Chronic diseases
- epidemiology of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, mental health, obesity
- prevention and management in low resource settings
- risk factors including effects of diet or lifestyle
Environmental health
- epidemiological studies of environmentally-caused disease in the general population
- health consequences of environmental accidents or natural disasters
- health effects of environmental factors
- studies documenting exposure of the general population
Health services
- health care including costs
- health policy
- health promotion inc mHealth
- health service provision, training and access
Infectious diseases and parasitoses
- viral and prion diseases
- bacterial diseases including mycobacteria
- fungal diseases
- parasitoses including malaria, leishmaniases, schistosomiasis and filariasis
Aspects included are: nosocomial infections, opportunistic infections, food-, water- and vector-borne diseases, zoonoses, emerging infectious diseases, classic tropical diseases, and vaccination programs.
Patient-related aspects emphasised are: diagnosis, disease course, pathology, pathogenesis, drug and non-drug therapy, epidemiology and disease transmission including transmission by vectors or risk behaviours, prevention programmes & public health campaigns , infection control, immunization, screening, case finding and clinical microbiology.
Nutrition
- feeding programmes
- interaction between nutrition and other diseases
- malnutrition and deficiency diseases
Public and community health
- general demography, rates of birth, death, fertility
- global burden of disease including DALYS
- health of indigenous or marginalised populations
- health of children under 5 years
- health promotion and disease prevention. Risk behaviours
- health systems
- OneHealth
Public health and medical zoology/entomology
- disease vectors in relation to disease transmission
- diseases caused by arthropods, including their bites and stings
- plant and animal toxins
- public health in relation to nuisance pests
- snake bites, including clinical studies and biochemistry of venoms
Occupational health
- accidents and injury rates and reduction
- disease prevention & screening
- health and safety including exposure monitoring
- occupational diseases
Reproductive health
- family planning
- maternal and infant mortality
- maternal and infant health and antenatal care
- sexual health and sexually transmitted infections
Traditional medicine
- indigenous knowledge
- medicinal plants
- traditional health care and health care workers
Travel medicine
- health of travellers
- immunization
- imported infections and illness during travel
- refugee and immigrant health in developed and developing countries
- travel advice & disease prevention in travellers