The AHA Centre and REACH’s CBR Collaborative Centre have a decade-long and celebrated history of collaboration. We sit on each other’s leadership committees and have co-facilitated and co-hosted many events over the years too. Still, we are always looking for ways to stretch the boundaries of partnership between the AHA Centre and the CBR Collaborative in support of our respective communities. And so, when we approached our colleagues at REACH to gauge whether they would consider co-editing a volume of the Journal of Indigenous HIV Research (JIHR), they jumped at the idea. We knew that a collaboration between the two Centres would be an opportunity to create something special together, but we had no idea just how extraordinary our journey to publishing Volume 11 would be.
AHA and REACH staff chose the theme of allyship in January 2020, not knowing that it would be so timely and poignant. The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA on May 25th 2020, and the on-going discovery and proof of children’s remains on former Indian Residential School grounds across the country in 2021—well known among Indigenous communities, reported in the Royal Commission on Indigenous People (1996) and in the Truth and Reconciliation Report (2015)—have given many of us cause to dig deep, challenging us to question mutually valuable and true allyship, reconciliation and the intricacies of working cross-culturally in good and meaningful ways.
We knew that the theme of allyship would hold special relevance for our colleagues as we look for ways to work together to create positive change where issues surrounding HIV, Hepatitis C and STBBI are concerned. We hoped that our call for papers would inspire submissions from all those doing Community Based Research (CBR)—our colleagues who generously share their lived experience and perspectives in efforts to make research accessible, relevant and useful to the people and communities we serve. We hoped to hear fresh perspectives from new researchers and have wise practices offered up from reciprocal learners who have been engaged in CBR work for a long time. We were excited to see capacity building in action!
Volume 11 has yielded the largest number of articles in the history of the JIHR (13) and, for the first time ever, we have received articles that span all submission categories too! We hope that in addition to the research-focused articles on offer in Volume 11, you take the time to read the rich stories, commentaries and student papers where authors share their thoughts on, and journeys of allyship that, in some cases, move beyond what we think of as reciprocal and equitable working relationships to enter realms of friendship and, in some cases, even take on family-like bonds.
The JIHR is a community-led (and community-inspired) journal and this year, our CBR community has truly stepped up to contribute. AHA and REACH staff, and JIHR authors, peer reviewers and translators have all worked tirelessly on getting Volume 11 out the door, despite the individual and collective challenges we’ve experienced trying to maintain a somewhat ‘normal’ level of operation while navigating a global pandemic. We would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge that publishing Volume 11 has taken much longer than we could have anticipated. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their determined efforts and incredible patience over the course of this past year and a half.
The AHA Centre extends a huge and heartfelt thank you to our colleagues at REACH/PAN for their drive, hard work and for the innovation they’ve inspired in the process of publishing JIHR Volume 11. Through this collaboration, we’ve expanded JIHR authorship and peer review, we’ve hosted webinars and workshops and even loosely developed a mentorship program for first-time peer reviewers.
AHA and REACH staff chose the theme of allyship in January 2020, not knowing that it would be so timely and poignant. The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA on May 25th 2020, and the on-going discovery and proof of children’s remains on former Indian Residential School grounds across the country in 2021—well known among Indigenous communities, reported in the Royal Commission on Indigenous People (1996) and in the Truth and Reconciliation Report (2015)—have given many of us cause to dig deep, challenging us to question mutually valuable and true allyship, reconciliation and the intricacies of working cross-culturally in good and meaningful ways.
We knew that the theme of allyship would hold special relevance for our colleagues as we look for ways to work together to create positive change where issues surrounding HIV, Hepatitis C and STBBI are concerned. We hoped that our call for papers would inspire submissions from all those doing Community Based Research (CBR)—our colleagues who generously share their lived experience and perspectives in efforts to make research accessible, relevant and useful to the people and communities we serve. We hoped to hear fresh perspectives from new researchers and have wise practices offered up from reciprocal learners who have been engaged in CBR work for a long time. We were excited to see capacity building in action!
Volume 11 has yielded the largest number of articles in the history of the JIHR (13) and, for the first time ever, we have received articles that span all submission categories too! We hope that in addition to the research-focused articles on offer in Volume 11, you take the time to read the rich stories, commentaries and student papers where authors share their thoughts on, and journeys of allyship that, in some cases, move beyond what we think of as reciprocal and equitable working relationships to enter realms of friendship and, in some cases, even take on family-like bonds.
The JIHR is a community-led (and community-inspired) journal and this year, our CBR community has truly stepped up to contribute. AHA and REACH staff, and JIHR authors, peer reviewers and translators have all worked tirelessly on getting Volume 11 out the door, despite the individual and collective challenges we’ve experienced trying to maintain a somewhat ‘normal’ level of operation while navigating a global pandemic. We would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge that publishing Volume 11 has taken much longer than we could have anticipated. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their determined efforts and incredible patience over the course of this past year and a half.
The AHA Centre extends a huge and heartfelt thank you to our colleagues at REACH/PAN for their drive, hard work and for the innovation they’ve inspired in the process of publishing JIHR Volume 11. Through this collaboration, we’ve expanded JIHR authorship and peer review, we’ve hosted webinars and workshops and even loosely developed a mentorship program for first-time peer reviewers.
May the knowledge and lessons learned shared by the authors of JIHR Volume 11 be useful in your own journey toward allyship and in working cross-culturally.
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2021 JIHR Editorial Team is: Marni Amirault (AHA Centre) Sherri Pooyak (AHA Centre) Jennifer Mavritsakis (AHA Centre) Janice Duddy (PAN/REACH) Madeline Gallard (PAN/REACH) |
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