AFRICAN JOURNAL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM WELCOMES THE HEALTH PRESS

To the Editor - On behalf of the African Fusting & Company (KWF), SPi Global, 5 We hope AJPP will support The Health Journal Partnership Program (AJPP), I write leading international journals (noted below), Press’ vision “to address the challenges to welcome The Health Press into AJPP. and many others. in making informed decisions of public The mission of AJPP is to promote wider AJPP, a small but mighty organization, health within Zambia and the global world dissemination of African health and medical operates with formal partnerships among in general.” research published in African health and the journal members. The Health Press will Annette Flanagin, RN, MA, FAAN medical journals. AJPP meets its mission be partnered with JAMA and the Malawi Co-Director, African Journal Partnership by facilitating collaboration and mutual Medical Journal (one of the founding Program learning between African journal editors African journal members of AJPP). Other Executive Managing Editor and international journal and publishing partnerships include Vice President, Editorial Operations partners, improving the visibility of African • , the Rwandan JAMA and The JAMA Network research by working to get African journals Journal of Medicine and Health 330 N Wabash Ave accepted into MEDLINE and other scholarly Sciences, and The BMJ Chicago, IL 60611 indexes, improving editorial practices United States and the technical production capability of • Ghana Medical Journal, Sierra Leone [email protected] African journals, and supporting the training Journal of Biomedical Research, and of medical and health editors, researchers, authors, reviewers, and journalists in Africa. • Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, AJPP is sponsored by the US National Annals of African Surgery, and Annals Library of Medicine and the Fogarty of Internal Medicine International Center with support from the • Le Mali Medical, Annales Africaines Council of Science Editors, the Elsevier de Medicine, Environmental Health Foundation, African Journals Online Perspectives, and the New (AJOL), Clarivate Analytics, Kaufman Wills Journal of Medicine

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