Journal
Club

The IAWH Journal Club is an educational meeting in which students from colleges and universities primarily in the Washington, DC region, members of the public, and seasoned researchers gather to discuss published, peer-reviewed articles to keep themselves abreast of new knowledge, promote awareness of current research findings, and explore future research topics.

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Journal Club is an opportunity to teach younger and newer public health and medical students to critique and appraise research, and encourage them to utilize evidence-based research. It is also an opportunity to challenge implicit gender and racial biases in research and the delivery of health care. 

 

Learning objectives of Journal Club include, but are not limited to:

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• Improve critical appraisal and interpretation skills and increase interaction with others in the field of public health and medicine.

• Challenge tradition, push on the conventional boundaries.

• Identify and overcome over-reliance on ingrained racial stereotypes and implicit biases in public health and medicine.

• Keep up-to-date with recently published literature.

• Identify related and supporting research.

• Integrate new knowledge into practice or future research.

• Learn and maintain good reading habits.