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2026 Conference Special Issue

Call for Manuscripts

Conference presenters are invited to submit full-length manuscripts based on work presented at the 2026 RCMI Consortium National Conference for consideration in a peer-reviewed Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH).

Submission deadline January 31, 2027
Peer reviewed 50% conference discount

Submissions are now open

From the 2026 conference presentation to a peer-reviewed publication

The Organizing Committee of the 2026 RCMI Consortium National Conference invites conference presenters to submit full-length manuscripts for consideration in the IJERPH Conference Special Issue.

If you presented an abstract or other scientific contribution at the July 19–22, 2026 conference, you are encouraged to develop that work into a manuscript for journal peer review. The Special Issue is intended to create a permanent scholarly record of research, scientific advances, translational discoveries, community-engaged scholarship, and related work presented during the meeting.

Special Issue

Proceedings of the 2026 Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Consortium National Conference: 40 Years of National Leadership in Biomedical Research, Training the Next Generation, and Community Health Impact

Open the Special Issue Instructions for Authors

Guest Editors

Special Issue Editors

The IJERPH Special Issue lists the following Guest Editors.

Elizabeth O. Ofili

Dr. Elizabeth O. Ofili

Guest Editor

Department of Clinical and Translational Sciences, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA

Interests: clinical cardiology

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Sandra P. Chang

Dr. Sandra P. Chang

Guest Editor

John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA

Interests: immunology; vaccine development and education; One Health

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Monica Kazlausky Esquivel

Dr. Monica Kazlausky Esquivel

Guest Editor

Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

Interests: child nutrition; nutrition security; community-based participatory research

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Emma Fernandez-Repollet

Dr. Emma Fernandez-Repollet

Guest Editor

Department of Pharmacology, UPR Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, P.O. Box 365067, San Juan, PR 0936-5067, USA

Interests: pharmacy; medical education

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Daniel F. Sarpong

Dr. Daniel F. Sarpong

Guest Editor

Office of Health Equity Research, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Interests: public exposome; built environment; health disparities; statistical modeling; epidemiological studies; chronic diseases; infectious diseases; social determinants; biological determinants

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Paul B. Tchounwou

Dr. Paul B. Tchounwou

Guest Editor

RCMI Center for Urban Health Disparities Research and Innovation, Richard Dixon Research Center, Morgan State University, 1700 E. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251, USA

Interests: environmental health and diseases; gene-environment interactions; environmental toxicology, mutagenesis and carcinogenesis; environmental epidemiology and disease control; health risk assessment and management; ecological risk assessment and management; environmental chemistry and computational toxicology; environmental genomics and proteomics; environmental medicine; natural resources damage assessment and management

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Scope of the Special Issue

Research presented across the RCMI conference

The Special Issue is intended to capture the breadth and scientific impact of research presented during the conference, including emerging directions in minority health, biomedical, socio-behavioral and clinical research, translational science, and population health.

The Special Issue page notes that submissions may include original research, systematic or scoping reviews, method papers, community case studies, program evaluation and tracking studies, implementation science reports, and reviews summarizing conference workshops and scientific sessions.

Keywords

Keywords listed by IJERPH for this Special Issue

  • behavioral and social sciences
  • biomedical informatics and computational biology
  • cancer health disparities research
  • cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
  • women's, children's, and adolescent health
  • clinical and translational science
  • cellular and molecular biology
  • complementary and integrative health
  • environmental health and toxicology
  • health literacy and health information technology
  • HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases
  • nanoscience and nanotechnology
  • neuroscience and mental health
  • public health sciences
  • artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • precision medicine
  • community-engaged research
  • health policy and implementation science

How to submit

Submit through the IJERPH Special Issue page

1

Review the journal requirements

Use the current IJERPH Instructions for Authors for manuscript preparation and submission requirements.

2

Register or sign in with MDPI

Manuscripts are submitted online through the MDPI system.

3

Select the Conference Special Issue

Use the Special Issue page to begin the submission and confirm the current journal instructions.

Ready to submit your manuscript?

Submission deadline January 31, 2027
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