Eighth Active Living Research Annual Conference
Call for Abstracts
Deadline: August 6, 2010
The eighth Active Living Research Annual Conference, which
is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will
be February
22-24, 2011 at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego
in downtown San Diego, CA. The theme for the 2011 conference
is Partnerships for Progress in Active Living: From Research
to Action,
which recognizes the importance of engaging experts from
multiple disciplines to address critical public health
issues, especially active living and obesity. DETAILS: http://www.activelivingresearch.org/conference/2011/cfa2011
National Association of Chronic
Disease Directors (NACDD)
Call for Proposal for Educational Programming
Deadline: Not available
The National Association of Chronic Disease
Directors (NACDD) invites your
submission of a proposal for educational programming
for the NACDD 2010
Chronic Disease Academy. The Academy will be presented
February 17 – 19,
2010 in Orlando, Florida. With no more than 400
total participants, the
Academy will be focused on skill-building training
activities. For
information please contact Marcia Noble at mnoble@chronicdisease.org
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.
Health Promotion Practice Journal
SOPHE Journal Call for Papers
Deadline: September 30, 2010
HPP will publish a theme
issue highlighting successful technical assistance and
training
models to
support and
sustain the reduction in tobacco use in the U.S. Click
here for details (PDF).
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.
