In this issue we publish the first two in a Series of six articles on mass gatherings health. The remaining articles will be published online, before appearing in print in the February and March, 2012, issues of the journal.The Series has its origins in The Lancet conference on mass gatherings medicine, which took place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2010 (Oct 23-25). The articles in the Series reflect the themes that emerged at that meeting. A consensus view among delegates at the meeting was that mass gatherings health was a better name for the discipline, since ensuring the wellbeing of people at mass gatherings required a far greater range of activities than encompassed by the traditional concept of medicine. Hence the title of our Series. Our thanks go to the expert advisors, Ziad Memish, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Robert Steffen, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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