Author Resources

As a service to the readership of the American Journal of Public Health (Journal) and the membership of the American Public Health Association (Association), the editors and editorial board of the Journal are committed to providing education and outreach opportunities around peer-reviewed publication.

Writing and reviewing guidance for peer-reviewed journals.

• Essential Tensions in the Journal
• Why Should I Review a Paper for the AJPH
• The Importance of Accuracy
• Statistics in the Journal - significance, confidence and all that
• A knowledge base for Public Health Policies
• Public Health E-mentoring: an investment for the next millennium
• APHA offers new educational opportunities
• Toward a better educated Public Health Workforce
• The Professions of Public Health
• Editorial Independence at the Journal

The articles present examples that encompass public health policy, practice, and implications for the field.

• Education of Public Health Professionals
• The Past and Future of Public Health Practice
• Public Health Practice and the Journal
• Human Rights: the foundation of Public Health Practice
• Coming Together to Enhance Public Health
• Social Issues as Public Health: promise and peril
• Elections and Public Health
• "Regularizing" Public Health Practitioners
• Strengthening the Evidence Base for Public Health
• Educating Public Health Workforce

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The articles listed here detail challenging human rights and ethical issues for public health.

• Human Rights and Ethics in Public Health
• Ethics in Public Health Research: Masters of Marketing: Bringing Private Sector Skills To Public Health Partnerships
• A Code of Ethics for Public Health
• Ethics in Public Health Research: A Research Protocol to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Public-Private Partnerships as a Means to Improve Health and Welfare Systems Worldwide
• An Ethics Framework for Public Health
• Ethics, Practice and Research in Public Health
• Genomics and the Public Health Code of Ethics
• The Challenges and Opportunities of Ethics
• Ethics in Public Health Institutions

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The articles listed here encompass an array of models that demonstrate diversity in research and evaluation practice.

• A Community research model: a challenge to public health
• The Public Health Workforce: key to public health infrastructure
• Reassessing the role of epidemiology in public health
• A Societal Outcomes Map for Health Research and Policy
• Using Surveillance Data to Develop and Disseminate Local Childhood Lead Poisoning Screening
• Recommendations: Miami--Dade County's Experience
• Health Services Research Tools for Public Health Professionals
• Evaluation and Public Health
• Applying Popular Health Models
• Attacks on Science: The Risks to Evidence-based Policy
• Public Health Advocacy: Process and Product

The articles listed here feature outstanding examples of diverse AJPH formats for use in modeling submitted work.

• The need for mentoring in public health
• Why "public health matters"
• It's time we became a profession
• Principled Professionalism: The American Face of Public Health, Dr. Mohammad Akhter (Faces of Public Health)
• One World: Global Health (Editorial)
• Editor's Note: The Power of Pictures (Editorial)
• Conceptualizing and Defining Public Health Emergency Preparedness
• The Second Wave Will Drown Us (Going Public)
• Prepared to Serve Public Health

A collection of Powerpoint presentations

• Practice - How to Present the Evidence
• Promoting Practice In the Journal - Joint Sponsored Session by the Editorial Board and Editors
• Publishing Public Health Policy: A Snapshot
• Health Without Borders - Editorial Team Joint Session
• From Poster and/or Presentation to Paper: How Do We Get Through the Process?
• Writing Ethics / Writing Rights