PARASITE EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CONTROL AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.1 • Editorial Board p.1 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 2405-6731 DESCRIPTION . Parasite Epidemiology and Control is an Open Access journal. There is increased parasitology research that analyses the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. This epidemiology of parasite infectious diseases is predominantly studied in human populations but also includes other major hosts of parasitic infections and as such this journal has broad remit. Parasite Epidemiology and Control focuses on the major areas of epidemiological study including disease etiology, disease surveillance, drug resistance, geographical spread, screening, biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects in clinical trials for both human and other animals. We also focus on the epidemiology and control of vector insects. The journal also covers the use of geographic information systems (Epi-GIS) for epidemiological surveillance which is a rapidly growing area of research in infectious diseases. Molecular epidemiological approaches are also particularly encouraged. ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . PubMed Central Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Google Scholar ScienceDirect Scopus EDITORIAL BOARD . Founding Editor Marcel Tanner, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland Epidemiology and control, health systems, one-health, global public health Editors Uwemedimo Friday Ekpo, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, Abeokuta, Nigeria Tropical Parasitic Diseases, Schistosomiasis, Malacology, Vector Control, Epidemiological Disease Mapping, Behavioral Changes, One health Pikka Jokelainen, State Serum Institute, Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Infectious Disease Preparedness, Laboratory of Parasitology, Copenhagen, Denmark AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 27 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/parepi 1 Zoonotic parasites, Toxoplasma gondii, One health Olumide Ogundahunsi, University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Nigeria Tropical diseases, malaria, implementation research, pharmacology &, therapeutics Juan David Ramírez, Universidad del Rosario, Center for Research in Microbiology and Biotechnology-UR (CIMBIUR), Bogota, Colombia Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, intestinal parasites, disease ecology, molecular diagnosis, disease evolution, genomics, transcriptomics Tai-Soon Yong, Yonsei University Institute of Tropical Medicine, Seoul, South Korea Systematics, ecology and the control of disease vectors, diagnosis technologies Editorial Board Members Jean Louis Abdourahim Ndiaye, University of Thies, Thies, Senegal Malaria epidemiology and control, public health, malaria in pregnancy, seasonal malaria chemoprevention Jeffrey M. Bethony, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America Vaccines, cancer biomarkers, biobanking and biorepositories, clinical trials, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDs- associated malignancies Fred Binka, World Health Organization Representative Office Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Clinical epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, measurement Pascal Boireau, National Agency for Food Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, Maisons Alfort, France Foodborne parasites Jong-Yil Chai, Seoul National University College of Medicine Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Seoul, South Korea Intestinal parasites, Diagnostic parasitology, Zoonotic trematodes, Clinical parasitology, Toxoplasmosis and Cryptosporidiosis Alan Cowman, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Infectious Diseases and Immune Defence Division, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Malaria, cell biology, vaccine and anti-malarial drug development Liwang Cui, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States of America Malaria functional genomics, drug devleopment, epidemiology and control Ananias Escalante, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, disease ecology, evolutionary genetics, comparative genomics Marcelo Urbano Ferreira, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Malaria epidemiology and control, population genetics of malaria parasites, naturally acquired immunity to parasites Felipe Guhl, University of Los Andes Department of Biological Sciences, Bogotá, Colombia Tropical Parasitology, neglected diseases, molecular biology, control strategies, chagas disease Peter Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America Vaccinology, neglected tropical diseases, public policy, hookworm, coronavirus Panagiotis Karanis, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany Water, Food, Vector, Airborne Parasitic and Tropical Diseases Jacob Koella, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchatel, Switzerland Theoretical epidemiology, evolutionary ecology of parasites, malaria-mosquito interactions Kwadwo Koram, University of Ghana Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Accra, Ghana Malaria epidemiology and control, drug resistance Jørgen A. 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Kurtzhals, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Malaria pathogenesis and treatment, parasite diagnostics, interactions between nutrition and infections, infection control, international health Marcus Lacerda, University of Amazonas State, MANAUS, Brazil Infectious diseases, Plasmodium vivax, anti-malarial drugs Shi-Zhu Li, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Shanghai, China Parasitic Disease Control, Schistosomiasis Control, epidemiology, phylogenetic, snail population genetics Lisette van Lieshout, Leiden University Medical Center Department of Parasitology, Leiden, Netherlands Epidemiology and control, health systems, one-health, global public health Santiago Mas-Coma, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Neglected tropical diseases, helminthic diseases, food-borne trematodiases, fascioliasis, vector-borne diseases, molluscan and arthropod vectors Donald P McManus, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Queensland, Australia AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 27 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/parepi 2 Schistosomiasis, Echinocococcosis, Intestinal worm infections, Diagnostics, Vaccines, Epidemiology, Health education João Mesquita, University of Porto Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, Porto, Portugal Molecular biology, epidemiology, vector-borne diseases Francine Ntoumi, Congolese Foundation for Medical Research, Brazzaville, Congo Malaria immunology and molecular epidemiology, infectious diseases David Piedrafita, Federation University Australia School of Science Engineering and Information Technology Gippsland, Churchill, Australia Immunology, vaccine development, Fasciola, veterinary parasitology Men-Bao Qian, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China Epidemiology and statistics, Helminthiases, Food-borne trematodiasis, Soil-transmitted helminthiasis, Taeniasis and cysticercosis Antonieta Rojas de Arias, Center for the Development of Scientific Research, Asuncion, Paraguay Chagas disease, Leishmaniasis, Malaria, Climate change, Ecoepidemiology David Rollinson, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom Schistosomiasis, control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases, population genetics and evolution Christen Rune Stensvold, State Serum Institute, København, Denmark Molecular epidemiology, diagnostics, intestinal Parasites, genetic diversity, microbiome Sue Welburn, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Neglected zoonotic diseases, one health, epidemiology, molecular epidemiology Zhong Dao Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China Helminths, Schistosoma, epidemiology and control Guiyan Yan, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America Vector-borne disease epidemiology, vector biology, malaria Xiao-Nong Zhou, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Shanghai, China Tropical diseases, Schistosomiasis, Malaria, Malacology, One health, Global health, Implementation research, Epidemiology, Modeling Xing-Quan Zhu, Shanxi Agricultural University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Taigu, China Parasite epidemiology, Diagnostics and control strategies, Parasite genetics, Genomics and functional omics, Molecular vaccines AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 27 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/parepi 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . INTRODUCTION There is an increasing amount of research in the parasitology area that analyses the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations. This epidemiology of parasite infectious diseases is predominantly studied in human populations but also spans other major hosts of parasitic infections and as such this journal will have a broad remit. We will focus on the major areas of epidemiological study including disease etiology, disease surveillance, drug resistance and geographical spread and screening, biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects in clinical trials for both human and other animals. We will also look at the epidemiology and control of vector insects. The journal will also cover the use of geographic information systems (Epi- GIS) for epidemiological surveillance which is a rapidly growing area of research in infectious diseases. Molecular epidemiological approaches are also particularly encouraged. The primary form of publication in the journal is a full-length paper describing scientifically-sound original research studies. Less than full-length publications include