ISSN: 1606-0997

The Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (JHPN), incorporating the Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, is owned and published by the ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research.

The ICDDR,B became the focal point of the world’s medical communities for developing oral rehydration therapy (ORT) which saves millions of lives each year. The Centre is an independent, international, non-profit organization for research, education, training, clinical services, and information dissemination. Located in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, it is the only truly international health research institution based in a developing country. The ICDDR,B is the first recipient of Gates Award for Global Health.

The vision is: all people, especially the poor, can become healthier and can reach their full potential through the application of new knowledge. The mission is to develop and promote realistic solutions to the major health, population and nutrition problems facing the poor people of Bangladesh and other settings.

The Centre’s research activities now encompass a wide range of protocols with emphasis on nutrition, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, reproductive health, child health, case management, vaccine evaluation, population sciences, health and family-planning systems, poverty and health, HIV/AIDS, and environmental health.

The Journal is published bi-monthly. It is indexed/ abstracted by the major international indexing systems, including the Current Contents: Clinical Medicine, Re-search Alert, SCI Expanded, SCI JCR, Index Medicus, PubMed/MEDLINE, Google Scholar, POPLINE, Embase (Excerpta Medica database), Elsevier Biobase (Current Awareness in Biological Sciences), Elsevier GeoAbstracts, CAB Abstracts®, CAB Health®, etc.