Dear Colleagues,

The concept of resilience is being used increasingly in the field of public health. For instance, Health 2020, the WHO health policy framework developed to assist European countries in their individual and collective pursuits of health, equity, and well-being, has resilience as one of the four cross-cutting priority areas for action (i.e., creating resilient communities and supportive environments). More particularly, Health 2020 states that “building resilience is a key factor in protecting and promoting health and well-being at both the individual and community levels”. It specifies that collaboration among policy sectors and the full engagement of civil society are crucial for the development of supportive environments that are instrumental in building and strengthening resilience to improve health and well-being. All three levels for resilience—individual, community, and system—are crucial and especially appropriate for the design of sustainable programs for the control of vector-borne disease.

This Special Issue of The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health will bring together papers encompassing all levels of resilience in relation to vector-borne disease. We welcome papers that address, from any perspective, the incorporation of resilience in health systems for the control of vector-borne diseases and the resilience capacity that can be applied to these levels (i.e. absorptive, adaptive, anticipatory, and transformative).

Assoc. Prof. David Harley
Dr. Elvina Viennet
Assoc. Prof. Craig Williams
Guest Editors

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• vector-borne disease
• resilience
• public health
• individual
• community
• system
• well-being