Journal of Global Health

Journal of Global Health
Founded:	2011
Recognition:	SGB
Membership:	47
Executive Board:	Amit Saha, Editor-in-Chief Frances Cho, Executive Editor Dana Neugut, Managing Editor Connie Chen, Managing Editor (Online) Kevin Xu, Creative Director
Category:	Publication
Website:	http://www.ghjournal.org/
Contact:	info@ghjournal.org

The Journal of Global health is an internationally-distributed student public health publication and media organization based at Columbia University. The Journal, split into its print publication and multimedia JGH Online branch, is by readership the largest and most widely-distributed student public health journal in the country.

Mission

To facilitate dialogue between students at the undergraduate and graduate level on innovative solutions to interdisciplinary global health issues from a variety of academic, cultural, and geographic perspectives.

Operations

The content of the print journal, published during both the fall and spring semesters, is edited by the Editorial Review Board (ERB) of JGH. The Managing Print Editor, Executive Print Editor, and three Senior Editors review the submitted articles and conditionally approve fifteen to twenty manuscripts for publication, provided that the authors work to revise the manuscripts in accordance with the ERB’s guidelines and recommendations. These manuscripts are divided among three editing teams of Associate Editors, each of which is led by a Senior Editor. The teams anonymously review and revise the manuscripts, and the Senior Editor communicates the recommended changes to the authors. Additionally, each manuscript undergoes at least one review by one of our sixteen Graduate Student Advisors based at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. After three rounds of revisions by our ERB teams, all likely candidates for publication are selected, and the Associate Editors perform two rounds of copyedits. After doing so, the authors receive a final copy of their manuscripts along with a publishing contract for approval, and the manuscripts are laid out via InDesign and sent off to print. The time between the submissions deadline and the print date is typically 3.5 months.

JGH’s Managing Editors (Online, Print) and Executive Editors (Online, Print) are responsible for providing oversight on all of JGH’s daily operations. They are responsible for making sure deadlines are met and the Editor-in-Chief’s action points are completed. The Managing Editors are also responsible for conceptualizing strategies to improve the efficiency of JGH’s operations.

The Business and Communications board is responsible for securing funding and advertising from New York City-based businesses, universities, and nonprofits in order to assure that JGH can publish under its budget.

Finally, JGH’s Executive Design Editors are responsible for overseeing JGH’s manuscript layout process. They also work to conceptualize each issue’s visual style and develop ways to improve JGH’s aesthetic appeal and readability.

WiGH? – What is Global Health?

WiGH? (pronounced “Whig”) is JGH’s new digital media initiative. Students engaged in grassroots public health activism and fieldwork too often do not have the clout to publish their work or translate their experience into social change. Through WiGH?, JGH produces weekly podcasts, videos, and webcasts of interviews conducted with scientists, public health researchers, and, most importantly, student leaders to answer provocative and controversial questions in science and medicine that seeks to bring together the voices of scientists, activists, and students from diverse fields in order to explore ideas and challenges in scientific research and medicine. Notable guests on the podcast have included W. Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health; Harvey V. Fineberg, current president of the Institute of Medicine; and Nobel Laureate Martin Chalfie.

Accolades

• Social Enterprise Pitch, The Global Health and Innovation Conference (GHIC), Yale University (2012)
• Future of Public Health Spotlight, New Public Health Forum, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2012)
• Winner, The King's Crown Leadership Excellence Award for Health and Wellness, Columbia University (2013)

A young organization, the Journal of Global Health has already successfully published many voices and opinions that were missing from this campus prior to its establishment...Let us never tire of this spirit of innovation and keep it a constant part of our lives.

– Jason Han

References

http://www.ghjournal.org/about-jgh/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Journal-of-Global-Health/233019786768057

http://bwog.com/2011/12/16/bwogsalon-the-journal-of-global-health/