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BCPHR submissions reopens Tuesday, October 22, 2024!

We are the Boston Congress of Public Health Review (BCPHR). We are the official academic journal of the Boston Congress of Public Health (BCPH), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and seeks to improve health equity and social justice globally through the publication of public health content grounded in the thoughtful evaluation of evidence.

BCPHR had its start at Harvard University, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, publishing under the banner Harvard Public Health Review from May 2013 – August 2021 and then as HPHR Journal from September 2021 – September 2024.


Our website URL is BCPHR.org, however, all past web addresses, including HPHR.org and HarvardPublicHealthReview.org will continue to work. All articles published in October 2024 and beyond will published under BCPHR; previously published articles will retain their publication signature under HPHR or Harvard Public Health Review.  

BCPHR
is published by the Boston Congress of Public Health (BCPH), 

 

To this end, BCPHR supports emerging and established investigators producing research in multiple formats: online and print publications, videos, podcasts, ebooks, and more.


BCPHR
seeks content that:

  • Spurs thoughtful and substantive discussion of challenging public health issues

  • Fosters collaboration and diversity across disciplines

  • Integrates ideas and methods

  • Investigates biological, psychosocial, and environmental determinants of health

  • Translates knowledge into action

  • Impacts program and policy decisions and health practices

  • Supports work that advances health equity

Visit BCPHR online at www.BCPHR.org.

BCPHR Announces New Editorial Fellowship!

BCPHR's Editorial Fellowship to Train the Next Generation of Editors and Reviewers

The Boston Congress of Public Health Review (BCPHR), the academic journal of the Boston Congress Public Health (formerly HPHR Journal), introduces the Editorial Fellowship, which seeks to educate aspiring academic journal editors and reviewers to peer review, editing, and publishing. Fellows will collaborate and learn from each other and emerge as skilled editors and reviewers who can recognize and assess quality scientific scholarship and work with authors to develop manuscripts that advance and elevate scientific literature. 

This virtual four-month program grounds fellows in all aspects of the academic publishing process and features the following activities: 

  • In-depth about editorial board roles (Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor, Deputy Editor, Associate Editor, and Reviewer)
  • Diverse trainings, expert panel discussions, and guest lectures.
  • Hands-on engage with individual and group-led peer reviews, submissions management, author communication, and participation in BCPHR editorial meetings.  

The BCPHR Editorial Fellowship is a selective program. To apply, click here and apply as directed by November 7, 2024 (12:00 AM EST). 

For additional details, please visit the
BCPHR and BCPH websites, review the FAQs below, and register for the Editorial Fellowship Q&A Session on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at 1:00 PM EST (10:00 AM PST). 

Watch the Webinar with the GWU Research Team
Who Produced HPHR's Inaugural Supplement!

On August 8, 2024, HPHR/BCPHR released its inaugural supplement, Community-Centered Approaches to Eliminating HIV, PrEP/PEP, and COVID-19 Vaccine Stigma and Discrimination, produced by George Washington University with support from Gilead Sciences. The supplement and all associated articles are available Open-Access on BCPHR.org. You can watch the webinar by clicking the image above or the button below.

About the Supplement:
Preparing the Health Workforce to Support Minoritized Populations
Impacted by Dual Pandemics: HIV in the COVID Era

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare what structural racism looks like in healthcare settings, workplace practices, and living conditions that disproportionately expose Black and brown communities to unfair health outcomes. Racial scholars have urged policymakers to rightfully shift their units of analysis from personal decision-making to the structural inequities that racially and ethnically minoritized communities face. The syndemic interaction between the COVID pandemic with the ongoing HIV pandemic makes visible the role that disparate access to healthcare and the other social determinants of health has on one’s exposure. As such, Gilead Sciences Incorporated funded a national training effort called “Two in One” to equally promote HIV/PrEP screening alongside COVID-19 vaccine screenings in the same primary care setting.

The Two in One Model includes primary research, evidence-informed PCP training, and policy recommendations on the screening guidelines. Our goal for publishing with HPHR Journal is to share a collection of scholarly papers that debunk theories that maintain people as problems as opposed to the conditions they live in as this aligns with the journal’s mission to investigate biological, psychosocial, and environmental determinants of health. While this supplement focuses specifically on HIV and COVID-19 prevention, its theoretical frameworks, methods, research, and policy implications have transferability to a range of other disparate patient outcomes. These papers illustrate how prioritizing the values and realities of the most marginalized groups is a community-centered approach useful for eliminating discrimination and stigma.

Calls for Submissions

SPECIAL NOTE: Submissions are currently closed. They will re-open in Fall 2024.

BCPHR welcomes submissions that speak to the publication’s mission and vision and address timely public health issues through a social justice and health equity lens. BCPHR has released calls for submissions for the editions listed below: 

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Edition 49 – Lesbian HealthEdition 51 – Men’s HealthEdition 55 – Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health
Edition 57 – Indigenous HealthEdition 59 – Gun ViolenceEdition 65 – Terrorism & State Surveillance
Edition 73 – VaccinesEdition 75 – TechnologyEdition 76 – Sexual Health
Edition 78 – AgingEdition 79 – Biodesign & Public HealthEdition 80 – Transplant Justice
Edition 81 – Pulse of JusticeEdition 82 – Cognitive Health & Underserved PopulationsEdition 83 – Gentrification
Edition 84 – Environmental JusticeEdition 86 – Climate Change & HealthEdition 87 – Global Health

Please note that submissions MUST be submitted through our online portal using the appropriate submission template, available here.

Publish Project Research Findings in Weeks!

Organizations and studies are invited to submit supplements with BCPHRSupplements are special collections of manuscripts, including research articles, op-eds, policy papers, notes from the field, and other pieces, related to a research study, intervention, and/or program. Learn more and complete the interest form today

BCPHR Publishes the PRISM Anthology

BCPHR is pleased to announce the release of the anthology PRISM: Mental Health Through the Lens of Difference, edited by Krista L. R. Cezair.

This unique volume leverages unique approaches to examining mental health at the intersection of gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, and migrant status. How do women, members of the LGBTQ+ communities and immigrant/refugee communities, Black and Brown groups, and economically and politically disenfranchised peoples experience mental health, or the lack thereof? In other words, mental health does not occur in a vacuum. The outcomes of mental health are intersectional by their very nature.

With an army of BCPHR public health aficionados and the stewardship of the Boston Congress of Public Health, PRISM explores some of these nuances, delving into the health disparities that exist for these marginalized groups. A greater burden of disease, injury, violence, and truncated opportunities to achieve the apotheosis of health incontrovertibly exists for racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender minorities. There is the proclamation: these often-negative differences in mental health outcomes are not innate or inevitable, coincidental or self-inflicted – but rather systemic, structural, and absolutely preventable. These differences emerge from the flames of ongoing racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and xenophobic discrimination, the scourge of rampant prejudice, and the ever-present bias that intercalate themselves throughout the fabric of society.

HPHR SPECIAL EDITION OF ESSAYS AUTHORED BY BCPH SUMMER INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS

Fellowship Testimonials Presentation (1)

Congratulations to the 2024 Cohort of the Thought Leadership for Public Health Fellowship:

  • Buffy Jamison, MA (Fae/Fem/Faers)
    Educator, Trainer, Consultant

  • Syed Saad Ahmed, MA (He/Him/His)
    Development Communications Professional

  • Joy Belle Imagie-Douglas (She/Her/Hers)
    Graduate Research Assistant

  • Alex Sheehan (He/Him/His)
    Behavioral Health Administrator, Advocate, Public Health Practitioner

  • Sean Jones (He/Him/His)
    MD/MBA Candidate


They will be participating in a series of trainings in anticipation of building a communications platform addressing public health through the lens of equity and justice. Learn more about them here.

Become a BCPHR Editor or Reviewer

BCPHR will be inviting applications for folks interested in joining the editorial board as editors and reviewers. Both editors and reviewers will gain experience that counts towards their Publons account.

 

Click here to apply.

Show Your Support for BCPHR!

Want to find a new way to celebrate publishing with BCPHR or honor public health leadership? Be sure to check out the new store run by the Boston Congress of Public Health, publisher of BCPHR! You can select from our four collections: Boston Congress of Public Health, BCPHR, BCPH Awards, and Our PRIDE! Click to visit