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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