Global Health Research and Policy invites submissions for a special issue highlighting collaborative efforts to safeguard public health security across China and ASEAN countries. This special issue is linked to the 2026 Conference on Cross-border Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases between ASEAN and China and focuses on strengthening regional health security, addressing emerging and re-emerging infectious threats, and promoting cross-national cooperation in public health.

China and ASEAN countries are closely connected through geographic proximity, population mobility, trade, tourism, labour migration, and shared ecological environments. These connections create important opportunities for regional collaboration, but they also increase the risk that infectious disease threats may quickly spread across borders. Against this background, cross-border cooperation on infectious disease prevention and control between China and ASEAN countries has become a critical area of regional health security and an important pathway for safeguarding public health security in ASEAN and the wider region.

Strengthening China–ASEAN collaboration in regional health governance, surveillance and early warning, information sharing, joint risk assessment, coordinated emergency response, One Health action, vaccine governance, and health-system resilience is essential for building a more coordinated, resilient, and equitable regional public health architecture. This special issue seeks to promote evidence-based research, policy dialogue, and practical solutions that advance China–ASEAN cooperation in infectious disease prevention and control, while also welcoming broader public health issues relevant to regional cooperation and knowledge sharing.

Scope and Topics of Interest

We welcome empirical, methodological, and policy-oriented submissions that provide insights into China–ASEAN health collaboration mainly in stepping up the fight against infectious diseases and enhancing public health protection. Key topics include, but are not limited to:

1. China–ASEAN Regional Health Security Governance

2. Cross-border infectious disease surveillance, prevention, and early warning

3. One Health approaches to cross-border, inter-sectoral collaboration

4. Health security and vaccine governance

5. Accessibility of health and pharmaceutical products to cope with infectious diseases

6. Health system strengthening to safeguard health security, such as health financing, resource mobilization, human resources in health, etc.

7. Health policy and governance on climate change and health

8. Maternal, child, and adolescent health in the context of regional health security

9. Infectious disease impact on health system resilience

10. Other public health issues relevant to regional cooperation and knowledge sharing

Manuscript Types

We welcome all kinds of article types depicted in our submission guideline.

Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted via the journal's online submission system. Please indicate in your cover letter that the manuscript is intended for this special issue, together with the article type information. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.

Guest Editors

· Prof. Ming Xu, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, China. Email: xum@bjmu.edu.cn

· Prof. Tippawan Liabsuetrakul, Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. Email: tippawan.l@psu.ac.th

· Prof. Kiat Ruxrungtham, School of Global Health, Chulalongkorn University , Thailand. Email:Kiat.R@chula.ac.th

· Prof. Leo Yee Sin, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Email:yee.sin.leo@nhghealth.com.sg

· Prof. Ivy Chung, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Email:ivychung@ummc.edu.my

· Adjunct Prof. Sok King Ong, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. Email:sokking.ong@moh.gov.bn

For detailed submission guidelines, please consult the Global Health Research and Policy website and select the special issue on China–ASEAN cross-border infectious disease prevention.

Manuscript submission information

Submission deadline: This is a long-term call.

Manuscripts should be submitted using the journal's online submission system. During submission, please select the special issue (or indicate in the cover letter) that your manuscript is intended for this special issue on cross-national ageing surveys.

About GHRP

Global Health Research and Policy (GHRP), launched officially in June 2016 by Wuhan University, is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to global health development. Rooted in the university's global health discipline building, it has grown steadily over the past decade and gained wide academic recognition, being indexed by PubMed Central, Web of Science ESCI, Scopus and Medline, and obtaining its first Impact Factor of 8.7 in 2023. The journal has received over 3700 submissions from more than 80 countries and regions, featuring inclusive perspectives from both Global North and South. After years of cooperation with BMC, it switched to KeAi Publishing in 2026. As a key global health communication platform, it has advocated for affordable, equitable and sustainable publishing and will continue to advance global health research and policy practices worldwide.