Call for Papers - Theme Journal Issue on the "Science of Community Engagement" - Aug 1 Deadline

[Announcement from CBPR listserv]

Dear CBPR colleagues,

The journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research,
Education, & Action, has released a call for papers for a theme issue
on the "Science of Community Engagement." (attached). The issue's goal is
to highlight concepts that form the foundation for assessing the impact
of community engagement across all forms of research conducted with the
intention of improving the health of those same communities. They are
particularly interested in augmenting concepts and definitions with
rigorous empirical studies that elucidate, operationalize and/or assess
community engaged research, and the contribution (potential and actual)
of community engaged research to comparative effectiveness research.

The following topics are of high priority for this issue:
1) Developing shared approaches to measuring aspects of the impact of
different types of community engaged research on improving health
outcomes, as well as spreading and sustaining effective practices;
2) The unique contributions of community engaged research to better
understand the effect of context and heterogeneity in comparative
effectiveness research;
3) Articulating the role of community engagement for conducting
comparative effectiveness research and for informing policy;
4) Identifying common contextual variables and parameters that facilitate
comparison and contribute to dissemination and implementation research;
and
5) Recognizing, documenting and addressing community benefits, needs,
risks, and other ethical issues associated with collaborative
community-based research activities.
6) Examples of well-designed research for translating interventions across
different communities, including a means for evaluating the translational
process between community interventions, and documenting the impact of
community engagement on several dimensions, including the research process
(eg., recruitment), health care service delivery (eg., uptake of clinical
innovations) and population health outcomes (measures of morbidity and
mortality).

The deadline for submitting papers is Monday, August 1, 2011.

Instructions for specific types of articles and submitting manuscripts can
be found at http://bit.ly/igttbh

Also... did you know that CCPH members receive a substantial discount on
subscriptions to Progress in Community Health Partnerships?  Learn more at
http://bit.ly/bObC6S  - if you have questions about CCPH membership, email
us at membership@ccph.info

Thanks!

Rahma Osman
Program Assistant

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