Hector Balcazar, PhD,
Mary E. Northridge, PhD, MPH,
Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP,
Farzana Kapadia, PhD and
Neil E. Hann, MPH, CHES
Hector Balcazar is current chair of the editorial board, Mary E. Northridge is editor-in-chief, Georges C. Benjamin is publisher, Farzana Kapadia is deputy editor, and Neil E. Hann is immediate past chair of the editorial board of the Journal.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Hector Balcazar, PhD, School of Public Health, University of Texas, 1100 N Stanton, Suite 100, El Paso, TX 79902 (e-mail: hector.g.balcazar@uth.tmc.edu).
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INTRODUCTION
An individual has not started living until he can rise abovethe narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broaderconcerns of all humanity.—Martin Luther King Jr.
With this editorial, we begin a new era by introducing a systemsscience approach toward advancing public health through theJournal.1 The motivation for bringing this paradigm to our collectiveenterprise is to capture—in its essence—a complexsystem that values leadership, science and its translation,policy, and the publication of public health research and practicepapers that are centrally concerned with improving populationhealth. In doing so, we build upon . . . [Full Text]
