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Kenneth McLeroy, PhD and Deborah Holtzman, PhD

Editors, Framing Health Matters

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In 1999, the Journal created a new department, Public Health Matters, to identify and bring to light public health research and practice beyond the disciplines of epidemiology and clinical medicine. In a November 1999 editorial ( Levin BW, Northridge ME. Why "public health matters." Am J Public Health. 1999;89: 1631–1632[Free Full Text] ), Betty Levin, then department editor, and Editor-in-Chief Mary Northridge described the new department as one that would promote high-quality public health research from the social and behavioral sciences; multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary research; and a variety of research methods, including qualitative and multiple methods. The department . . . [Full Text]