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NIEHS Launch New Twinning Effort with Medical Journals
FIC, NLM, and NIEHS Launch New
Twinning Effort with Medical Journals
FIC, the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences sponsored a workshop that united
editors from the British Medical Journal, The Lancet, JAMA, the
American Journal of Public Health, and Environmental Health
Perspectives with four African medical journal editors from
Ghana, Mali, Malawi, and Uganda. Partnerships have been established
between the Western and African editors. Recommendations regarding
current challenges to publication of quality clinical research work
were also discussed.
The African editors were asked to develop a proposal for a pilot
project funded by Fogarty and NLM to help the journals improve their
quality and content via improved equipment, access to experienced
reviewers, mentoring relationships with the Western journals, and
future training and capacity-building workshops to enhance and improve
editorial expertise, journal content, and publishing issues.
Recent discussions among sponsors and Western journal editors,
including Richard Horton of The Lancet, were held at NIH
to assess the project's progress. The Office of AIDS Research was
present to lend expert advice on how to interconnect NIH investments
in Africa to the project. In addition, it was agreed that the Council
of Science Editors would serve as secretariat of the pilot project.
Sponsors hope eventually to include additional African journals
in the pilot project and expand to other regions of the developing
world.
Did you know...
More than 1.6 million individuals around the world lose their
lives to violence every year. Violence, a leading cause of death
for people aged 15–44, accounts for 14% of deaths among males
and 7% of deaths among females worldwide.
Traffic injuries are responsible for more than 1.17 million deaths
each year and are the world's leading cause of injury. Of this amount,
88% of traffic-related deaths occur in the developing world. The
majority of road traffic injuries occur in southeast Asia. From
very limited data, it is estimated that pedestrians account for
41%–75% of all traffic-related deaths in the developing world.
According to World Health Organization estimates, approximately
1 million people died as a result of suicide in 2000, and 10 million–20
million more attempted suicide worldwide. This represents one death
every 40 seconds and one attempt every 3 seconds. Suicide statistics
from countries where stigma is attached to mental health-related
problems and suicide may not be reliable.
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