The Journalof Urban Health is a bimonthly peer-reviewed publication which focuses onthe emerging fields of urban health and epidemiology. The Journal addresseshealth issues such as substance abuse, teenage pregnancy, HIV, tuberculosis,and violence from both clinical and policy perspectives, filling a neglectedniche in medical and health literature. In addition to original articles, theJournal publishes urban health data, book reviews, selected reports andproceedings from Academy symposia, and classic papers that are important to theknowledge base of the field.