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Health Affairs Scholar, Health Affairs' open access journal, marks its second anniversary by achieving indexing in leading indices, a preliminary Impact Factor, and more than 250,000 full-text downloads in 2024.

In her latest Overview: From the Editor, Editor-in-Chief Kathryn Phillips reflects on the journal’s growing impact, highlighting key milestones from its first two years.

Editor’s Choice

Post-release behavioral healthcare utilization and suicide risk among formerly incarcerated individuals

Min Jang et al.

The financial impact of NIH’s indirect cost cap on higher education research

Eric W. Ford and Timothy R. Huerta

Research Articles

Evaluating the normative implications of national and international artificial intelligence policies for Sustainable Development Goal 3: good health and well-being

Francesca Mazzi

Policy changes to US federal infant feeding laws and regulations from 2014-2023: evidence that the 2022 infant formula shortage had a narrow policy impact

Paige B. Harrigan et al.

Research Letters

Medicare Advantage benefits design and access to surgeons

Jessica Billig et al.

Early estimates of awareness and uptake of over-the-counter naloxone

Mireille Jacobson and David Powell

Uché Blackstock on The Multi-Faceted Policies to Achieve Health Equity

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Uché Blackstock, CEO and Founder of Advancing Health Equity (AHE), on her experiences founding AHE in 2019, the mission statement of the organization to pursue health equity in health care, and her generational memoir, LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.

Senate Republicans Pass Budget Reconciliation Legislation: What’s New In The Coverage Provisions?

Katie Keith

part of our Health Policy At A Crossroads series

Public Health Law Vacuums: A Present And Future Threat

Richard M. Weinmeyer and Daniel Goldberg

Reform Reversed: How Drug Policy Has Changed In Three States

Aditya Narayan and Sarah E. Wakeman