The Journal of Critical Public Health (JCPH) is an academic journal that emerged in a specific context. The background can be traced back to 2021, when members of the editorial board of the internationally renowned peer-reviewed journal Critical Public Health announced their collective resignation in protest of publisher Taylor&Francis' shift to an author pay model and high article processing fees (APCs). This incident has attracted widespread attention from academia and prompted members of the editorial board to decide to independently create a new non-profit open access journal, the Journal of Critical Public Health.

As an emerging academic journal, JCPH has a wide range of research interests in the fields of public, environmental, and occupational health, as well as biomedical and social sciences. It encourages interdisciplinary research, promotes academic innovation, and is committed to advancing the theoretical and practical development in the field of public health. Through JCPH, researchers can share the latest research findings, explore hot issues in the field of public health, and jointly address global public health challenges.