Agent skill

The Lancet Public Health

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when targeting The Lancet Public Health or deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue.

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Install The Lancet Public Health

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-lancet-public-health -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills the-lancet-public-health --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Clinical-Medicine-Journal-Skills/skills/the-lancet-public-health .claude/skills/the-lancet-public-health && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
the-lancet-public-health
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
788 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when targeting The Lancet Public Health or deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue.

  • Targeting The Lancet Public Health
  • SKILL.md covers Journal positioning, When to trigger, Scope & topic fit and Method & evidence bar, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue

What it does

The Lancet Public Health is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting The Lancet Public Health or deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the population-level intervention, epidemiology, and policy evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Lancet specialty house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Targeting The Lancet Public Health
  • Deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue

Example prompts

  • “/the-lancet-public-health”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

The Lancet Public Health loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 788 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~103
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 788 words, ~2,036 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/the-lancet-public-health/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
the-lancet-public-health
description
Use when targeting The Lancet Public Health or deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the population-level intervention, epidemiology, and policy evidence bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, Lancet specialty house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.

The Lancet Public Health (the-lancet-public-health)

Journal positioning

The Lancet Public Health is a Lancet specialty journal for population and public-health research — population-level interventions, health policy and systems, epidemiology and disease burden, and global-health and health-equity research with population-level relevance. It favors rigorous studies whose unit of interest and consequence is the population, not the individual patient: large-scale epidemiology, policy and natural experiments, modelling with clear public-health decision value, and interventions addressing inequalities or the social determinants of health. The defining misfit is an individual-level clinical study (a drug or device effect in patients) with no population, policy, or equity dimension — that belongs in a clinical journal. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid; it is not clinical or regulatory advice and does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors. Before submitting, re-check the live The Lancet Public Health author instructions.

When to trigger

  • The author names The Lancet Public Health for a population-health, epidemiology, or policy study and wants a fit/framing check.
  • A study must be re-framed around a population-level intervention, burden, or policy question with equity relevance.
  • The author is choosing between The Lancet Public Health, a clinical specialty journal, and general medicine.
  • The author needs the journal's reporting-guideline, registration, and desk-reject expectations for population/policy evidence.

Scope & topic fit

  • Population-level interventions and policy/natural experiments (taxation, regulation, screening programmes, vaccination, public-health service delivery).
  • Epidemiology, disease-burden, surveillance, and risk-factor studies at population scale, including global and comparative analyses.
  • Health-systems, health-services, and health-economics research with population-level decision relevance.
  • Health-equity, social-determinants, and inequalities research with population-level framing and policy implication.
  • Modelling and forecasting studies (transmission, burden, intervention impact) with transparent assumptions and public-health decision value.
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analyses answering a focused population-health or policy question.

Method & evidence bar

  • Studies must have a clear population-level question and an appropriate population denominator; individual-level clinical endpoints alone do not establish public-health relevance.
  • The applicable reporting guideline and completed checklist are expected: STROBE for observational studies, CONSORT (incl. cluster-CONSORT) for trials, PRISMA for reviews, GATHER for global-health estimates, and modelling-reporting standards where relevant.
  • Trials and pre-specified evaluations require prospective registration; protocols and analysis plans are expected, with cluster/stepped-wedge design detail where used.
  • Observational and natural-experiment claims must address confounding, secular trends, ecological bias, and missing data; causal language must match the design.
  • Modelling studies must state assumptions, perform sensitivity/uncertainty analysis, and report data sources transparently; code/data sharing strengthens the submission.
  • Effect estimates need uncertainty intervals and, where relevant, equity-stratified or absolute population-impact measures.

Structure & house style

  • Lancet specialty format with a structured summary and a Research in context / evidence-before-this-study panel; re-check current article types and limits on the live guide.
  • The introduction frames the population-health or policy gap; the discussion states the policy or public-health consequence and limitations plainly.
  • A STROBE/CONSORT/PRISMA flow diagram and (for estimates) GATHER reporting are expected where applicable; tables/figures follow Lancet statistical-reporting standards.
  • The role of the funding source statement and a data-sharing statement are expected; appendices carry protocol/model specification, full methods, and additional analyses.
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Official-submission checklist

  • Before giving submission-ready advice, read ../../resources/source-basis.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the ICMJE/EQUATOR and Lancet anchors, then cite the current The Lancet Public Health page you checked.
  • Search the live site for "The Lancet Public Health information for authors" and follow the current version.
  • Re-check article types, structured-summary and Research in context format, and word/reference/figure limits.
  • Confirm registration where applicable, the reporting checklist (STROBE/CONSORT/PRISMA/GATHER), protocol/model specification, role-of-funding-source, and data/code-sharing statement.
  • Re-check IRB/ethics and consent or data-governance approvals, ICMJE authorship and conflict-of-interest disclosure, funding, and AI-use disclosure.
  • If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.

Pre-submission self-check

  • The study has a genuine population-level question, denominator, and policy/equity consequence.
  • The correct reporting checklist (STROBE/CONSORT/PRISMA/GATHER) is completed and attached.
  • Trials/evaluations are registered where applicable; protocol or model specification is provided.
  • Confounding, secular trends, ecological bias, and missing data are addressed; causal language matches the design.
  • Modelling assumptions, uncertainty, and data sources are transparent; code/data sharing is planned.
  • Ethics/data-governance approvals, ICMJE disclosures, role-of-funding-source, and a data-sharing statement are prepared.

Common desk-reject triggers

  • Individual-level clinical studies with no population, policy, or equity dimension.
  • Small or local descriptive surveys with no generalizable population-health implication.
  • Modelling with opaque assumptions, no sensitivity analysis, or undocumented data sources.
  • Ecological analyses with overstated individual-level causal claims.
  • Missing reporting checklist, registration (where applicable), or data-governance approvals.
  • Narrow scope without international or policy relevance, better suited to a regional or clinical venue.

Re-routing decision

  • Individual-level clinical trial or patient-outcome focus → the relevant clinical specialty journal or general medicine (jama / NEJM / The Lancet in the natural-science bundle).
  • Population mental-health and psychiatric epidemiology dominant → the-lancet-psychiatry.
  • Diabetes/obesity population research with a clinical-metabolic core → the-lancet-diabetes-and-endocrinology.
  • Respiratory population/clinical research with a respiratory endpoint → the-lancet-respiratory-medicine.
  • Cancer epidemiology with a clinical-oncology endpoint → annals-of-oncology / jama-oncology.

Output format

text
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] The Lancet Public Health
[Specialty tags] <2–3 closest population-health/policy/epidemiology topics>
[Study design / reporting guideline] <observational-STROBE / cluster-RCT-CONSORT / review-PRISMA / estimates-GATHER / modelling>
[Method/evidence] <population-level question, denominator, confounding/assumptions — does it clear the policy-relevance bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / registration / checklist / role-of-funding / ethics-data-governance / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Clinical-Medicine-Journal-Skills/skills/the-lancet-public-health of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about The Lancet Public Health

What does The Lancet Public Health do?

A skill your agent uses when targeting The Lancet Public Health or deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue. The Lancet Public Health is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when targeting The Lancet Public Health or deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue.

When should I use The Lancet Public Health?

The Lancet Public Health fits situations like: targeting The Lancet Public Health; deciding whether a population-health study fits this venue.

How do I install The Lancet Public Health in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-lancet-public-health -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Clinical-Medicine-Journal-Skills/skills/the-lancet-public-health in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/the-lancet-public-health in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install The Lancet Public Health in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-lancet-public-health -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Clinical-Medicine-Journal-Skills/skills/the-lancet-public-health in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/the-lancet-public-health in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use The Lancet Public Health in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-lancet-public-health -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/the-lancet-public-health, .gemini/skills/the-lancet-public-health, .github/skills/the-lancet-public-health and .opencode/skills/the-lancet-public-health in your project.

What does The Lancet Public Health need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: The Lancet Public Health is instructions for the agent only.

Does The Lancet Public Health access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is The Lancet Public Health safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does The Lancet Public Health use?

The Lancet Public Health is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does The Lancet Public Health use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains The Lancet Public Health?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.