Aims & Scope 

Public Health Policy, Legislation & Equity is an international platform for examining how legislation, regulation, and governance shape population health and health equity. Its mission is to advance rigorous, interdisciplinary scholarship to inform fair, evidence-based policy and its effective implementation across diverse settings, including low- and middle-income countries and conflict-affected regions.

Priority areas include:

• Population-level regulation and fiscal policy: salt and sugar legislation, food reformulation and labelling, fiscal policies, and governance of alcohol, tobacco, vaping, heated products and chicha.
• Environmental and planetary health law: air quality, wildfire smoke, climate policy, chemical exposures, microplastics, housing and the built environment.
• Commercial determinants and trade: marketing restrictions; corporate accountability; trade agreements affecting health.
• Vulnerability and mobility: health rights of refugees, migrants and stateless people; health in war zones; detention and carceral health.
• Occupational and labour health: worker-protection legislation; informal and platform-economy labour; exposure regulation.
• Health-systems governance: UHC, financial protection, medicines procurement and supply chains; digital-health regulation; data governance, accountability and anti-corruption.
• Substance use, risk and harm reduction: psychoactive substances; legal and policy architectures for prevention and harm reduction.
• Emerging technologies and hazards: AI regulation; early-warning and biosafety frameworks; synthetic biology.
• Methods and innovation: legal epidemiology; quasi-experimental policy evaluation; comparative law; rights-based and ethical analysis.