Health Affairs Journal

Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy thought and research, is published by Project HOPE. The peer-reviewed journal appears bimonthly in print with additional weekly online Web Exclusive articles. Published since 1981, The Washington Post, has called Health Affairs “the bible of health policy.”

Susan Dentzer, formerly head of the The NewsHour’s health unit, serves as the journal's Editor-in-Chief. All papers undergo external peer review and are authored by leading academics from fields that intersect with health policy-- economics, public health, sociology, political science, medicine, and nursing, to name a few. Government policymakers and health industry decision makers from the U.S. and around the globe also write for and read the journal.

Health Affairs is available via subscription, and every article the journal has ever published is available online at www.healthaffairs.org. All abstracts, tables of contents, and many articles are free access online. The journal is also free online to readers from the lowest income nations.

Health Affairs recently launched a blog at www.healthaffairs.org/blog as a new means of engaging readers in a dialogue on health policy issues of current concern.