Berita Kedokteran Masyarakat (BKM) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Master Program in Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing (FK-KMK), Universitas Gadjah Mada. BKM occupies a distinct niche at the intersection of implementation science, health systems thinking, and community-embedded public health research, with a focus on resource-constrained, socio-culturally diverse, and epidemiologically transitioning settings across Southeast Asia.

Unlike journals centered on biomedical discovery or clinical outcomes, BKM foregrounds the translation of evidence into action — publishing research that interrogates how and under what conditions public health interventions succeed in real-world settings. We are especially interested in research that is directly actionable by local governments, primary health care networks, and community health workers.

Thematic Scope
BKM welcomes original research articles, systematic and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, and methodological papers across five priority areas:

Community health care — delivery, access, equity, and quality of health services at the community level, including primary care and puskesmas-based research

Community medicine — health promotion, disease prevention, and the social determinants shaping health within defined populations

Preventive medicine — epidemiological studies, screening, immunization, and early intervention strategies relevant to regional disease burdens

Health system evaluation — governance, financing, workforce, and implementation science examining how health systems perform and adapt

Population health — surveillance, burden of disease, health transitions, and equity analyses at district, national, and regional levels

Geographic Scope
BKM maintains a strategic focus on Southeast Asia but welcomes submissions from other regions when they offer comparative insights, transferable methodologies, or evidence directly applicable to the regional health ecosystem.

BKM aspires to be the journal of record for researchers and practitioners working at the front lines of public health in Southeast Asia — rigorous enough for the academy, relevant enough for the field.