About the founding editor
A T M Haidar Khan wrote The Silence Between Two Heartbeats, wrote both source documents behind this issue’s research content (“From Lived Experience to Research Questions” and “Beyond the NICU”), and is this magazine’s Editor-in-Chief. We want to state that plainly: the founding editor has a direct personal and professional stake in the magazine’s success and in how his earlier work is received. Please keep that relationship in mind as you read this issue.
How we manage that conflict
- Research content written by the editor (the two source documents) is clearly labeled as the author’s own scoping and agenda-setting work, not independent third-party research, wherever it’s cited or summarized.
- Research Digest and Clinician Corner pieces must be reviewed by an independent, named clinical advisor before they’re treated as final. That check is there specifically so the editor’s own material doesn’t go unexamined.
- We actively seek Family Voices essays from people other than the editor (see our call for submissions), so the magazine doesn’t rely only on the editor’s family story.
Contributors’ conflicts of interest
- All clinical, research, and expert contributors are asked to disclose in writing any financial, institutional, or personal interest connected to what they’re writing about or reviewing (for example, consulting for a device maker mentioned in a piece).
- Any conflicts disclosed are published alongside the relevant piece, not left out.
Handling sensitive personal material
- Family Voices contributors decide how much they share and can ask to be anonymized at any time before publication.
- Anything involving a minor, including any child who appears in the source book and prospectus, follows our standing practice: we describe events without presenting the child as the author or subject of a personal account.