Dear SDOH colleagues,

The Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute in conjunction with the WK Kellogg 
Foundation announce the launch of a national peer-reviewed journal dedicated to 
community health partnerships.  Progress in Community Health Partnerships: 
Research, Education, and Action addresses topics focusing on the growing field 
of community-based participatory research (CBPR) while promoting further 
collaboration and elevating the visibility and stature of CBPR as a means 
toward eliminating health disparities.

The mission of the Journal is to facilitate dissemination of programs that use 
community partnerships to improve public health, to promote progress in the 
methods of research and education involving community health partnerships, and 
to stimulate action that will improve the health of people in communities. 
Communities, as defined by the Journal, may be based on geography, shared 
interests, or social networks. The Journal is dedicated to supporting the work 
of community health partnerships that involve ongoing collaboration between 
community representatives and academic or governmental partners.

Articles will include:
*Original research (methods sections must provide details on how community 
partners were involved in the project; community partners of accepted articles 
will be interviewed by a member of the editorial team for a question and answer 
interview that will be published along with the article)
*Works in progress and lessons learned
*Community perspectives
*Policy and practice perspectives
*Theory and methods
*Education and training
*Practical tools
*Systematic reviews
*Invited editorials

The first issue is expected in Spring/Summer 2006. For more information, 
including how to subscribe and how to submit papers, visit the Journal's 
website at http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/pchp

Meet Journal Editor Eric Bass and Deputy Editor Darius Tandon at the 
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health conference on May 31, 2006 in
Mineapolis, MN USA when they will lead a pre-conference institute on
"Practical Guidance for Authors Writing About Community-Based Participatory 
Research."  (see description below).  Registration is limited to 50 
participants.  For more information, visit
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-overview.html

PRE-CONFERENCE INSTITUTE, MAY 31, 2006
Practical Guidance for Authors Writing About
Community-Based Participatory Research

CBPR has an important role to play in improving health and health care, but 
many investigators involved in CBPR have had difficulty getting their work 
published in peer-reviewed journals. Most peer-reviewed health-related journals 
accept only a minority of manuscripts and may have little experience reviewing 
manuscripts about CBPR. As a result, the peer review process may be a 
significant barrier to dissemination of CBPR. Furthermore, academic and 
community partners may struggle to reach agreement on how to write up the 
results of their efforts. Often, the problem in reaching agreement stems from 
an inadequate understanding of what peer reviewed journals expect.

To help academic and community partners overcome these barriers, 
recommendations will be presented and discussed for strengthening manuscripts 
about CBPR studies. The recommendations are based on lessons learned from the 
review of manuscripts that were submitted for publication in a special issue of 
a medical journal. Academic and community partners are encouraged to 
participate in this institute as a co-authorship team.

Objectives

By the end of the institute, participants will be able to:

1. Identify distinguishing features of community-based participatory research 
(CBPR) that should be described in manuscripts submitted for publication in 
peer-reviewed journals

2. Organize and present a report on a CBPR study so that journal editors, 
reviewers, and readers will understand the unique contributions of the study

3. Write clearly and succinctly

4. Anticipate and address concerns that are likely to be raised by journal 
editors and reviewers in the peer review process

Presenters

Eric B. Bass is the former Editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, 
and the current Editor of the the new journal Progress in Community Health 
Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action that is being launched by the 
Johns Hopkins University Urban Health Institute with support from the W. K. 
Kellogg Foundation. He is a general internist and Professor of Medicine, 
Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University.

S. Darius Tandon is the Deputy Editor of the the new journal Progress in
Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action. He is a 
community health psychologist whose research interests focus on the design and 
evaluation of community-based preventive interventions in urban populations. He 
is a Research Associate in the Department of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins 
University, and a Senior Faculty Research Fellow in the Urban Health Institute. 
As a CCPH Fellow during 2002-2003, he developed a CBPR curriculum for 
pediatricians-in-training:
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/2002fellows-tandon.html

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization
that promotes health through partnerships between communities and
higher educational institutions.  Become a member today at www.ccph.info

CCPH is the Higher Education Senior Program Advisor for the Learn and
Serve America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.  Visit the
Clearinghouse at www.servicelearning.org

Join CCPH for our 9th Conference, May 31-June 3, 2006 in Minneapolis, MN!
Register today for 4 days of skill-building, networking & agenda-setting
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