Health Science Inquiry is a student-run, annual online publication that seeks to publish the views and thoughts of Canadian graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and medical students on pertinent issues in the health sciences. Our group includes student members from universities all across Canada. This year we are also encouraging international graduate or medical students to collaborate on this journal edition. We publish our journal once a year, with each issue framed around a specific theme. 

The mission of Health Science Inquiry (HSI) is to facilitate discourse among graduate and medical students on global health issues. HSI presents an annual publication comprised of high quality articles written by graduate students and some of Canada’s most talented scientists on pertinent health issues facing society. Through its initiatives, HSI fosters the development of emerging scientists.

What we Publish

Health Science Inquiry strives to publish diverse and engaging scholarly and creative work done by graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and medical students across the health sciences. We accept submissions in a variety of formats including: 

• Scholarly perspectives and commentaries 

• Visual art and photography

• Short fiction 

The submissions must tackle an issue described in the annual theme. Previous year's themes can be found in our archives. 

Short fiction and visual art / photography can be directly submitted to healthscienceinquiry@gmail.com. They will not need to be amendable to the file formats described under "submissions," and will not undergo the peer review process.

Scholarly perspectives and commentaries may discuss and reflect on landmark publications, provide critical insight into advancing research, practice and/or policy, or enlighten readers on novel areas of focus concerning medicine and human health. Articles should be written in an engaging style while keeping in mind the broad readership of Health Science Inquiry. This includes undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, and faculty from multiple health disciplines (sociology, biology, pharmacology, medicine, public health and nutritional science, etc). We strongly recommend that authors read previous issues of the journal to obtain a sense of the level, length, and style of submissions.
 

PEER REVIEW PROCESS:
Health Science Inquiry uses a double-blind review process. All submissions (excluding visual art and short fiction) will be reviewed by at least 2 independent graduate or medical student reviewers in a related discipline. 

OPEN ACCESS POLICY:

Health Science Inquiry provides immediate open access to its published content based on the principle that making scholarly material freely available to the public supports a global exchange of knowledge. Similarly, authors will not be charged to submit or publish a manuscript with Health Science Inquiry. Beginning in 2020, all scholarly work will be published under a Creative Commons license.