Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Journal of Communication in Healthcare
For an Article Collection on
Communicating Health Through the Arts: Insights from Research and Practice
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Article Collection Guest Advisor(s)
Dr. Rafael Obregon,
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
[email protected]
Dr. Eliza Govender,
University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Communicating Health Through the Arts: Insights from Research and Practice
Arts-based communication involves the strategic integration of theatre, music, visual arts, storytelling, film, photography, and digital media in health and risk communication research and practice, and can contribute to multiple roles in promoting healthy behaviours, fostering social and policy change, advancing health, racial, and social equity, and democratizing and decolonizing knowledge production and research processes. The arts can help foster dialogue, build connections, support healing, bridge health literacy and education gaps, and engage communities, special groups, and patients from diverse backgrounds on issues of health, illness, and care. Arts-based approaches provide culturally relevant ways to create and/or strengthen collaborative partnerships, address issues of misinformation and promote understanding, participation, and equity in health and risk communication.
The Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media and Engagement in Global Health (JCIH) is a leading peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis that publishes innovative research, interventions and perspectives on health communication in all areas of healthcare, public health, global health and medicine. The JCIH is seeking research papers, reviews, and evidence-based case studies on the topic of arts-based health and risk communication for a special section to be published in one of the Journal’s 2026 or 2027 regular issues. We are seeking submissions from a diverse group of scholars and practitioners globally.
Sample topics for this special section include but are not limited to:
● Arts-based communication research that engages communities in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health and risk communication interventions
● Arts-based communication experiences that informs health policy, improves behavioral and health outcomes, and/or advances health, racial, and social equity.
● The systematic integration of arts-based communication into health systems
● The use, critical analysis and/or application of arts-based methods in communicating health and risk information
● Health and risk communication research on new directions and strategies for arts-based health communication
● Community-engaged and/or participatory arts projects in health communication and knowledge translation
● Creative, arts-based methods for storytelling/communicating lived experiences on health, illness, and care
● Arts-based methods in medical or health professions education & in healthcare settings
● The role of the arts in fostering empathy, reflection, cultural humility, and dialogue in healthcare and global health contexts
contexts
● The role of arts-based communication in promoting social, behavioural, policy, and organizational change
● Evaluations of arts-based health communication interventions or programs
● Systematic reviews of the literature/evidence on arts-based communication in health.
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Submission Instructions
All manuscripts submitted to this special section will undergo a full peer-review as part of our standard editorial process. Guest Advisors for this collection will not be involved in handling the peer-review process but will review some of the submissions and will primarily have an advisory/consultative role. The editorial responsibility for the Journal and all final editorial decisions on papers submitted to this collection will remain with the Editor-in-Chief. Please review the journal scope and author submission instructions prior to submitting a manuscript.
The deadline for submitting manuscripts is September 15th, 2026.
This call for papers and list of topics were designed by the Journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Renata Schiavo, and the Senior Editorial Assistant, Mariane Saroufim. For questions on this special section, please contact the Journal’s Editorial Team at [email protected]. For more information on the JCIH, visit our website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ycih20.
This special section will be edited by the Journal’s Editor-in- Chief, Dr. Renata Schiavo in collaboration with guest advisors, the JCIH editorial board, and with the input of the peer-review process.
All manuscripts submitted to this Article Collection will undergo desk assessment and peer-review as part of our standard editorial process. Guest Advisors for this Collection will not be involved in peer-reviewing manuscripts unless they are an existing member of the Editorial Board. Please review the journal Aims and Scope and author submission instructions prior to submitting a manuscript.