To offer a venue for public health issues and research focusing on Hawai‘i and the
Pacific in a publication.

Public health professionals, academics, students, and even members of the public from Hawai‘i and the Pacific, including three thousand staff members of the Hawai‘i State Department of Health, where Director Chiyome Leina‘ala Fukino sees the Journal as an essential tool for workforce improvement.

While we welcome submissions from any location, our focus is on Hawai‘i and the Pacific. We recognize the substantial links of Hawai‘i and the Pacific to locations such as the continental United States. Thus, we particularly encourage submissions from authors concerning populations from Hawai‘i and the Pacific who have settled in other areas.

Public health practitioners, students and the public in Hawai‘i and the Pacific, as well as the continental US and beyond.

Although our journal will remain a high-quality, peer-reviewed publication, we also recognize the need to encourage first-time authors to publish. thus, we will work with authors to make their work publishable, if at all possible. We believe that instead of creating a barrier to publication we will facilitate new authors and maintain high quality publications. To this aim, we offer a wide variety of formats ranging from traditional original research articles to brief reports, student submissions and a discussion section where issues of public health can be debated.

Letters (>500 words) will discuss materials published in this journal, or issues of general interest. They can be submitted by email to kawika.liu@doh.hawaii.gov or andrewg@hawaii.gov  or by regular mail to:

Letters are not acknowledged upon receipt, nor are authors generally consulted before publication. Whether published in full or in part, letters are subject to editing for clarity and space.