FYI - 01 Dec 2010 deadline for abstracts on Immigrant and Refugee Health: CES4Health.info, and on-line publication

[Guest guest]

FYI....

Call for Diverse Products of Community-Engaged Projects Focused on

Immigrant and Refugee Health - December 1st Deadline

Do you -- or your faculty, students or community colleagues -- have

products from community-based participatory research, service-learning

or other community-engaged projects focused on immigrant and refugee

health that are in forms other than journal articles?

CES4Health.info is an online mechanism for peer-reviewing, publishing

and disseminating diverse products of community-engaged scholarship

(CES) that are in forms other than journal articles. The results of CES

are often disseminated through diverse products that are accessible and

useful to community members and policy makers, such as photovoice

exhibits, policy briefs, educational videos and podcasts. CES also

often leads to the development of tools that can assist others in

implementing or adapting the project in their communities, such as

assessment instruments, instructional manuals and patient education

materials.

For example, a journal article might present data on the effectiveness

of a community intervention for increasing cervical cancer screening

among Hmong women, but would not provide a detailed description of the

intervention, how it could be implemented elsewhere, how to train

individuals to deliver it, or how to gain the attention of policy makers

who might provide resources to take it to scale state-wide. This sort

of information, however, in the form of products such as resource

guides, training manuals, educational DVDs and policy reports, is

critical to communities that may wish to act upon it.

By disseminating an array of products that have been reviewed and deemed

to be high quality by community and academic peers, CES4Health.info

provides individuals working to improve health in their communities with

accessible, useful information that they typically cannot find in

journals. The first 20 products published through CES4Health.info -

including an educational film about health disparities in post-Katrina

New Orleans and an evidence-based online curriculum for developing

community-based participatory research partnerships - reflect the depth

and breadth of knowledge made possible through community-engaged

scholarship.

CES4Health.info provides authors with a meaningful measure of impact by

tracking how often their product is accessed and how it is used.

Authors can note products in the peer-reviewed publications section of

their curriculum vitae or resume. The Editor also notifies individuals

named by the author (e.g., dean, promotion and tenure committee chair,

supervisor) about the publication and the rigor of the peer review

process.

CES4Health.info is publishing a set of diverse products of

community-engaged scholarship in immigrant and refugee health in Spring

2011. Submissions are due December 1, 2010 and involve completing an

online application and uploading the product or providing a link to it.

Products in English from anywhere in the world will be considered.

For questions about product submission or the appropriateness of a

product, visit the Author Frequently Asked Questions page at

http://www.ces4health.info/faq/author-faq.aspx or contact Editor

Jordan at editor@....

For more information about the development of this unique publication

outlet, read the article CES4Health: Development of a Peer-Review

Mechanism for Disseminating Innovative Products of Community-Engaged

Scholarship appearing in the International Journal of Prevention

Practice and Research.

Please review the attached " call for products " for complete details,

including contact information should you have any questions.

Thanks!

Rahma Osman

Program Assistant

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