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Happy New Year and a healthy and successful 2016.  I have the pleasure to announce the first two editorials published this year by CMMPH staff and students.  Although I am slightly cheating as the editorials were really published yesterday on the very last day of 2015 in the latest edition of the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology.  In my defence I didn’t have access to the internet here in Nepal until this afternoon.

The first of the two editorials focuses on small-scale community birth centres in post-earthquake Nepal [1].  The lead author of this editorial our CMMPH PhD student Preeti Mahata and all her co-authors are affiliated with BU.  Dr. Pramod Regmi, Dr. Catherine Angell and Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen are FHSS staff and Prof. Padam Simkhada and Dr. Brijesh Sathian are both BU Visiting Faculty.  Preeti Mahato is conducting her PhD research on birthing centres in Nawalparasi, in the south of Nepal, in an area bordering India.

The second editorial looks at ‘health’ in the recently announced new Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nepal [2].  The concept of health as a human right seems to us quite central in the Nepalese Constitution, considerably more so than in the Constitutions of the USA or the Netherlands, for example.  Four of the five authors of this editorial are affiliated with BU, whilst Dr.Puspa Pant is based at  the Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, at the University of the West of England.

The Nepal Journal of Epidemiology is Gold Open Access hence both editorials are freely available to everyone.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

CMMPH

References:

1. Mahato, P.K., Regmi, P.R., van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P., Angell, C., Sathian, B. (2015) Birthing centre infrastructure in Nepal post 2015 earthquake. Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 5(4): 518-519. http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/NJE/article/view/14260/11579
2. Simkhada, P., Regmi, P.R., Pant, P.R., van Teijlingen, E., Sathian, B. (2015) Stipulating citizens’ fundamental right to healthcare: Inference from the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nepal 2015. Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 5(4); 516-517. http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/NJE/article/view/14257/11576