Dear colleagues in Canada,

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a proud organizational 
partner of this new journal.  Editor-in-Chief Carmen Patrick is a member of the 
CCPH board of directors.  The journal is seeking contributions from 
graduate-level students of any discipline who are enrolled in universities and 
colleges across the United States and Canada. Please share the details and call 
for papers below with your students and encourage them to get involved as 
authors and readers!

Health Students Taking Action Together has announced the launch of Context, the 
only peer-reviewed electronic journal for health professional students engaged 
in their communities. The journal will connect students across the United 
States and Canada working to improve the health of our communities.  In 
addition, the journal will recognize insightful, well-designed evaluations of 
student initiated programs from a variety of perspectives. Context will be 
published by HealthSTAT in partnership with the Student Health Alliance. The 
online journal is accepting submissions and will accept rolling applications 
for editors and peer reviewers.  Context will begin publication April 2006.

The first issue of Context ( www.contextjournal.org) will include original 
articles about program evaluation, policy research, patient empowerment and 
community-based research and partnerships. Contributors will include 
graduate-level students of any discipline who are enrolled in universities and 
colleges across the United States and Canada.

"Context provides a forum for presentation and consideration of health science 
student community activities and best practices. Context will make the latest 
research accessible to health professional students and others who can put it 
to work and improve Americans' health," comments HealthSTAT Advisor, Dr. 
Jeffrey Koplan, MD MPH Vice President for Academic Health Affairs, Emory 
University and former CDC Director.

Graduate-level students may submit manuscripts online at 
www.contextjournal.org. Manuscripts will be accepted on a rolling basis; 
however, only those received by January 31, 2006 are guaranteed consideration 
for publication in the inaugural edition of Context Journal.

A rigorous peer review process will help ensure that articles meet high 
standards in terms of theoretical and methodological rigor. As an open access 
journal, Context will offer the health professional community the opportunity 
to make research results freely available immediately on publication, and 
permanently available in public archives. Subscribers to Context will benefit 
from the e-journal's multimedia capabilities and all articles and transcripts 
will be available for download.   The journal will be published bi-annually. To 
submit a manuscript or to sign up for a free subscription, visit 
www.contextjournal.org

Context will connect students across the United States and Canada. This 
e-journal provides a unique opportunity for students to share results and ideas 
with health professionals to improve the health of our communities," said 
Carmen Patrick, Emory University medical student, Founding Editor-in-Chief of 
Context and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health board member.

The inaugural Editorial Board of Context Journal includes six health 
professional students representing four disciplines and six institutions: 
Carmen Patrick, Editor-in-Chief, Emory University School of Medicine; Hugo 
Javier Aparicio, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Euna M. August, 
MPH, University of South Florida (USF), PhD candidate, Department of Community 
& Family Health; John R. Casey, Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic 
Medicine; Cheryl Hunchak, M.D. Harvard School of Public Health, MPH candidate 
Department of International Health; Pamela Valera, MSW, University of South 
Carolina, PhD candidate College of Social Work.

Funding for Context has been provided by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 
The Marcus Foundation, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, The Young Family 
Foundation, Emory University, the National Nurses Association and numerous 
individual donors.

HealthSTAT (www.hstatweb.org)  is a Georgia based, inter-professional, 
student-led, non-profit organization founded in 2001 to increase civic 
engagement among health professional students and develop emerging health 
leaders.

The Student Health Alliance (http://www.phsc.org/sha.html )(SHA) is a 
multidisciplinary coalition of students dedicated to improving the health of 
our communities and the effectiveness of our health system by fostering and 
promoting collaborative work focusing on prevention and achieving our Nation's 
health objectives.

CALL FOR PAPERS

December 2005

Context the journal recognizing student health professionals engaged in their 
communities seeks original student papers to be published in its inaugural 
issue in April 2006.

Context Journal (www.contextjournal.org) is the nation's first student-run, 
online, peer-reviewed journal that highlights the exceptional work of health 
students in the community. Context publishes the work of graduate-level 
students across the United States and Canada who strive to improve the health 
of our communities in a variety of modalities including: policy research, 
program evaluation, community partnership, and patient empowerment.

The journal seeks papers that address health issues confronted by students in 
their communities such as:

Reflections on how community service, patient advocacy, or participatory 
research impact growing health professionals personally and professionally

Best Practices leaving a "road map" behind for students addressing similar 
health issues who may learn from those that came before rather than redesigning 
the wheel

Program Evaluations that hold standards to community work so that it may become 
ever more refined, measurably successful, and prestigious

Curricular Reform Descriptions proposing or describing changes to formal 
curricula that incorporate the community

Analysis of Policy (real or proposed) identifying key barriers to change and 
implications of such policies for communities

Papers are accepted on a rolling-basis. To submit your paper, please go to 
www.contextjournal.org and read the submission guidelines within the About Us 
Section. Please note that papers submitted by January 31, 2006 are guaranteed 
consideration for publication in the Inaugural Issue of Context.

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