Horizon of Public Health Sciences (HoPHS) publishes scientifically rigorous and policy-relevant research that advances understanding of population health, disease distribution, health determinants, health systems, prevention, equity, resilience, and the translation of evidence into public-health action.

HoPHS aims to provide an international forum for original research and evidence synthesis addressing the health of populations and communities. The journal welcomes quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, implementation, evaluation, policy, systems, economic, spatial, and interdisciplinary approaches when they make a clear contribution to public-health knowledge.

HoPHS welcomes epidemiological research that improves understanding of disease patterns, risk and protective factors, population health trends, prevention strategies, surveillance, and the distribution of health outcomes across communities and populations.

The journal publishes research examining how environmental, occupational, built-environment, climatic, chemical, physical, and biological exposures influence health and how these risks can be prevented, monitored, regulated, or reduced.

HoPHS publishes studies on the design, financing, governance, delivery, utilization, quality, equity, efficiency, and evaluation of health systems and services, including evidence relevant to policy formulation and implementation.

Research in this area should advance understanding of individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, cultural, and structural influences on health behaviour and evaluate strategies for improving health literacy, prevention, participation, and community wellbeing.

HoPHS welcomes research on population nutrition, food environments, nutritional epidemiology, growth and development, maternal and child nutrition, ageing, and other life-course determinants of health and disease.

HoPHS publishes work examining health challenges that cross geographic, social, economic, and political boundaries, with particular interest in health equity, vulnerable populations, preparedness, disaster risk reduction, emergency response, climate resilience, and resilient health systems.

HoPHS also welcomes manuscripts that integrate multiple domains or use emerging public-health methods, provided the work has a clear population-health contribution.

Scope fit is determined by the manuscript's central research question and contribution, not merely by the presence of a public-health keyword in the title or abstract.

HoPHS welcomes studies from all countries and settings, including local and subnational research. Geographic scale alone does not determine suitability. Locally conducted studies should clearly explain their scientific, methodological, policy, implementation, equity, or comparative significance and the lessons they contribute to public-health knowledge.

HoPHS prioritizes research that improves understanding of population health, identifies preventable risks and inequities, strengthens health systems and communities, and informs effective public-health action across local, national, and global contexts.