''Open Forum Infectious Diseases'' (OFID) is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

open-access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

scientific journal focusing on the field of

infectious disease An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable dise ...

. It is operated by the

Infectious Diseases Society of America The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is a medical association representing physicians, scientists and other health care professionals who specialize in infectious diseases. It was founded in 1963 and is based in Arlington, Virginia. ...

(IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association and published online-only by

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

. The journal was launched in 2014 with infectious disease physician Paul Sax serving as editor-in-chief. In 2023, Roger Bedimo, Chief of Infectious Diseases Section at the VA North Texas Health Care System and Professor of Medicine at the

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas. With approximately 18,800 employees, more than 2,900 full-time faculty, and nearly 4 million outpatient vi ...

in Dallas became editor-in-chief after Sax was appointed editor-in-chief of sister IDSA journal ''

Clinical Infectious Diseases ''Clinical Infectious Diseases'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Oxford University Press covering research on the pathogenesis, clinical investigation, medical microbiology, diagnosis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of diseases ...

''. Initially organized in quarterly issues, the publication expanded to monthly issues in 2018. Since its inception, OFID has also published free podcast interviews with experts in the area of infectious disease.

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Official website

The OFID Podcast
English-language journals Oxford University Press academic journals Publications established in 2014 Microbiology journals Open access journals

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