Progress in Community Health Partnerships (PCHP) “Learning Community for Writing, Dissemination and Reviewing” is a pilot effort aimed at supporting collaborative writing teams and partners, especially community partners interested in building capacity for scholarly writing, on manuscript writing, publishing, disseminating your collaborative research, and peer reviewing. 

PCHP's virtual Webinar Series included these sessions. 

Session 1: Fundamentals of Writing a Scholarly Manuscript, February 15, 2024, 4-5pm (EST)

Session 2: Publishing a Scholarly Manuscript, Continued, March 12, 2024, 4-5pm (EST) with additional Q&A from 5-5:30

Session 3: Preparing a Mixed Methods Research Manuscript, April 17, 2024, 4-5pm (EDT) with additional Q&A from 5-5:30

Upcoming session:

Session 4: The Dialogue Continues, May 16, 2023, 4-5pm (EDT) with additional Q&A from 5-5:30

Register for session 4 here.

Presenters:

• Tabia Akintobi, PhD, MPH, Professor and Chair of Community Health and Preventive Medicine; Associate Dean, Community Engagement; Principal Investigator and Director, Prevention Research Center; Director, Evaluation and Institutional Assessment, Morehouse School of Medicine

• LaShawn M. Hoffman, Chair, Community Development; Civic and Public Health Consultant NPU-V, Morehouse School of Medicine

We are also launching consultations to support partners and collaborative writing teams on their scholarly writing journey via coaching and office hour. Stay tuned for more information!  Questions? Email pchpeditor@gmail.com. 

The Progress in Community Health Partnerships’ (PCHP) editorial team, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, and Morehouse School of Medicine and Prevention Research Center presented for an in-person workshop designed to enhance your partnership’s scholarly writing skills and connect with other community-academic authors at our workshop. 

This in-person gathering took place from 5:00-8:00pm on November 11, 2023 at the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs in Atlanta, GA. Regardless of your skill level with scholarly writing, this workshop offered a platform to guide collaborative writing with multiple authors, share ideas, receive valuable feedback, and collaborate with fellow community-academic researchers.

Participants learned and practiced skills for scholarly writing, collaborative research dissemination, and received additional support from PCHP’s editorial team during all learning community activities. Other activities beyond the workshop included:

• Toolkit

• Follow-up webinars (3-4)

• Coaching and office hours

• PCHP special issue

• PCHP Reflections and Community Perspectives article guidelines for community-author teams

• “Beyond the Manuscript” podcast

Participants learned how to:

1. Explain the importance of writing peer-reviewed manuscripts and the role of peer review in advancing scientific knowledge.

2. Describe the fundamental structure of a manuscript, including the purpose of each section. 

3. Identify resources and opportunities for ongoing learning, networking, and engagement with Progress in Community Health Partnerships (PCHP) and similar platforms dedicated to community health research and partnerships.