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In 2021 we announced our commitment to advance health equity
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through research and practice at Health Affairs.

Our goals for the project, which began in 2020 and launched with funding
from the Colorado Health Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, are to:

1. Ensure racial/ethnic diversity of journal authors and reviewers

2. Increase the quality and quantity of published content on racial
health equity

3. Address our own biases as part of the publishing enterprise

4. Lead transformation in improving racial equity alongside other
health-associated journals

Our plan to achieve these goals was based on three principles:

1. Equitable Participation

For a journal, equity begins with authors, reviewers, and editors.

Therefore, it is important to ensure diversity among these contributors
based on race/ethnicity and other identifiers such as gender and
affiliated academic institutions.

2. New Voices

Dominant voices in health policy and health services research are often
of those who possess some aspect of power and privilege - even in the
subject area of racial health equity.

To break this cycle, we must develop programming that incorporates
research or program outcomes from institutions or community
organizations that have historically not been well represented in
scholarly publishing.

3. Introspection

For Health Affairs to lead in advancing equity, we must be introspective
and understand our own biases that contribute inequities in scholarly
publishing.

This can also be accomplished by communicating with other scholarly
publishing enterprises, which may share similar biases and can share
recommended solutions for addressing them.

"A Seat For All"

In a peer-reviewed article published in Learned Publishing
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Health Equity Vabren Watts and others from the Health Affairs team
shared our journey to advance racial equity in scholarly publishing of
health policy and health services research.

This afternoon we published an update on Health Affairs Forefront
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about our progress since 2020 - what we have achieved and what we have
learned.
Our hope is that by sharing our story, we might help your organization
join us in this journey.

Please help us share this message with your networks and across social
media.

If you're interested in learning more about the project or how you can
support our work, please get in touch at [email protected].

Thank you.

-
Your friends at Health Affairs

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What You Will Learn

1. Racial bias, either unconscious or conscious, can be present in
practices and procedures within scholarly publishing.

2. To address racial biases, enterprises within scholarly publishing can
create a thoughtful and sustainable strategy to work to minimize such
bias.

3. Success is set by an organization's leadership and cannot be
accomplished solely by one person or division focused on equity (for
example, Health Equity Director or Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Committee).

4. Resources are required. Advancing and sustaining aspects of equity or
health equity requires time and financial allocations. Hiring
appropriate staff to lead and implement strategy is imperative.

5. Be prepared to accept critical feedback. Draw upon external experts
in equity to help guide your strategy. Learn from your mistakes.

6. Make the journal's equity goals public as a mechanism for
accountability.

7. Be open to modifying or appending your equity strategy. As some
inequities are addressed, others may be exposed.

8. Showing is as important as telling.

9. Be intentional and inclusive to improve procedures and practices that
provide equitable opportunities for all who engage with the publication.

10. Elevate the voices of historically excluded racial and ethnic
groups, women, people with disability, LGBTQ+ population, and others who
have been underrepresented.

If you want to read the Health Equity newsletter to keep up with our
health equity efforts, sign up for Health Affairs Insider
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About Health Affairs

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health care, and policy. Published monthly by Project HOPE, the journal
is available in print and online. Late-breaking content is also found
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health care workers to save lives across the globe. Project HOPE has
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