Call for Papers: Community Engagement and Population Health From Practice to Evaluation
Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) welcomes submissions for its upcoming collection, "Community Engagement and Population Health From Practice to Evaluation." The burden of chronic disease continues to exact a tremendous impact on populations around the world. Health is shaped by many factors - psychological, physical, environmental, social, and economic - that cannot be improved by one or a few individuals, groups, and organizations. The complexity of what shapes health makes it important to establish and maintain community and the community's engagement to increase supportive opportunities to improve health. Several terms and concepts over the years, such as community mobilization, community-based participatory research, and social engagement, have been used to describe the importance of different aspects of community engagement. Regardless of the terminology or concept, working collaboratively with communities to address factors affecting health is central to ameliorating persistent health challenges.
For this collection, PCD encourages submissions that reflect on how and where engagement has successfully occurred, including the populations engaged and geographical locations, types of partners involved, community engagement strategies used, and advances in measuring community engagement. PCD encourages the submission of manuscripts covering diverse topics using various article types.
The deadline to submit an inquiry is April 26, 2024. Submit your inquiry to the Editor in Chief at PCDeditor@cdc.gov for consideration. PCD will provide feedback to the corresponding author about the journal's interest in the proposed manuscript and guidance on what information is needed.
The full call for papers is available online at https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/announcements.htm#callPHPE
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Lloyd Michener, MD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, Duke School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Public Health Leadership, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
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