Opportunities for Featured Paper Series
Health Affairs Scholar's featured paper series highlight cutting-edge research on a specific theme within health policy. These curated sets of 2–10 papers are featured on a dedicated landing page that brings together the entire collection in one place. The process includes early editorial feedback, rapid peer review and dissemination, and tailored promotion through multiple channels to maximize visibility.
Interested in collaborating with HAS on a Featured Paper Series? Please contact our team to discuss your topic, timeline, and budget.
For more details, reach out to Sarah Flaig at [email protected].
Introducing Health Affairs Scholar
Why Publish with Health Affairs Scholar
Health Affairs Scholar is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal of emerging and global health policy. Published under the aegis of Health Affairs and Project HOPE, the journal builds on Health Affairs’ wide, multidisciplinary community of scholars and policy leaders to share new research and evidence with swift online publication.
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About Open Access
With open access, all articles are freely available to read and reuse. Health Affairs Scholar offers both CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-NC licenses.
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Meet the Editorial Team
Kathryn A. Phillips, professor of health economics and health services research, University of California, San Francisco, serves as Editor-in-Chief for Health Affairs Scholar. Learn more about the team behind the journal.
Key Topics
Access, Costs, Quality, and Equity
To inform the health policy discourse, Health Affairs Scholar aims to publish evidence on improving access to care, delivery and clinical innovation for better outcomes, the interplay between costs and coverage, and how best to improve health equity.
Global Health Policy
As an international journal of health policy, Health Affairs Scholar focuses on efforts to improve population health and well-being around the globe. This includes measuring value – weighing benefits, costs, and preferences – to achieve more equitable health care.
Innovation & Technology
Health Affairs Scholar highlights the policy impact of important new technology and explores solutions that ensure that health care innovations do not exacerbate inequities in health care access and population outcomes.
Social Policies and Health
Recognizing that factors beyond the health care system affect health, Health Affairs Scholar includes cutting-edge topics such as income inequality, housing, immigration, and ethics.
Collection Hub
Visit our collections hub to see our current and former calls for papers, as well as our Featured Papers collections.
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Reviewing for Health Affairs Scholar
Health Affairs Scholar would like to invite you to review for our open access journal of emerging and global health policy.
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Health Workforce Issues and Challenges in the Post-Pandemic Era
A new collection of articles, each developed by a federally-funded Health Workforce Research Center (HWRC).
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About Health Affairs
Health Affairs, founded in 1981 under the aegis of Project HOPE, is pleased to launch Health Affairs Scholar as a fully open access companion journal.
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