Calls for Papers

Below is a listing of announcements for calls for papers and calls for presentations that we believe would be of interest to our members and other stakeholders. Announcements are listed by deadline and are updated every two weeks. Recent announcements are indicated with a .

National Summit on Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan: Forging a Shared Agenda - Deadline: December 1, 2009 - Proposals are being accepted for symposia, workshops, individual papers and posters. Acceptable proposals may address theory, research, and/or practice issues related to interpersonal violence and focused on one or more of the conference threads. Symposia will be 90 minutes, and papers should be 20-25 minutes. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference and may be either a half day or a full day (3 or 6 hours). For more information, please visit http://www.reisman-white.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=45

The Quality of Behavioral Healthcare - A Drive for Change Through Research Call for Abstracts - Deadline: December 4, 2009 - Consistent with 2010 conference focus on improving the Quality of Behavioral Healthcare, topical areas of interest for abstract submission include research endeavors focusing on: Implementation of Evidence-based Care; Adaptations of Interventions for Cultural Groups; Quality Measurement: Methods, Measures and Validation; Treatment Access and Engagement; Care Coordination with Primary Healthcare; Efforts to Address Service Disparities; Care Coordination Across Systems; Implementation of Patient-Centered Services; Infrastructure Development to Monitor Quality of Care; Implementation of Processes to Improve Care; Economic Incentives to Improve Quality of Care; Role of MH/Addictions in Healthcare Reform. For more information visit: http://bhsr.fmhi.usf.edu/main.php.

Health Impact Project: Advancing Smarter Policies for Healthier Communities - Deadline: December 15, 2009 - The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, encourages the use of health impact assessment (HIA) to help decision-makers better assess proposed policies, projects and programs with respect to their impact on health, in order that they may avoid adverse health consequences and costs and improve health. This call for proposals is being issued to demonstrate the effectiveness of HIAs and promote their incorporation into local, state, tribal and federal decision-making. For more information, please visit http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfphealthimpactproject2009.pdf

Conference on the Ethics and Politics of Research with Immigrant Populations Proposal Submissions - Deadline: December 21, 2009 - This interdisciplinary conference addresses the question: What are the epistemological and ethical considerations in research with immigrant populations? The purpose of this conference is to engage university and community colleagues and students from a variety of disciplines and interests in consideration of this and other questions about ethics and epistemology in their research practices. For more information about themes addressed by the conference and to submit a proposal, please visit www.cehd.umn.edu/Immigrant-Research

Call for Proposals: Ottawa 2010 Conference on Assessment in the Healthcare Professions - Deadline: December 30, 2009 - The Ottawa 2010 Conference on Assessment in the Healthcare Professions will be held in Miami from 15-20 May 2010. A significant product of the Conference will be the publication of a series of Consensus Statements and Recommendations relating to assessment in the healthcare professions. These will reflect what is seen to be good practice in this area from both a national and an international perspective. As well as looking at assessment more generally, six themes in particular will be addressed: Criteria for a good assessment; Technology-based assessment; Performance assessment; Assessment of professionalism; Assessment for selection for the healthcare professions and specialty training; Research in assessment. Background papers from organizations or individuals with a commitment to assessment in the healthcare professions are invited. These may be in the form of case studies, personal experiences, reports of research work, literature reviews or opinions and viewpoints. For more information, please visit: www.ottawaconference.org.

Social Determinants of Mental Health - Deadline: December 31st, 2009 - Papers are invited from not only mental health professionals, but given the multidimensionality of the social determinants, submissions are also invited from professionals in other fields such as law, public safety, architecture, planning, housing, transportation, environmental sciences, social work, and human rights; and other disciplines such as economics, sociology, political science, demography, criminology, and anthropology. We seek submissions from authors representing the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, as well as those representing local, national, and international bodies. Papers submitted by cross-disciplinary, cross-professional, cross-sectoral teams of authors are especially welcomed. We invite papers that create new knowledge and/or practice innovations. For specifics on submissions, please contact ise@adler.edu.

Call for Papers The Australian Community Psychologist Special Issue on Psychology and Poverty Reduction - Deadline: January 15, 2010 - The first issue of 2010 will be a special issue devoted to community critical psychology approaches to poverty reduction. Contributions by: people with firsthand experience of poverty; poverty activists; members of organizations committed to poverty reduction; as well as papers by academics and researchers, are invited. Contributions which contribute, from a community critical standpoint, towards the development and implementation of practically effective, politically engaged, ideologically progressive reduction or prevention of poverty or which critique the role of acritical psychology and the psy-industry in poverty construction and maintenance are especially welcome. This Special Issue of The Australian Community Psychologist will be one of a large number of Special Issues of Journals around the world which will collectively constitute a Global Special Issue on Psychology & PovertyReduction. Early discussion of possible contributions with the Guest Editor of thisSpecial Issue, David Fryer, is encouraged by emailing him at dafryer@csu.edu.au.

The Social Determinants of Mental Health: From Awareness to Action - Deadline: Ongoing - The Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawai'i cordially invites you to submit a proposal to the 26th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disabilities on April 12th and 13th, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawai'i. In the tradition of Pac Rim, the 2010 conference will revisit familiar themes and explore new directions through scholarship, best practice, and international networking. Join the center, and continue this extraordinary journey. The conference will feature several pre and post conference forums, including the International Forum on the Rights of People with Disabilities, an international film festival, and more. For more information, please visit http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/emailtemplate/callforpapers/.

Call for Diverse Products of Community-Engaged Scholarship - Deadline: Ongoing - CES4Health.info invites submission of diverse products of health-related community-engaged scholarship in English from anywhere in the world - a two-step process that involves completing an online application form and submitting the actual product. Products can include, for example, educational DVDs, training manuals, policy briefs, resource guides and online toolkits. CES4Health.info defines 'health-related' broadly to include, for example, health care, public health, health policy and the social determinants of health - such as education, food security, housing, income and its distribution, and social support. Products submitted to CES4Health.info are peer reviewed by community-based and institution-based experts and if accepted are published and disseminated through the CES4Health.info website. Learn more at http://www.CES4Health.info

Seeking Paper Submissions for a New Research Journal - The Editors of this new journal would appreciate your help in circulating this to colleagues in your organization as an opportunity to publish their research in a flexible way to a wide audience. The Southern Institute of Technology Journal of Applied Research (SITJAR) is published online, papers are double blind refereed by an international panel of reviewers, and publishes papers as soon as they are ready rather than waiting for an issue to be complete: hence papers are continuously published. The editors are seeking submissions from researchers using any methodology including those specific to the performing arts and fine arts, in the area of vocational education and training. Guidelines for authors and other details about SITJAR can be found at http://sitjar.sit.ac.nz.

Call for Contributions to the Prevention Institutes Paper for IOM's Roundtable on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities - Deadline: Ongoing - Prevention Institute is preparing a paper for the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. The paper will focus on what can be done to address inequities at the state, regional and local levels. Sharon Niryce Rodriguez from the Prevention Institute writes: "A specific point that we want to clearly articulate upfront in the paper is why health disparities matter to everyone and affects us all. We want to articulate this point in as compelling a way as possible. We wanted to tap in to all of your best thinking on this question and see how you have most successfully articulated this notion. To stimulate your thinking, so far, we are categorizing the "case for addressing health disparities" into the following 3 main categories: 1. Moral Imperative; 2. Health Imperative (both from a public health perspective and a health systems perspective); 3. Economic Imperative. We welcome your compelling arguments that may or may not fit into these 3 sections." Please email her at: sharon@preventioninstitute.org

International Case Studies in Maternal and Child Health: Call for Submissions - Deadline: Open - Call for submission for a case study book to be titled, "International Case Studies in Maternal and Child Health." Editors are looking for stories of Maternal and Child Health projects of all kinds (community-based, public health, NGO sponsored etc) to be used as case study textbook for health professionals (nurses, docs, midwives, MPH etc) in training and as professional development. For more information, contact Dr. Ruth White at ruthw@seattleu.edu

Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies Call for Papers - Deadline: Open - The Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies (JEAPS) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published that will be monthly by Academic Journals. JEAPS is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject. The journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence, and will publish: Original articles in basic and applied research; case studies; critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays. We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) to JEAPS@acadjourn.org for publication in the Maiden Issue (April 2009). For more information, visit: http://www.academicjournals.org/JEAPS/Instruction.htm

16th Annual Canadian Conference on International Health Call for Abstracts - Deadline: Open - The 2009 Conference theme is "Health Equity: Our Global Responsibility. It will be held October 25-28, 2009 in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. The Conference will examine inequities of health status, and the impact on the health of marginalized, vulnerable and Indigenous populations of changing environments, whether these changes are due to climate, technology, the economy or threats to human security. Presentations exploring lessons learned and new ways of understanding health equity and social justice locally, nationally and globally areinvited. For more information, visit: http://www.csih.org/en/ccih/index.asp

Call for Materials: Promoting Oral Health in Schools - Deadline: Open - The National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center is producing a resource guide focusing on oral health promotion and prevention in schools for children and adolescents (grades K-12). Descriptions of journal articles, materials, and organizations that can serve as additional resources will be included in the guide. What works in schools? Please send us materials that address oral health in the context of schools that would be helpful to others, for example: Protocols for oral health screening, including baseline data or surveillance reports using the Basic Screening Survey; Protocols for dental sealant or fluoride varnish application; Forms for school entrance requirements that include oral health examinations; Comprehensive school health education curricula frameworks; State academic standards for health education; Pre-service and in-service manuals for training school personnel (administrators, teachers, coaches); Research on the relationship between oral health and learning; Policies and guidelines such as vending machines in schools, tobacco prevention, injury prevention and school wellness. For more information, visit: http://www.mchoralhealth.org/CFM.html

Call for Articles for Health and Human Rights - Deadline: Varies - Health and Human Rights is seeking articles for future issues. Accepted contributions will be published in the journal's open access electronic and print versions. Articles are invited for Critical Concepts and for Health and Human Rights in Practice. Upcoming issues will focus on three distinct themes: participation, non-discrimination and equality, and international assistance and cooperation. For information, visit: http://www.hhrjournal.org/index.php/hhr/about/submissions

Call for Papers for Journal of Environmental and Public Health -Deadline: Open - The "Journal of Environmental and Public Health," provides a rapid forum for the dissemination of research articles, clinical studies, case reports as well as review articles in all areas of environmental and public health. The Journal is published using an open access publication model, meaning that all interested readers are able to freely access the journal online without the need for a subscription. Moreover, articles published in the journal will be made available on PubMed Central, and indexed in PubMed, at the time of publication. Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal online at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/. If you have questions about the journal, contact Mahmoud Salah, Editor, Journal of Environmental and Public Health at jeph@hindawi.com

Team Based Learning in Higher Education Call for Proposal Abstracts- Deadline: Varies (see below) - The 8th Annual Conference on Team Based Learning in Higher Education will be March 5-6, 2009 at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. This year's meeting will be historic as this year the Team-Based Learning Collaborative officially expands its charter to become fully interdisciplinary. You are invited to submit proposal abstracts on any topics relevant to team based learning. We are asking for 3 different types of abstracts: 1) Interactive Workshop Abstracts due October 1; 2) Oral Presentation Abstracts due November 1; 3) Poster Abstracts due January 1. Instructions for abstract submission are available at: http://www.utexas.edu/academic/diia/teambased/

Call for Volunteer Consultants - Deadline: None-The American Psychological Association's (APA) Office on AIDS is currently recruiting volunteer consultants to support its Behavioral and Social Science Volunteer (BSSV) Program. The program's purpose is to improve the capacity of community based organizations (CBOs), health departments (HDs), and community planning groups (CPGs) to design, adapt and/or evaluate effective HIV prevention interventions for communities of color. While HIV prevention staff of CBOs and HDs are working diligently to end the epidemic, local psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, social workers and public health experts are needed to team up with these providers and share their expertise to ensure that programs are scientifically sound and culturally competent. For more information please contact Shauna Cooper at scooper@apa.org or 202-336-6176.

Call for Papers: Action Research in Health and Ageing - Deadline: No Deadline- The International Journal of Health and Ageing Management (IJHAM) is looking to publish action research related papers in health and ageing. This journal is a double blind peer reviewed online journal published by Academic Global Publications Pty Ltd. The aim of The International Journal of Health & Ageing Management is to disseminate knowledge generated by academics, practitioners and researchers regarding management issues related to health, healthcare, ageing and aged care at societal, organizational and individual levels. The journal aims at an audience that includes Academics, Practitioners of the health and aged care industry, Policy Makers, Researcher and Students. Papers should be submitted to: ed_ijham@academicglobalpublications.com or Shankar.Sankaran@uts.edu.au

Call for Proposals: 19th Annual Art and Science of Health Promotion Conference - Deadline: Various -Proposals are welcome that describe systematic reviews, benchmarking studies, expert panel finding, and consensus statements on the most effective methods to enhance and retain participation, achieve and maintain weight loss, quit smoking, enhance fitness, improve nutrition, enhance productivity, contain medical costs increases, apply incentives and achieve other critical outcomes in health promotion. Visit http://www.healthpromotionconference.org/Call_for_proposals.htm for full detail and deadlines.

Call for Papers: The Australian Community Psychologist - Deadline: None specified - The Australian Community Psychologist (ACP) is a peer reviewed journal that publishes work that is of relevance to community psychologists and others interested in the field. Research reports should be methodologically sound. Theoretical or area review papers are welcomed, as are letters, brief reports and papers by newer contributors to the discipline. Contributions towards the four sections of the journal are sought. ACP is published twice per year. Usually, the first issue is a themed issue, and the second is a general issue. For more information, please contact the editor Dawn Darlaston-Jones at ddarlaston-jones@nd.edu.au

Call for Articles: Communication or Relationships in Healthcare - Deadline: Multiple - Medical Encounter is an academic journal of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare that publishes scholarly and artistic works relating to relationships in healthcare. Medical Encounter reaches patients, practitioners, teachers, researchers, policymakers and leaders in the healthcare environment. Publishing in Medical Encounter is a great way to get early exposure for your work and ideas, and can lend credibility to subsequent efforts at funding and publication. http://www.aachonline.org/publications/medicalencounter

Call for Narratives: Reflective Practice - Deadline: Multiple - Patient Education and Counseling, an international journal, publishes selected narratives on reflective practice. Reflective Practice provides a voice for physicians and other healthcare providers, patients and their family members, trainees and medical educators. The title emphasizes the importance of reflection in our learning and how our patient care and own self- care can be improved through reflective practice, similar to other health care provider skills. http://ees.elsevier.com/pec

Katrina Issue of Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy - Deadline: Open - Your help requested in identifying researchers who are working in areas hit by hurricanes Katrina or Rita. In the closing paper on the Katrina issue of Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP), Janet Ruscher (special issue co-editor) and Geoff Maruyama, editor, noted two points where their issue fell short: (1) there were many issues still unresolved, and so the issue was out too soon to see if and how those issues were resolved and how psychology and social science research contributed to the resolutions; and (2) they hadn't gotten any papers submitted from people who were "on the ground" in the New Orleans area when the hurricanes hit, and who could follow a sample through the dislocation and recovery process. Given the slowness in recovery, some samples may still have a ways to go before their lives are back to pre-Katrina stability. So, ASAP is soliciting papers for a sequel, "Katrina II." http://www.asap-spssi.org/

Calls for Papers: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - Deadline: Open - Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology seeks to publish theoretical, conceptual, research and case study articles that promote the development of knowledge and understanding, application of psychological principles, and scholarly analysis of social-political forces affecting racial/ethnic minorities. http://www.apa.org/journals/cdp/

Call for Articles: Journal of Ambulatory Care Management (JACM) – Deadline: ongoing – JACM is a peer-reviewed, topical journal. Authors are encouraged to submit to JACM articles that focus on the concerns of today's active ambulatory care manager. In addition to topical articles, JACM seeks manuscripts dealing with a variety of subjects that have current or future importance to health care managers and policy makers, including innovative interventions to eliminate disparities. nigoldfield@mmm.com

Call for Participation: Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development – Deadline: Various – The Council of Science Editors is organizing a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development in October 2007. Science journals throughout the world will simultaneously publish papers on this topic of worldwide interest - to raise awareness, stimulate interest, and stimulate research into poverty and human development. This is an international collaboration with journals from developed and developing countries. All science journals are invited to participate in the Global Theme Issue. Representatives of interested journals should send an e-mail to the attention of Annette Flanagin at jeni.reiling@jama-archives.org. http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/globalthemeissue.cfm

Call for Stories & Case Studies: Global Health Watch 2007-2008 – Deadline: TBA – Global Health Watch is looking for submissions of local country or region-specific case studies and testimonies. These case studies and testimonies will form part of the electronic accompaniment to the development of the Watch and in some cases may also appear in the electronic or print edition of GHW 2007-2008, due to be launched in early 2008. For more information, contact ghw@hst.org.za

Call for Abstracts-Journal of Multi-Cultural Nursing and Health – Deadline: Spring 2006 – Manuscripts are requested for summer 2006 edition of this peer reviewed journal issue on this special topic: "International Oncological Issues in Nursing and Cancer Patient Care.” Guidelines for authors can be found at http://www2.cecomet.net/eestar/jmcnh. For more information, contact Celeste Baldwin at cbaldwin@hhsc.org.

Call for Papers: Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement – Deadline: ongoing – The Journal is a scholarly peer-reviewed and freely accessible on-line interdisciplinary journal providing a forum for scholars and writers from diverse fields who share a common interest in Southeast Asian Americans and communities. For more information, visit http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/grants/jsaaea/submissions.htm

Call for Papers: Academic Exchange Extra, a Monthly Peer-Reviewed On-Line Forum - Deadline: Ongoing - Submissions are invited from undergraduates, graduates, and educators. AEE presents ideas, research methods, and pedagogical theories leading to effective instruction and learning regardless of level, subject or context. They also seek cogent essays, poetry and fiction. Contact Elizabeth Haller at editoraee@hotmail.com with questions. http://asstudents.unco.edu/students/AE-Extra/index.html

Call for Papers for the National Civic Review - Deadline: Ongoing - The journal publishes essays and reports written by civic activists, community practitioners, theorists, and scholars in the fields of public administration, community building, political reform, government, and social problem solving. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/104087678/ForAuthors.html

Call for Papers for COMM-ORG - Deadline: Ongoing - COMM-ORG is the On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development. Are you writing a paper, thesis, or dissertation on: community organizing, community development, community planning, community-based research, and/or a related area? COMM-ORG is looking for papers to post on the COMM-ORG Papers page. To submit a paper, contact the editor, Randy Stoecker at randy@comm-org.utoledo.edu. You can also find out more by visiting http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/callpapers.htm.

Call for Papers: Book About Death & Choice – The editors of the book (tentatively titled: Exit Freely: Men and Women Write About Death and Choice) are looking for a range of personal and analytic pieces examining the topic of choice in dying, just as writings emerging out of the women’s movement examined choice in reproduction. The editors want many voices represented in this collection. They are also interested in analytic contributions from the legal, political, ethical, religious, medical, and historical perspective on the issue of choice in dying. For more information, contact dperry2000@aol.com