The New Zealand Journal of Natural Medicine was launched in Auckland on May 7, 2011. Its editors Jonathan Eisen and Katherine Smith have 70 years of editing and publishing experience between them.
Jonathan Eisen is the editor of the New Zealand best seller Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries while Katherine Smith is the editor of a book on organic growing and farming Superfoods: How to Grow Them and Why You Need Them Now (AIT Press) and The Cancer Prevention Handbook (The Full Court Press, 2000). She also trained as a herbalist and maintained a part-time practice for ten years.
The New Zealand Journal of Natural Medicine also has three associate editors:
Lady Carla Davis, MPH
Allison Roe, MBE and
Julie Smith
Lady Carla Davis is a naturopath and author who is a former Nutrition Advisory Board Member for the US health magazine Let’s Live. Lady Davis currently serves as the International Ambassador for the Wildlife Protection Assoc. of Australia (WPAA), a Peace Ambassador for the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and a Global Energy Parliament (GEP) Cabinet Minister for Environment, India.
Allison Roe is best known to New Zealanders as an athlete. However she is also a respected businesswoman who has promoted healthy lifestyles and raised money for health-associated charities.
Julie Smith works with children and young people who have learning disabilities. She is also the founder of the website www.offtheradar.co.nz on the controversy surrounding HPV vaccines
The New Zealand Journal of Natural Medicine will explore a wide range of topics that are relevant to maintaining or regaining good health, including nutrition, herbal medicine, including New Zealand native rongoa, exercise, homoeopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, massage and many other modalities that can make a contribution to improving people’s health. It will also examine environmental and social and issues that impact on health, as well as include information that will allow readers to reduce their risks of developing iatrogenic disease.
The New Zealand Journal of Natural Medicine will be published quarterly.