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 Meetings & Conferences

NCSOPHE Professional Development Committee
Call for presentation proposals from members
Deadline: Ongoing

Send us a 1-page summary with a presentation title, 3-4 learning objectives, description of training methods or seminar theme(s), desired audience (i.e., graduate students, new professionals, mid-level practitioners or all of these), and location (City and County) where you can conduct the workshop/seminar/educational event. Send your presentation proposals to: Norma Martínez-Rubin: Norma@EvaluationFocused.com.

 Journals

Preventing Chronic Disease:
Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy
Deadline: Rolling

This peer-reviewed electronic journal from the CDC was established to provide a forum for public health researchers and practitioners to share study results and practical experience. For information on submitting articles, go to http://www.cdc.gov/PCD/for_authors/index.htm.

Progress in Community Health Partnerships
Research, Education, and Action
Deadline: rolling

This new journal welcomes submissions of manuscripts that deal with any health related application of participatory research and evaluation, along the continuum of research from works in progress through translation into routine practice. Health related applications may include articles on health determinants, health outcomes, health services, health promotion, and diagnosis or treatment of disease. The Journal is particularly interested in studies that seek to improve health or healthcare delivery in underserved communities. MORE INFO: Please visit http://pchp.press.jhu.edu

Local Acts: New Column in Public Health Reports
Deadline: Rolling

Website: http://www.publichealthreports.org/
Public Health Reports is a 128-year-old journal devoted to public health. It is distributed to all members of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). A new column, Local Acts, will showcase the unique ways that local public health departments protect their population and the environment. Local health officials are encouraged to submit manuscripts covering such topics as creative marketing campaigns, targeted legal action under local health codes, unusual agreements with the private sector, and productive collaborations with other local government entities, such as schools.

Health Promotion Practice
Deadline: Ongoing

Sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), HPP publishes authoritative, peer-reviewed articles devoted to the practical application of health promotion and education. The journal publishes the following types of articles and essays:

  • Manuscripts on a variety of topics related to the application of health promotion/health education programs in various, including: innovative linkages between academics/researchers and practitioners; community and/or clinical applications of new or state-of-the-art intervention strategies; policy advocacy and social environmental interventions to promote health; and other applied practice topics.
  • Literature review articles must be comprehensive in nature and go beyond a cursory review of a topic. Specific subject areas of interest include: Program Development, Professional Skills Development and New Contributions to Practice, Administration & Policy , Future Developments in Health Care/Health Promotion.
  • Commentaries on current, timely topics of interest to health promotion and education practice, policy and professional development are encouraged.

Submisssions are accepted on an ongoing basis. For more detailed info, please email the editor (Randy Schwartz, MSPH Editor, Health Promotion Practice) at randy.h.schwartz@state.me.us

Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
(Deadlines: Ongoing)
The CDC’s new journal is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October. They accept manuscripts for publication in the following categories: Original Research Reports (subject to peer review), Editorials, Essays, Letters to the Editor, Reviews, Community Case Studies (subject to peer review), Tools And Techniques: Practical Problem-Solving, Step-By-Step: Making Your Communities Healthier, Book Reviews, and Announcements. For guidelines and further information, visit http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/for_authors/submit_manuscript.htm.

 

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