Diseases do not end at international borders. They can start in one area and quickly reach another part of the world, along with the movement of people. As a consequence of this geographic dispersion through the movement of people, growing challenges to Public Health are emerging which require responses at an international and a global level. The World Health Organization has suggested the implementation of several goals to strengthen these responses: supporting national surveillance and response systems, fostering global partnership, improving health safety in travel and transport, sustaining human rights, and focusing research efforts. These are the pillars of International and Global Health, and the areas of Public Health that define the route towards fully addressing these goals.

We hope that this Research Topic may serve as a stimulus for those who are interested in or involved with the discussion of challenges and solutions in overcoming boundaries of diseases. In particular, our objective is to assemble a collection of papers on International and Global Health and their declinations: tropical medicine, travel medicine, migrant and refugee health, and neglected tropical diseases – all from a Public Health perspective and with a special focus on communicable diseases. With this Research Topic, we want to identify and collect important but still poorly understood pieces of research surrounding these topics, spanning from epidemiology to public health implications and responses.

Thus, we would like to ask you to contribute to this Research Topic with qualitative or quantitative research that explores the aspects of International and Global Health. In particular, possible themes are:

• Advances on the geospatial distribution of communicable diseases;

• The burden and impact of diseases and their indicators;

• Possible disease control measures;

• The evaluation of national, regional, and global responses to possible outbreaks;

• All other public health actions to minimize the impact of diseases on patient and population health;

• Treatment pattern of therapy use; effectiveness/safety of available therapies.

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