The 10th Annual Working Meeting of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICHPR) will take place at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA from 9am, 23 June (Sunday) to 2pm, 25 June (Tuesday). From  21-22 June (Friday-Saturday) there will be a pre-conference.  More information will be made available on our 2019 Annual Working Meeting page.

Learn more about Baltimore in this new article from The London Evening Standard "Why Baltimore is the Coolest City in the East" 

Several members of the ICPHR have been cooperating on a number of book projects and special journal editions.  An overview was prepared for the Annual Working Meeting in Edmonton and is available here.

The 2018 AWM agenda and social itinerary [updated] are now posted! Visit the conference page for further details.

​Dear ICPHR Members,
 
PartKommPlus – German Research Consortium for Health Communities is editing a special edition of the online multi-lingual journal Forum Qualitative Social Research (FQS)  on the topic of Methods in Participatory Health Research.  Susanne Hartung, myself and Tina Cook are the editors.  We are looking for submissions in English.  Deadline for abstracts is July 15th (see the PDF file below).
 
Best Regards,
 
Michael Wright

In collaboration with Springer Publishers, 'Participatory Health Research - Voices from Around the World' provides an overview of participatory health research from an international perspective, based on the work of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR).

Release: August 2018. Pre-order your copy!

A new version of the ICPHR Position Paper #1 has been recently published in Portuguese titled "O QUE É A PESQUISA-AÇÃO PARTICIPATIVA EM SAÚDE". This new position paper is available for download under our Resources page. 

Dear ICPHR members and friends,
 
I have been thinking about ways we can capitalise on work each of us is already doing in building a strong evidence base in all areas of PHR. One area that often goes underappreciated is the richness of work our graduate students do in preparing literature reviews for their masters and doctoral theses.
 
These reviews often go unpublished, despite being valuable syntheses of the knowledge in each specialised corner of the PHR world where the student’s research is focussed.
 
We would like, therefore, to give you and your students the opportunity to publish thesis lit review chapters on the ICPHR website. This would archive and make them publicly available, while building a categorised database of valuable knowledge.  THE REVIEWS CAN BE IN ANY LANGUAGE!
 
We are looking for lit reviews/syntheses that specifically pertain to the participatory process. I.e., not the general review on the thesis topic such as “the state of the literature in home care nursing,” but yes to “the use of participatory engagement methods in improving home care nursing.” So this might be a portion of the overall review.
 
Once published on the ICPHR website, you and your students would retain copyright and would be free to submit your reviews to journals for publication. Many major journals (such as Milbank Quarterly, for example) allow you to leave the original pre-submission version of your work on the website, as long as you direct the readers to the final published version as well. Otherwise you are always free to remove the review from the ICPHR site and later replace it with the final published version.
 
If you are interested in pursuing this, please feel free to contact me (jon.salsberg@ul.ie) or simply send on your lit review section for posting.
 
Many thanks!
 
Jon Salsberg

Our hosts in Edmonton, Alberta have put together a detailed information guide to help you prepare for your travel and stay in Edmonton.

​Please visit the AWM 18 Edmonton conference page for additional information on the venue, travelling to Edmonton, inner-city transportation, accommodation and much more!

The ICPHR is excited to be partnering with the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology as part of their Thinking Qualitatively Workshop Series for a unique one day special conference on participatory health research on Wednesday June 20th, 2018. The ICPHR AWM will follow. 

Abstract submission opens on January 11th, 2018! Please visit the pre-conference page for more information and updates.