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The Help Center helps prospective authors understand submission processes for our journal, Forefront, our new open-access journal Scholar, events, and health policy briefs.
Last year, we received 2,373 journal submissions with an acceptance rate of 8 percent.
In Forefront, 33 percent of 1,136 submissions were accepted.
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Health Affairs is launching a contest! The premise is simple. Finish the statement "You’re A Health Policy Wonk If…"
We'll share some of the submissions on Forefront in July, and the first-place winner of the contest will receive a Health Affairs tumbler and a free Unlimited membership for a year. Submit by May 31.
About Health Affairs
Health Affairs is the leading peer-reviewedjournalat the intersection of health, health care, and policy. Published monthly by Project HOPE, the journal is available in print and online. Late-breaking
content is also found through healthaffairs.org, Health Affairs Today, and Health Affairs Sunday Update.
Project HOPE is a global health and humanitarian relief organization that places power in the hands of local health care workers to save lives across the globe. Project HOPE has published Health Affairs since 1981.
