About

Our vision is to be recognized as a premier publication that transcends the traditional boundaries of academia to enrich discourse around issues of public health.

The mission of the Harvard Public Health Review (HPHR) is to improve health at the local, national, and international levels. To that end, HPHR will publish content grounded in thoughtful evaluation of evidence and research that addresses issues of health equity.

HPHR seeks content that:

• Spurs thoughtful and substantive discussion of challenging  public health issues
• Fosters collaboration and diversity across disciplines
• Integrates ideas and methods
• Investigates biological, psychosocial, and environmental  determinants of health
• Translates knowledge into action
• Impacts program and policy decisions and health practices
• Supports work that advances health equity

Please note that the Harvard Public Health Review blog on Medium, known as HPHR Now, is no longer publishing; but can still be viewed here.

Board of Editors

Editors-In-Chief
Circe J. Gray Le Compte (@Cressycat)
Dani Poole

Deputy Editors
Lamees El-Sadek
Silva Sachin
Alvin Tran

Associate Editors
Renzo Guinto
John Park
Caroline Pogge

Advisory Board

Gary Adamkiewicz
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Rifat Atun
Professor of Global Health Systems, 
Department of Global Health and Population,
Department of Health Policy and Management, Director of Global Health Systems Cluster,  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Robert Blendon, Sc.D.
Richard L. Menschel Professor, Harvard University

Jesse Boardman Bump, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Andrew S. Boozary, M.D., M.P.P., S.M.
Founding Editor, Harvard Public Health Review

Marco De Ambrogi
Senior Editor, The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Nir Eyal
Associate Professor of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Ana Langer, M.D
Director, Maternal Health Task Force | Women and Health Initiative,
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Ichiro Kawachi, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Social Epidemiology, Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Stephen Marks
Director, Program on Human Rights in Development, Harvard University

John McDonough, Dr.PH., M.P.A.
Director of the Center for Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Director of the Center for Public Health Leadership, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Peter Maramaldi
Professor, Hartford Faculty Scholar & National Mentor, Director of Ph.D. Program, Simmons College
Adjunct Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Tia McGill Rogers, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Ole F. Norheim
Director, Global Health Priorities, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University 

Ankur Pandya
Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Andre Picard
Health Columnist, The Globe & Mail

Vaughan W. Rees, Ph.D.
Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences, Director, Center for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Sara S. Richardson
Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Director of Graduate Studies, WGS, Harvard University

Nancy Turnbull
Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Senior Associate Dean for Professional Education, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Michael VanRooyen, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Professor of Medicine, Harvard University

Erica T. Warner, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
Assistant Investigator, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Member, Breast Cancer and Cancer Epidemiology, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

Submissions

The following sections provide detailed information about the submission process.

While HPHR will be accepting submissions throughout Summer and Fall 2016, its next publication date currently is set for Fall 2017.

General Contributor Information
HPHR invites submissions from students and faculty across academic disciplines, as well as from members of the general public that speak to the publication’s mission and vision and elucidate pertinent and timely public health issues within an evidence-based and health equity framework. To ensure a dynamic showcase for contributors’ diverse research interests, talents, and creativity. HPHR’s seeks a range of materials. Complete details about submission requirements are available here.

Materials are accepted anytime through HPHR’s online form or e-mail address: submissions@harvardpublichealthreview.org. Themes will be announced quarterly with special calls-for-contributions released in response to pressing public health issues. In general, submissions will be reviewed within 6-8 weeks of submission. Materials submitted in response to special calls-for-contributions will be reviewed in 4-6 weeks.

The HPHR editorial team may contact accepted contributors to provide a personal photograph and brief biography. Authors retain rights to their work.

Contributors who have questions about the submission process should contact the HPHR editorial team at submissions@harvardpublichealthreview.org.

Please note that this is a student publication of Harvard University’s Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Harvard University and/or Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as its students, faculty, or staff. 

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