds University, Israel
Gebiyaw Wudie Tsegaye, PhD, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
Florida Uzoaru, PhD, Saint Louis University, USA
Marie Vermote, PhD, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Nidhi Wali, PhD, Western Sydney University, Australia
Kamil J. Wrona, PhD, Bielefeld University, Germany
Jin Yan, PhD, Soochow University, China
Jemal Ayalew Yimam, PhD, Wollo University, Ethiopia
Weijun Yu, PhD, Georgetown University Global Health Institute, USA
Yuslina Zakaria, PhD, Universiti Teknologi MARA(UiTM), Malaysia