The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation: Challenging Traditional Academic Publishing Models Through Community Engagement to Foster Humanism and Advance Disability Health Equity

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how community engagement and editorial power-sharing with individuals with lived experience can advance disability health equity in academic publishing.
• Identify key components of a transdisciplinary approach that integrates humanities, disability studies, and rehabilitation to address structural ableism and promote humanistic care.
• Explain how the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation challenges traditional academic publishing models through inclusive, co-created scholarship and open-access dissemination.