November 2018 Volume 3 Issue 2

C H I A
Chronicles of Health 
Impact Assessment

Improving community health through health impact assessments

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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We want to thank Linda Realmuto and Susan Sutherland for working with us as guest editors on this issue. It 
is a challenge to recruit people working in the HIA field to write about their HIA work on top of  their other 
commitments. Practitioners don’t have the same incentives to publish that drives our academic partners, but we 
appreciate everyone’s efforts.

Another continuing challenge is to recruit peer reviewers. Dr. Amber Comer and I included an article in this issue 
about the need for peer reviewers and how important they are to the publishing process. We continue to work to 
recruit peer reviewers that can offer comments to critique and strengthen the articles that are submitted. 

We had another Undergraduate Service Learning Assistant Josephine Johnson working with CHIA this summer. I 
want to thank Josie for her contributions on this issue and the IUPUI Center for Service Learning for their financial 
support of  the position.

Sincerely, 
Cynthia Stone DrPH, RN 
Chronicles of  Health Impact Assessment Editor-in-Chief