Editor's Message
On behalf of the Editorial Board, it is with great pride and sincere privilege that I am writing this message to present She Matters, a monthly published online magazine. Launching this new magazine would not have been possible without the great and much appreciated contributions from the editorial and technical team. The robust intellectual support and well-timed contribution of content writers deserve special appreciatory applause. Our team expects similar sort of sincere dedication from the writers in near future.
According to UIS data, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Women in STEM fields publish less and usually, the female researchers especially in the field of healthcare are often not well acknowledged for their research as compared to their counterparts. The female healthcare researchers force must work as collaborative, integrated team to achieve the goal of generating evidence-based research data required to address different public health challenges. A vision for inter- professional research collaboration has emerged on International level, and momentum is building in academic and practice settings in support of this vision.
In order to acquire this momentum at National level, for acceleration of inter professional collaborative research, healthcare researchers and professionals must critically evaluate the area of research for developing interventions, policy and advocacy. The magazine aims to provide such common platform for female healthcare professionals and researchers to promptly share their novel results and latest developments in Pharmaceutical, Allied Sciences, built on advances in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, psychology and physiotherapy.
The magazine wishes to serve as a National forum for showcasing and acknowledging the achievements of female healthcare researchers in Pakistan. The emergence of a new magazine comes from a long process, hence, all essential steps to make it a high caliber scientific publication were taken. We are relying on the alliance of all our writers, editors, and contributors to make it up to date, vibrant and relevant publication. We hope you will enjoy reading our first issue. We invite you to submit your best articles for publication.
With my kindest regards,
Prof. Dr. Madeeha Malik
Editor-in-Chief
She Matters