RSTMH announces a new Journal looking at Artificial Intelligence and Global Health
The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is thrilled to be announcing the development of a new journal looking at Artificial Intelligence and Global Health, which will be launching in early 2026.
The digital world is evolving at a rapid pace, and the intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence is at the forefront of this changing landscape.
AI has transformed how health care services are delivered, from drug development to personalised medicine, to disease monitoring and surveillance and we believe that academic publishing needs to reflect this.
We hope that this new journal will provide a platform for the latest original research, reviews, learnings and opinion pieces on AI in Global Health research and implementation. Building on our Special Collection on AI and Global Health, which was published earlier this year we hope this journal will showcase and encourage discussion and shared learning around the ethics, regulations, and utilisation of AI in global health, and that submissions will address issues of equitable access and adoption, especially in low-resource settings.
Scope, Updates and Next Steps
The Society agreed terms with Oxford University Press in September 2025 at our Annual Meeting.
Launching a new journal takes time, and since that first announcement, we have been steadily recruiting an Editorial Board for the new journal, including roles such as Editor in Chief, Executive Editors, Associate Editors, and wider Editorial Board members.
We plan to announce our Editor in Chief and confirm the title of the journal in December. Subsequent announcements, relating to the Editorial Board appointments and a launch date, will follow shortly after this.
The new journal will be interdisciplinary, providing interested stakeholders with a dedicated forum for analysis, debate, and opinion sharing. We expect that it will cover all areas of AI (machine learning, natural language processing, digital technologies, image and signal processing, etc.), and the application of these technologies to global health research, in particular R&D, translation, biomedical informatics, diagnostics, treatment, , surveillance, policy development and regulation, and ethics. AI has implications in all areas of health, from maternal health to elderly care, infectious and non-communicable diseases, acute and chronic conditions, and we would like to see submissions across this range of disciplines.
There has been a huge amount of interest in the new journal, and we envisage that this launch can provide a much-needed space for the cross over of global health and AI.
If you are interested in finding out more about the journal, or being part of the editorial team, please get in touch with our managing editor, Tom Pinfield at thomas [dot] pinfield [at] rstmh [dot] org.