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Dear Readers,

With great admiration, we are excited to bring you issue 15 of rehabINK! As Co-Editors-in-Chief, we are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with innovative authors who bring diverse perspectives to the rehabilitation sciences. We are proud to announce that throughout the past year, our team of 19 editors has successfully published 12 articles! As our rehabINK team continues to grow, we hope to continue bringing you (our readers) captivating, through provoking, literature.

The articles presented in this issue are intended for everyone – researchers, clinicians, policy decision makers, those with lived experience, and individuals who are willing to learn and reflect. At rehabINK it is our mission to enhance the rehabilitation community through student-led research.

In concluding the celebration of pride month, we hope that you will take the time to read some unique articles shared within this issue around this topic. We are certain that you will be inspired by these articles.

We would like to conclude by thanking our amazing authors and editors for all their hard work. This issue could not have come to fruition without all their efforts!

Here’s to Issue 15!

Madalena Liougas and Meera Premnazeer, Co-Editors-in-Chief

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Dear Readers,

We are very excited to publish Issue 15. In this issue, readers can look forward to 7 thought-provoking articles that we expect will make contributions to rehabilitation sciences research and practice.

In this issue, some highlights include…

• Article #1: “The Military Veteran Alpine Challenge: Implications for the Field of Rehabilitation” – In this article, Ronessa Dass discusses The Military Alpine Challenge, which is a program for veterans living with chronic pain, led by Tom Hoppe and Dr Lindsay Rite.

• Article #2: “Childhood Ethics: How Can this New Field of Study Guide Research with Children?” – Emily Cox, Kristina Paola Ferreira, and Gail Teachman share their reflections in this Topical Commentary about considering children’s agency and their contributions in research.
• Article #3: “Enhancing Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis by Using Appropriate Sub-Variables” – Sex- and gender-based considerations are of utmost importance in health research. In their Topical Commentary, Meaghan Ray Peters and Teri Slade provide a practical primer on sex- and gender-based analysis.
• Article #4: “Interconnected, but not Identical: Challenges of Global Mental Health” – Although the world is as connected as ever, mental health care should be specific to individual contexts. In their Topical Commentary, Ilakkiah Chandran contests the current approaches to global mental health care in the world.

• Article #5: “2SLGBTQPIA+ Older Adults’ Health and Occupational Therapy” – Riya Shah discusses the challenges faced by 2SLGBTQPIA+ older adults, and the role of occupational therapy for addressing these disparities.

• Article #6: “Should we implement high velocity power training for healthy older adults? An application of strength and conditioning principles to older adult training regimes” – In this Mini-Review Article, Tiffany Tiu examines the application of a novel form of resistance training for older adults.
• Article #7: “Seeds of Science: Engaging over 1000 University Health Network Trainees” – Our very own Co-Editor-in-Chief, Madalena Liougas, showcases a new podcast within the University Health Network, called Seeds of Science. The podcast features various trainees and highlights their journeys in academia.

We thank the authors for their submissions, as well as the editors for their constructive feedback and comments for each of the articles. We also would like to acknowledge the illustrators in this issue, which added substantially to the published work.

Yours truly,

Kenneth Noguchi, Issue 15 Managing Editor

To refer to this article, it can be cited as:

Liougas M, Premnazeer M, & Noguchi K. Letter from the editors. rehabINK. 2023;15. Available from: https://rehabinkmag.com