Roles and Responsibilities
- The editorial board has the primary role of ensuring that the journal maintains its reputation as a reliable source of high-quality academic and policy oriented information.
- The editorial board will ensure the publication of quality peer reviewed articles based on the guidelines from trusted institutions on health researches like:
- Philippine Council for Health Research and Development http://www.pchrd.dost.gov.ph/index.php/downloads/category/5-ethics
- ICMJE—International Council of Medical Journal Editors icmje.org/index.html#publish
- The Associate editors will solicit or write manuscripts for consideration for publication which may be in the form of articles, commentaries, book reviews, visual art, and announcements.
- The Associate editors will review manuscripts depending on topic submissions and at the request of the Scientific Editors.
- The editorial board will participate in the resolution of author grievances.
- The International Advisory Board members shall provide guidance and decisions in the event of conflicting assessment from the Associate Editors which may consist of acceptability of terms used in a manuscript, impacts of the assertion of the authors, breaches of ethics, and themes for the next issue.
- The International Advisory Board members shall also provide technical reviews at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.
- In the absence of the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor, the editorial board will resolve cases through a votation.