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Tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: Epidemiology and programmatic advances on the path to elimination

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Emily Lai-Ho MacLean, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia
Hongjo Choi, PhD, Korea University, Korea
 

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 3 March 2026 
 

Tropical Medicine and Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on Tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: Epidemiology and programmatic advances on the path to elimination.


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Meet the Guest Editors

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Emily Lai-Ho MacLean, PhD, University of Sydney, Australia

Dr Emily Lai-Ho MacLean is a Research Fellow at the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Tuberculosis Control and University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine. She also serves as Lead of the New Diagnostic Working Group’s Biomarkers Taskforce of the Stop TB Partnership. Emily is interested in TB epidemiology as well as the evaluation and implementation of new tuberculosis tests, particularly among under-researched groups such as people with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, people with drug-resistant tuberculosis, and young people.

Hongjo Choi, PhD, Korea University, Korea

Dr. Hongjo Choi is an Associate Professor at Korea University specializing in public health policy, social epidemiology, and infectious disease control. He has led numerous national and international research projects addressing tuberculosis, health equity, and global health challenges. His work focuses on impact evaluation of public health policies using implementation science and big data analytics. Dr. Choi has published widely and received multiple national awards for his contributions to public health.

About the Collection

Comprising 37 countries and areas, and with country populations ranging from 1000 to 1.4 billion, the WHO Western Pacific Region is vast and diverse. Year-on-year epidemiological data indicate that the Western Pacific Region is making progress in tuberculosis (TB) control and countries have been expanding the reach of their TB services. However, progress has been uneven across countries, resulting in dramatically heterogenous epidemiological situations: TB incidence rates that rank among both the highest and lowest in the world are found in our region.  


In this special issue, we are calling for articles that focus on the situation and context of TB in the Western Pacific Region today. We encourage submissions led by researchers and practitioners within the region. We invite recent work about country TB programmes, routine care, and programmatic services; epidemiological studies that have a regional, country, or within-country focus; contemporary issues of relevance to TB in the region, e.g., how TB intersects with migration, co-morbidities, or ageing populations (social determinants of TB); or intervention studies that are informed by the specific needs of countries in our region. 
 

We aim to describe the complexity of TB in the Western Pacific Region, as well as region-specific concerns, and showcase solutions that may improve TB care and patient outcomes. 
 

  1. Tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) can avert progression from infection to disease, yet scale-up across the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region is patchy. To guide acceleration, we assessed p...

    Authors: Kyung Hyun Oh, Alvin Kuo Jing Teo, Manami Yanagawa, Avinash Kanchar, Dennis Falzon, Cecily Miller, Youngeun Choi, Gyeong In Lee, Fukushi Morishita, Kalpeshsinh Rahevar, Huong Thi Giang Tran and Rajendra Prasad Hubraj Yadav
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2025 53:122
    Content type: Review Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original research and review articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: Epidemiology and programmatic advances on the path to elimination" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.