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jHASE ☼ Journal of HIV/AIDS Surveillance &
Epidemiology
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Peer Review
Fellowship Description, Learning Activities and Objectives |
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Background & Rationale of the Peer Review
Fellowship: |
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The peer review process of the journal jHASE
(Journal of HIV/AIDS Surveillance & Epidemiology) is founded on the
Institute of HIV/AIDS Surveillance & Epidemiology (iHASE) preceptorship
model and philosophy which propounds the notion that rigorous peer review of
seminal field-advancing works of science should include both experienced
published researchers and mentored junior peer reviewers or peer review
fellows (junior or mid-level researchers, post-doctoral fellows and doctoral
candidates as peer-review fellows/trainees). In a manner similar to the
science and medicine post-doctoral training model (or law clerkships in the
court system), this approach provides an opportunity for preceptorship/
mentored training of junior peer reviewers who assist in literature reviews,
critique and rigorous peer review in the search for excellence through open
debates in the proceedings of the Institute of HIV/AIDS Surveillance and
Epidemiology (i.e. open public health discourse, debates and constructive
criticism as a vehicle for advancement of public health surveillance and
applied Epidemiology research on HIV/AIDS and related STDs, Viral Hepatitis
and TB). Further, jHASE strongly believes that mentored peer review fellows
should contribute to every stage of the process of quality assurance,
training and continuing education through peer-review and
publication/dissemination of HIV/AIDS Surveillance & Epidemiology work,
including all levels of the proceedings of the Institutes of HIV/AIDS
Surveillance & Epidemiology. |
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Fellowship
Description:
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Using
a preceptorship model, the jHASE fellowship offers a
unique opportunity for:
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- Fellows to acquire high quality mentored applied
HIV Epidemiology training in conducting applied HIV
Epidemiology quality assurance and continuing education through
peer review, and
- Providing public health agencies with
expertise, technical support, quality assurance and rigorous program peer
review;
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Fellows collaborate with iHASE/jHASE fellowship preceptor faculty [jHASE
Section Editors, a public health
agency preceptor, and an academic preceptor]
to identify relevant project
topics to fulfill the fellowship objectives and learning activities on
development of protocols, proposal abstracts and manuscripts. Through
practical learning activities to fulfill the fellowship objectives/core
curriculum in collaboration with public health practice and academic preceptors, fellows will develop the comprehensive set of competency- and
problem-based core skills in applied HIV Epidemiology methods outlined in
the iHASE applied HIV Epidemiology curriculum.
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Applied/Practical Learning Activities
and Objectives:
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During
the fellowship [short-term (1 semester/12 weeks) and long-term (>1 year)],
fellows will participate in the following learning activities:
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- Conduct intake review of articles submitted
to jHASE for peer review, develop and submit recommendations to the
relevant jHASE Section Editor on suitability of articles for peer review
and publication in jHASE;
- Under the preceptorship of (long term)
senior peer review fellows, junior peer review fellows will review relevant literature for each
assigned article peer-reviewed for publication, critique
article/protocol (including ethics review), summarize relevant findings
from literature, develop, consolidate and submit fellows'
recommendations to the relevant jHASE Section Editor for consideration;
- In collaboration with assigned fellows
group, fellows will consolidate peer review reports and recommendations
of senior peer reviewers and submit recommendations to jHASE Section
Editor for review;
- In the event of strong disagreement
between fellows' recommendations and those of external peer reviewers,
fellows will develop and consolidate requests for clarification of areas
of differences from peer reviewers through the relevant jHASE Section
Editor;
- Ethics aspects of peer review of research
and public health practice/interventions protocols will
also include:
- Review of the ethical implications of
research study design and conduct;
- Review of the ethical implications of
intervention program implementation;
- In collaboration with 2 preceptors from a
public health agency and an appropriate academic institution, fellows
will develop at least 1 manuscript (as first author) for
peer review and publication in jHASE in any 1 of the following 4
categories of jHASE article types: a) a review article, b) a methods
protocol of study procedures, c) a methods protocol of statistical
analyses (including relevant statistical analyses programs), or d) a
research article;
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Under
the preceptorship of the relevant jHASE Section Editor(s), fellows will
participate in jHASE peer review of manuscripts, pre- or post-IRB/ethics
review of protocols and serve as Editorial Board members of jHASE;
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After completing this fellowship, long-term
fellows will have also participated in the following learning activities:
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- In collaboration with 2 preceptors from a
public health agency and an appropriate academic institution, review
relevant published literature from jHASE, other journals and sources,
and identify, conceptualize and submit at least 4 article proposal
abstracts (as first author) for peer-review and publication in jHASE:
i.e. a) at least 2 proposal abstracts for new studies/articles to
address gaps in knowledge, and b) 2 proposal abstracts for commissioned
companion-papers of study procedures and analyses methods protocols
corresponding to published work (including developing corresponding
applications for funding of commissioned work for submission through
jHASE to external funding sources);
- In collaboration with 2 preceptors (1 from a
public health agency and the other from an appropriate academic
institution), develop at
least 4 commissioned manuscripts (as first author) for peer review and
publication in jHASE in each of the following 4 categories of jHASE
article types: a) a review article, b) a methods protocol of study
procedures, c) a methods protocol of statistical analyses (including
relevant statistical analyses programs), and d) a research article
(Long-term fellows who are Doctoral candidates will be encouraged to
develop this series of 4 articles within the same topic for use towards
a publication-format dissertation in partial fulfillment of requirements
for a doctoral degree in Epidemiology or Biostatistics).
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