PHSR Interest Group: 2010 Article of the Year Award Nominations

The call for nominations for the 2010 Public Health Systems Research Article-of-the-Year Award will open in January. The award will be presented at AcademyHealth's PHSR Interest Group Annual Meeting in Boston.

Public Health Systems Research (PHSR) is a field of inquiry examining the organization, financing, performance, and impact of health systems – defined as the constellation of governmental and non-governmental actors that influence population health, including health care providers, insurers, purchasers, public health agencies, community-based organizations and entities that operate outside the traditional sphere of health care.¹

The Article of the Year Award recognizes the best scientific work that the field of PHSR has produced and published in 2010. The awardee will receive complimentary registration for both the PHSR Interest Group Annual Meeting and AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting, travel assistance, and a $1,000 cash award.²

Criteria
Using either qualitative or quantitative techniques, articles must present, analyze, and comment on new data or synthesize and analyze data that have already been collected. The selection will be based on the article’s contribution to the understanding of public health systems; provision of new insights to the field of PHSR; and potential to advance the field and/or challenge current thinking.

Nomination Guidelines

• Nominators must be members of AcademyHealth, although nominees need not be.
• Self-nominations are acceptable.
• Nominated articles must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009.

 1 Mays, G.P., P.K. Halverson, and D. F. Scutchfield. "Behind the Curve? What We Know and Need to Learn from Public Health Systems Research." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, vol. 9, no. 3, 2003, pp. 179-182.

 2 In a case where there is more than one author, the first author of the article will receive the award.

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