About the Journal

Human Biology and Public Health is the official journal of the Auxological Society in cooperation with the German Society for Public Health and Population Medicine.

Aims & Scope

The purpose of the journal is to bridge the gap between an individual medical/clinical perspective of public health and the population-based perspectives of human biology. We consider human biology as the study of the genetic, environmental, and cultural determinants of biological variability in living people, and public health as the science of health protection, health promotion, and health communication.

The focus is on how the human species evolved, how individual humans change over the lifespan (growth, maturation and development), how humans adapt to external stressors, and how human biology and culture interact to shape the wide range of normal variation in the biology and behavior of the human species. Both Human Biology and Public Health research contribute to risks for disease, with a cross-cultural, historical, and evolutionary perspective. 

Human Biology and Public Health is a blind peer-reviewed, international journal that continuously publishes reports of original research, theoretical articles, timely reviews, and short notes in the field of human biology and public health. As the official journal of the Auxological Societyin cooperation with the German Society for Public Health and Population Medicine (DGÖGB), the Journal also publishes perspectives and proceedings of research presented at their annual scientific meetings.

Human Biology and Public Health seeks scholarly manuscripts that address all aspects of the biology of living humans and  publishes basic, applied, and methodologically-oriented research, including growth, nutrition, aging, physical activity, fitness, ecology, and their medical/clinical perspectives.

Human Biology and Public Health is committed to prompt review, and priority publication is given to manuscripts with novel or timely findings, and to manuscripts of unusual interest.