In July 2021, one of JANAC's associate editors, Carl Kirton, DNP, MBA, RN, was appointed the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). Although we were sad to have Dr. Kirton step away from the JANAC editorial board and leadership team, we were thrilled that he would be taking over the leadership of AJN. With his departure, we initiated a search to fill his associate editor vacancy.
I am pleased to announce that not only have we added a new associate editor to the JANAC Editorial Leadership Team, but we have also added two new assistant editors. This expansion aligns with two of JANAC's core values-involvement and inclusion. Our involvement core value includes a focus of having domestic (U.S.) and international representation on the editorial board. The inclusion core value includes a commitment to mentoring the next generation of authors, reviewers, and editorial leaders. With these values in mind, three individuals join the JANAC Editorial Leadership Team in 2022.
J. Craig Phillips, PhD, LLM, RN, ACRN, FAAN, FCAN, a Professor in the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa (Canada) and current President of the Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, has been appointed as a new JANAC associate editor. Earlier this year, the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC), the Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (CANAC), and JANAC's publisher-Wolters Kluwer-entered into an agreement that allows members of CANAC virtual access to JANAC as part of their membership.
Alanna Bergman, MSN, AGNP-BC, AAHIVS has been appointed as a new JANAC assistant editor. Ms. Bergman is a nurse practitioner and a PhD in nursing student at Johns Hopkins University where she is studying the intersectional stigma associated with HIV, TB, and poverty in South Africa. In 2021, she was a JANAC editorial intern.
Emiko Kamitani, PhD, MPH, MS, RN has also been appointed as a new JANAC assistant editor. Dr. Kamitani is a Senior Service Fellow, Research Synthesis and Translation Team, Translation and Evaluation Branch, Division of HIV Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) and a Clinical Professor, St. Luke's International University, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Kamitani joined the JANAC editorial board as a member in 2022.
These three individuals join JANAC's managing editor, Adam Gordon, BA; associate editor S. Raquel Ramos, PhD, MBA, MSN, FNP, FNYAM; associate editor and chief statistical advisor Susan Silva, PhD; deputy editor Allison Webel, PhD, RN, FAAN; the full editorial board and myself as we strive to advance JANAC's mission of supporting clinical practice, research, education, and advocacy through the dissemination of scholarly, cutting-edge, evidence-based, and evolving knowledge and practice standards related to HIV and its co-morbidities from a nursing perspective. JANAC provides a forum for interprofessional discussions of timely and thought-provoking professional and societal issues associated with clinical practice, education, research, prevention, public health, health administration, global health, legal-ethical issues, health equity, environmental issues, and public policy related to all aspects of HIV and its comorbidities.
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Author Contributions
M. V. Relf was involved with the conceptualization, writing the original draft, and review and editing.