Voices in Print
Are you a patient with an idea about how to improve medical care?
In my day job as a professor, I lead a small program that pairs patients and advocates with professional science writers to co-create editorials on improving healthcare from the patient perspective. We are currently looking for new patient-partners who want to use their insights to drive change.
About the project
We believe that patients can help inform healthcare delivery practices, advance provider education, and improve care quality and safety. Unfortunately, their voices are often missing from medical journals for several reasons, including the complex nature of the article submission and review processes and expensive publishing fees.
The Voices in Print project helps remove these barriers by working directly with patients and their families to contribute their voice, their story, to conversations about improving care for their health conditions.
Call for partners
We are looking for new partners who have specific ideas about how care for their conditions could be improved. Recommendations should arise from personal experience as a patient or advocate.
Examples of successful ideas include recommendations to expand newborn screening panels for genetic disorders, suggestions to ask patients about their engagement with online health communities, and proposals for better labeling of gluten-containing medications.
We only accept specific and action-oriented ideas. We do not accept submissions about raising awareness or “day in the life” experiences.
To apply
To submit your idea for consideration, please visit our website and use the form to describe your idea in fewer than 200 words.
To be clear, participation is free. You will work with a professional science writer to help you tell your story and translate your idea into an editorial.
To support
We are also looking for new sources of funding. If you are a program officer or philanthropist interested in supporting the Voices in Print project, please do reach out by replying to this email.
What a fantastic idea, and a great way to acknowledge and promote the experience of those directly involved with the systems of care.
I have had a series of MRSA infections since May 2022, requiring 4 hospitalizations and long-term care by wound care facilities associated with the 2 major healthcare providers in the Metro Atlanta (Piedmont and Emory). I think I prefer Emory over Piedmont.