Writing, Dissemination & Reviewer Learning Community for Community-Patient Authors and Reviewers
Upcoming Webinars
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 includes the following sessions.
Session 1: Fundamentals of Writing a Scholarly Manuscript, February 15, 2024, 4-5pm (EST)
Session 3: Preparing a Mixed Methods Research Manuscript, April 17, 2024, 4-5pm (EDT) with additional Q&A from 5-5:30
Register for session 3 here.
Presenters:
Roula Kteily-Hawa, BEd, MPH, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Brescia University College at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Vanessa Vielka de Danzine, PhD, MPH, MPA, Community Based Organization Partners (CBOP-BK), Brooklyn Chapter
Session 4: The Dialogue Continues, May 18, 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.
Previous in-person event
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
Participants learned how to:
Explain the importance of writing peer-reviewed manuscripts and the role of peer review in advancing scientific knowledge.
Describe the fundamental structure of a manuscript, including the purpose of each section.
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.
ABOUT THE WRITING, DISSEMINATION & REVIEWER COMMUNITY
Strengthening the role community-patient partners play in collaborative research and scholarly writing on research and practice is important to address community priorities, advance problem-solving solutions more quickly, and increase the pool and qualifications of health disparity researchers. Although community-patient partners possess incredible intuition on the design and implementation of community health interventions, they may lack knowledge of theory, exposure to research and scholarly publications, or other tools necessary to publish their work. Increasing representation of community-patient partners within peer review journals as authors and reviewers will enhance the quality of health equity research.
This Learning Community workshop will support community-patient-academic partners to develop skills and contribute to academic writing, while also increasing the pipeline of community-patient external reviewers for PCHP and other peer reviewed journals. This event is piloting sustainability of the model within PCHP. Health disparities researchers are excited about its potential to build confidence among multidisciplinary research teams, enhance their contributions, and strengthen collaborative research.
We hope you were able to attend both the inaugural learning community workshop and Session 5072.0 at APHA on Wednesday, November 15 at 10:30am.