<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>You may be interested in this call for attracts from the Globalization and Health journal:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/HealthinSDGs" target="_blank">https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/Healthin<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">SDGs </font></a><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The call for abstracts is below. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Monday, December 10, but my understanding is that the editors will be flexible, so if you may be a day or several late, I suggest that you do not let that deter you. And check back at the website over the coming days if you would like to submit an abstract but will not be able to by or near the deadline, just in case it gets extended.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><br><div><h1 style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.67em;color:rgb(27,48,81);font-family:Europa,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;line-height:1.4"><font size="2">Call for Papers: Health in the SDGs: Intersectoral Action for Health</font></h1></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/" class="m_3915674051084612694gmail-is-external" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(125,64,179)" target="_blank"><i style="box-sizing:inherit">Globalization and Health</i></a> is seeking contributions for an article collection that showcases multisectoral approaches to achieving the health and well-being related goals in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/21252030%20Agenda%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20web.pdf" class="m_3915674051084612694gmail-is-external" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(125,64,179)" target="_blank">The Agenda consists of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)</a>that Member States aim to achieve by 2030. Goal 3 focuses explicitly on health, however, almost all other goals are related to or contribute to health and well-being.<br style="box-sizing:inherit"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This article collection will focus on policies and programmes outside the health sector – potentially in collaboration with the health sector – that have health implications through commercial, cultural, economic, environmental, political, or social determinants of health. We hope to gather critical lessons on effectively engaging other sectors to enhance their health outputs, identifying co-benefits and ‘win-wins’ that enhance human health.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We look forward to theoretical, review, and empirical submissions that demonstrate active engagement in SDG-related policies and programmes outside the health sector that have an effect on population health.<br style="box-sizing:inherit"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We expect submissions to take an interdisciplinary and intersectoral perspective, and to apply methods such as policy analysis, embedded research, or systems thinking. Specific areas of interest might include but are not limited to:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0.4em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Three years into the SDG agenda; what are different sectors doing in terms of implementation?</font></li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0.4em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Multisectoral and intersectoral action: how sectors outside health are contributing to the achievement of their own SDG target(s) through policies and programmes that affect population health</font></li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0.4em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Commercial, social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental enablers and barriers to the achievement of SDGs</font></li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0.4em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Contradictions within the SDGs that could undermine their progressive realization and how these contradictions might be challenged or overcome</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i style="box-sizing:inherit">Globalization and Health</i> and the Guest Editors would like to promote the inclusion of researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines. A two-round process will take place. First, abstracts will be reviewed for consideration in the special issue. Upon review, the Guest Editors will invite selected authors to submit a full paper. Preference will be given to first authors from low- and middle-income countries and to gender-balanced author teams. Collaboration across institutions (across HICs and LMICs) is welcome.<br style="box-sizing:inherit"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please submit an extended abstract of 500 words as a Word document to <a href="mailto:sdgspecialissue@gmail.com" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(125,64,179)" target="_blank">sdgspecialissue@gmail.com</a> (must include Introduction/Background, Aim, Methods, Results, and Conclusion) by <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Monday, 10 December, 2018</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Queries may be directed to Sameera Hussain or Dena Javadi via <a href="mailto:sdgspecialissue@gmail.com" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(125,64,179)" target="_blank">sdgspecialissue@gmail.com</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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