Collection Type: Special Issues

The PLOS ONE editors, together with guest editors Auroop Ganguly, Renata Libonati, Janna Metzler, and Markus Ries, present a collection of papers on the topic of prediction and mitigation of natural…

Over the next four decades, virtually all global population growth will occur in cities. Urbanization results from natural population increases among city dwellers, rural-to-urban migration, and…

In this PLOS Medicine Special Issue, we present a fascinating array of research papers which provide insights into various facets of mental health during the pandemic. Key themes include increases in…

In 2000, the UN adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were intended to address key determinants of human health and welfare, including poverty, hunger, and disease. One of the MDGs…

Public health and the welfare of the ecosystems that sustain us depend on understanding how global climate change will affect the dynamics and distribution of pathogens and their plant and animal…

The Starworms (STop Anthelminthic Resistant WORMS) project aims to strengthen the monitoring and surveillance of drug efficacy and anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminth control…

In many parts of the world maternal and child health outcomes are increasingly impacted by indirect causes, many of which are related to nutrition. Women with diabetes, anemia or who are overweight…

The publication of negative, null and inconclusive results is important to provide scientists with balanced information and avoid the duplication of efforts testing similar hypotheses, which waste…