Aug. 21—A UND professor has been named to the advisory board of an initiative that seeks to promote equity in academic publishing.
On Aug. 18, Don Warne, an associate dean at the UND medical school, director of the Indians Into Medicine program and director of the masters of public health program, was named to the board of the Health Equity Project. The initiative was launched by Health Affairs, a peer-reviewed journal for health, health care and policy.
Including Warne, the advisory board is made up of nine other health scholars coming from universities across the country, including Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of California-San Francisco and Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
"We are honored to have such a distinguished group help guide our efforts to address racism and promote equity at Health Affairs and in scholarly publishing more broadly," said Alan Weil. chief editor of Health Affairs.
The goal of the project is to enact programming to increase the quality and quantity of studies authored by members of racial and ethnic groups previously underrepresented in the Health Affairs publication.