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About Communicable Diseases Intelligence

Aims

Communicable Diseases Intelligence (CDI) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Health Protection Policy and Surveillance Division, Department of Health and Aged Care. The journal aims to disseminate information on the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases of relevance to Australia.

Correspondence

Correspondence should be sent to: cdi.editor@health.gov.au

Available file formats and accessibility

CDI is published electronically only and is available in 2 formats from this website: Adobe Acrobat - Portable Document Format (PDF) and – depending on publication date – accessible Microsoft® Word or HTML format.

Indexing

CDI is listed on MEDLINE and indexed by PubMed, an online searchable index of published articles and authors. CDI is also available full-text on the Global Health database (CABI) and on the Elsevier services EMBASE and Scopus.

Access model

CDI is published online under an 'open access' model. All online CDI articles and published content are copyright and made available free of charge. They are only available in electronic form as a soft copy and are not available in printed form as a hard copy.

CDI articles published from 2018 onwards

CDI articles published from 2018 onwards are made available for free under the terms of a creative commons licence. Details of the licensing terms can be found and read by accessing the link provided in each article. Use consistent with the licensing terms requires no further consent. These licensing terms are the only rights of use and no further licensing rights or permissions will be considered.

CDI articles published online before 2018

CDI articles published online before 2018 are made available for free in accordance with the permitted uses allowed in the copyright statement included for the particular CDI Issue. Use consistent with the permitted uses allowed in the copyright statement requires no further consent. Requests for any use of these CDI articles outside the permitted uses allowed in the copyright statement must be directed to the Department at cdi.editor@health.gov.au
Any use outside the permitted uses allowed in the copyright statement is at the Department‘s discretion and may be subject to additional terms of use.

ISSN

ISSN: 2209-6051 (Online)

Disclaimer

Opinions expressed in Communicable Diseases Intelligence are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care or the Communicable Diseases Network Australia. Data may be subject to revision.

Editorial team

The editorial team consists of the editor, deputy editor, and a designer and is currently augmented by a web content migration worker. The editorial team is supported by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB).

Editor: Christina Bareja
Deputy Editor: Simon Petrie
Design and Production: Lisa Thompson
Web Content Migration: Ken Vesperman

Editorial advisory board

The role of the CDI Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) is to:

• provide expert advice to the CDI editorial team; advocate for CDI in the broader community;
• serve as a critical sounding board for the editorial team on editorial ideas and themes;
• provide ideas for features and news and thoughts on current trends; and provide constructive feedback on published issues.

David Durrheim
Mark Ferson
Clare Huppatz
John Kaldor
Martyn Kirk
Meru Sheel

Information for authors

CDI encourages submissions from practitioners in all disciplines across the public health field. Advanced trainees and postgraduate students are also encouraged to submit to CDI. CDI publishes original articles, systematic reviews, short reports, surveillance reports, systematic reviews, letters to the editor, policy / guidelines, notices to readers, and editorials. Original articles, short reports and systematic reviews are peer-reviewed. If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for CDI please email the CDI Editorial Team (cdi.editor@health.gov.au) with your details and areas of expertise. More information about article types is available on the Instructions for Authors page. To ensure efficient handling of your manuscript, please adhere to the submission guidelines.