2010 PHSR Interest Group: Article of the Year Nominations

The 2009 Public Health Systems Research Article of the Year Award will be presented at AcademyHealth's PHSR Interest Group Annual Meeting on June 29-30 in Boston.

The deadline for nominations has passed. Nominations are currently under review.

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 (view the expanded definition here).

The Article of the Year Award recognizes the best scientific work that the field of PHSR has produced and published in 2009. 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. (In a case where there is more than one author, the first author of the article will receive the award.)

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.

Instructions for Submitting Nominations

• Nominations must be received at AcademyHealth by March 15, 2010.
• Nominations must include the name and contact information for both the nominator and nominee and a copy of the article(s).
• Nominations may be submitted by e-mail or postal mail.
  Email to: PHSR@academyhealth.org
  Mail to: AcademyHealth
  Attention: PHSR Article of the Year Committee
  1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 600
  Washington, DC 20036