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Rural and Remote Health Annual Report 2007

About Us

Rural and Remote Health was initiated in 1998 by a grant to Deakin University from the Department of Human Services, Rural health Division, Victoria, Australia. The initial vision was to serve rural and remote communities throughout the world by providing a community forum and specific health-related information. Since then, our one-person team of journal manager has grown to include:
  • an international editorial board
  • an editor-in-Chief
  • regional editors
  • regional editorial panels
  • a software developer
  • a production editor
  • a Journal executive committee
  • an international reviewer panel

Editor-in-Chief
Paul Worley, Dean of the School of Medicine at Flinders University, based in Adelaide, Australia is the Editor-in-Chief of Rural and Remote Health. Paul is a rural doctor and, as Editor, shapes and guides the journal, oversees the review process and supports and advises authors, taking an active interest in the progress of each article in production.

European Regional Editor
Christos Lionis acted as the manager and medical director of the Spili Health Centre, a pilot for the University of Crete Primary Care Centre, for 9 years, getting experiences as a clinician and researcher in the field of Primary Health Care and General Practice. He is now an Associate Professor of Social and Family Medicine at the Department of Social Medicine, University of Crete.

African Regional Editor
Ian Couper is Professor of Rural Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is also Principal Specialist (Rural Medicine), in the North West Province of South Africa. He is a trained family physicain. He spent ten years practising in a remote rural hospital in nothern KwaZuluNatal province.

Australasian Regional Editors

Ann Larson is Director of the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health in Western Australia. She is a demographer and public health researcher with a commitment of many years to the rural health sector.


Peter Jones, a generalist paediatrician, has recently been director of a combined Australian university department of rural health and rural clinical school. He is currently Deputy Dean of Medicine, Bond University, Queensland.


North American Regional Editors

Bob Bowman has found yet another distributional medical education home at the ATSU School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona. He is a Professor, adds the family practice and rural perspective to curricula, and contributes to admissions and to small group teaching activities. He will work with medical students and faculty at ten underserved site training locations from Hawaii to Brooklyn. He continues to post his research studies at http://www.ruralmedicaleducation.org/physician_workforce_studies.htm.


Judith Kulig is a Professor in the Nursing Program within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. She has devoted her research program to understanding rural health issues specifically addressing unique groups who live in rural areas, nursing practice in rural and remote Canada and community resiliency in rural communities. Judith is Chair of the Canadian Rural Health Research Society for which she was one of the founding members.


Book Review Editor
David has been appointed Deputy Head of the Medical School at the University of Queensland, taking responsibility for the MB BS program, and will continue to be active in research and scholarship. With Professor Andrew Wilson he is producing a new text book on public health and epidemiology for Oxford University Press.

Production Editor
Melbourne-based Jennifer Richmond offers expert editorial assistance to authors at each stage in the publication process. Jen works with some authors on English-language improvement or assists with re-writing before the submitted paper goes for review. After review, she offers help to authors to make the changes required by reviewers, then copyedits accepted papers to journal style. Jen is responsible for editorial development and generates information for authors.

Journal Manager
Jenny Bigelow has been with the journal for 3 years. She works from Geelong, Victoria, and deals with the day-to-day running of the journal. She manages the smooth flow of articles through the publication process and coordinates development of the journal site. She is also involved in formatting articles, tables and graphics for Web publication and is available to advise authors and answer user queries. She is the friendly response from the ejrh email address.


Editorial Board

The members of the editorial board are as follows:
Editor-in-Chief
Paul Worley (Australia)
Regional Editors
Robert Bowman (USA)
Ian Couper (South Africa)
Peter Jones (Australia)
Judith Kulig (Canada)
Ann Larson (Australia)
Christos Lionis (Greece)
Book Review Editor
David Wilkinson (Australia)
Assistant Book Review Editor
Angel M Centeno (Argentina)
Rural Health Status
Michael Alkan (Israel)
Elaine Duffy (Australia)
M K Rajakumar (Malaysia)
David Wilkinson (Australia)
Rural Health Policy
Margaret Brown (Australia)
Ira Moscovice (USA)
Prof Craig Veitch (Australia)
Rural Health Education
Wame Baravilala (Fiji)
Angel M Centeno (Argentina)
Pat Farry (New Zealand)
James Goertzen (Canada)
Arthur Kaufman (USA)
Richard Lawrance (Australia)
Rural Health Practice
Alan Bruce Chater (Australia)
Elma de Vries (South Africa)
Sue Lenthall (Australia)
Dennis Pashen (Australia)
Indigenous Health
Wendy Edmondson (Australia)
Tamara Mackean (Australia)
Statistical Consultant
Adrian Esterman (Australia)

European Editorial Panel

Editor-in-Chief
Paul Worley (Australia)
Regional Editor
Christos Lionis (Greece)
Rural Health Policy
Jennifer Deaville (Wales)
James Douglas (Scotland)
John Gillies (UK)
Toralf Hasvold (Norway)
Jose Manuel Lopez Abuin (Spain)
Andrew Murphy (Ireland)
Rural Health Education
Ioan Bocsan (Romania)
Angel M Centeno (Argentina)
Tomas Faresjo (Sweden)
Hans-Joachim hannich (germany)
Adelais Markaki (Greece)
Berta Nunes (Portugal)
Jean Ross (New Zealand)
Hakan Yaman (Turkey)
Rural Health Practice
Claudio Colosio (Italy)
Desley Hegney (Australia)
Iain Mungall (England)
Ágnes Simek (Hungary)
Emmanouil Symvoulakis (Greece)

African Editorial Panel

Editor-in-Chief
Paul Worley (Australia)
Regional Editor
Ian Couper (South Africa)
Rural Health Status
Pascal Lutumba (Belgium)
Rural Health Policy
Fred Binka (Ghana)
Bernard Groosjohan (Mozambique)
Hellen Myezwa (South Africa)
Rural Health Education
Simeon Mining (Kenya)
Adamson Muula (Malawi)
Ntodeni Ndwamato (South Africa)
Rural Health Practice
Nzapfurundi Chabikuli (South Africa)
Victor Inem (Nigeria)
Gad Ruzaaza (Mbarara, Uganda)

Australasian Editorial Panel

Editor-in-Chief
Paul Worley (Australia)
Regional Editors
Peter Jones (Australia)
Ann Larson (Australia)
Rural Health Policy
Elaine Ashworth (Australia)
Brian Kelly (Australia)
Rural Health Education
Tony Smith (Australia)
Rural Health Practice
Steven Doherty (Australia)
John Fraser (Australia)
David Lyle (Australia)
Geoff Solarsh (Australia)
Indigenous Health
Mick Adams (Australia)

North American Editorial Panel

Regional Editors
Robert Bowman (USA)
Judith Kulig (Canada)
Rural Health Status
Marie Desmeules (Canada)
Elaine Duffy (Australia)
Aleck Ostry (Canada)
Cara Pennel (United States)
alison williams (Australia)
Rural Health Policy
David Hartley (USA)
Martha MacLeod (Canada)
Carol Miller (USA)
Rural Health Education and Practice
Jay Erickson (USA)
Desley Hegney (Australia)
Kathy Reavy (United States)
Charlene Winters (USA)
Kelley Withy (USA)
First Nations
Ursula Knoki-Wilson (United States of America)
Rose Roberts (Canada)
Janie Smith (Australia)
   
 

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