Health Promotion Journal of Australia Editors’ Report
August 2008   Volume 19, No 2

Introducing the new Editors
Ben Smith, Helen Keleher and Craig Fry

With this August issue, the editorship of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia is being passed on to a new team. Chris Rissel, Jan Ritchie and Adrian Bauman have done an outstanding job over their six years of service to the Journal, as any reader would appreciate. Among their achievements have been maintaining the quality and relevance of articles, establishing a large group of reviewers, achieving indexing in MEDLINE and other databases, facilitating media coverage to raise the profile of the journal and publishing several excellent theme issues.

As new Editors it is an honour to be following in their footsteps and, indeed, a privilege to have the opportunity to serve the field of health promotion in this way. But, at least some of you may be wondering, who are we? What do we bring to this role? In our first contribution as Editors we would like to introduce ourselves and discuss how we wish to perform this role to ensure that the Journal remains a valuable resource for health promotion in Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

We are a team of three, based in Melbourne, with diverse experience as practitioners, researchers and teachers. Here are a few introductory lines from each of us.