摘要：This editorial heralds the online publication of a new, international, peer-reviewed, open access journal, dedicated to emerging threats to human health. The Journal is an initiative of the Emerging Health Threats Forum, an independent, not-for-profit association that was established with support from the UK’s Health Protection Agency. This Journal builds on the Forum’s extensive emerging health threats news service and weekly Emerging Health Threats Monitor, with original research articles, in-depth reviews, perspectives, commentaries, and policy reviews on emerging health threats.1 Policy reviews catalogue strategies used to address threats, and appraise their effectiveness. Unique to the Emerging Health Threats Journal will be a new article type on strategic lessons learned. This will capture the critical lessons in disaster and other crisis responses that are often overlooked until they are relearned yet again in the next disaster. (Published: 29 February 2008) Citation: Emerging Health Threats Journal 2008, 1:e1. doi: 10.3134/ehtj.08.001
