In collaboration with the Journal of Public Health (JPH) and the Primary Prevention of War Working Group, the Global Violence Prevention special interest group (SIG) is pleased to invite you to submit papers for a special JPH supplement on the subject of ‘Armed Conflict and Public Health’. All papers included in the supplement will be both free-to-publish and free-to-view online.
The public health impact of armed conflict is a rapidly developing academic field, with widespread interest driven by current events and being expressed across a range of different stakeholders including NGOs, military, political and public community-level groups. The Global Violence Prevention SIG was set up by the Faculty of Public Health in 2016 in order to apply a population health lens to the issue of armed conflict. The organisational relationship between FPH and JPH has raised the possibility of co-producing a special supplement on this timely and important issue.
A prestigious team of guest editors, including Professor Jennifer Leaning of Harvard University, Dr Karl Blanchet of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Dr Mohammed Jawad of Imperial College will be overseeing the content of this supplement, which is expected to be published in August/September 2019.
We encourage the submission of any original articles which take a public health approach to the issue of armed conflict. Topics of interest could include (but are not limited to):
- Health consequences of forced displacement
- Environmental impacts of war
- Social & community cohesion effects of specific conflict(s)
- Public health impacts of different weaponry/tactics
- On-the-ground case studies or perspectives from authors in conflict-affected countries
- Child development in warzones
The deadline for paper submission is 28 February 2019*. Please refer to the JPH information for authors guidance in preparing your manuscript and email submissions to Andrew.Elias@oup.com with the subject ‘Conflict & Health supplement’.
In light of our wish to encourage authorship from conflict-affected countries, it may be possible to arrange for experienced academics to offer either mentorship or co-authorship to potential authors who have first-hand research or perspectives to share. Enquiries about this should be directed to daniel.flecknoe@nhs.net. If English is not your first language then please refer to the OUP guidance and support on academic English.
Written by Dan Flecknoe, FPH member and Chair of FPH’s Global Violence Prevention SIG. You can follow Dan on Twitter @dannyflecknoe.
*Please note that the deadline was extended on 4 February 2019.
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