Just received this note from the National Center for Health Marketing at the CDC:
We want to inform you of an exciting opportunity to publish in a special issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) focused on health communication and social marketing in public health.
For this special journal issue, we are looking for conceptual papers on the theories and methods of health communication and social marketing as well as papers describing original, research-based, methodologically sound health communication and social marketing public health campaigns, interventions, policies and/or evaluation. Papers should provide empirical data to support article assertions or be framed as in-depth case studies.
Unfortunately, this opportunity comes with an accelerated timeline (initial submission due in about 4 weeks). Therefore, we are only interested in manuscripts completed or close to completion. If you have such work and are interested in having it considered for the AJPH special issue, please send an abstract or a draft, and a letter of intent by Friday, September 26, 2008 to Dr. Dawn Griffin ([email protected]). If you know of another leading scholar in the area who may have a manuscript in the works, please provide his/her contact information so we can share this opportunity with him/her. Detailed information and article guidelines will be forwarded to you directly.
We are also looking for peer reviewers for this issue. If you are interested or know of a colleague who might be interested in serving as a peer reviewer, please let us know.
This is a unique opportunity to contribute articles and/or expertise from your work to one of the most prestigious public health journals. I won't say a 'once in a lifetime chance' ... but it is the first one. There was a time when the editor of AJPH would not let me use the term 'social marketing' in an article we submitted on food labeling in grocery stores from the Pawtucket Heart Health Program. Times do change!
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