Health Policy and Planning publishes health policy and systems research focusing on low- and middle-income countries. The journal consists of four sections; Health Systems Research, Health Economics, Health Policy Processes and Implementation Research and Evaluation.
2020 was an extraordinary and challenging year with the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the…
Rakesh Parashar, Ankita Mukherjee (Oxford Policy Management, Delhi)
In this blog series we are giving a voice to practitioners, implementers and policy-makers involved in national COVID-19 responses in low- and middle-income countries. These posts seek to facilitate timely cross- learning by sharing opinions, insights and lessons on…
By Hamsadvani Anand Kuganantham, MBBS, MSc, HPPF; Independent consultant, Sexual and Reproductive Health
In this blogpost, we focus on maintaining access to key Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) products included in the Minimum Initial Service Package, essential maternal care medicines such as Tranexamic acid for prevention of postpartum hemorrhage and…
By Ruth Young (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Richard Mangwi (Makerere University), Maylene Shung-King (University of Cape Town) and Rosemary Morgan (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health).
Health system functioning, operation, design and governance can reflect and perpetuate broader power structures in multiple ways. This dynamic…
By Sameera Hussain (Office of Strategic Policy and Planning, Public Health Agency of Canada) and Dena Javadi (Researcher/PhD student, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health)
This supplement, a collaboration between Health Systems Global (HSG) and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR), is the product of…
By James Hargreaves (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Sandra Mounier-Jack (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Mishal Khan ((London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Kabir Sheikh (Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research)
The mainstreaming of implementation research within public health programmes around the…
By Angela Carriedo (World Public Health Nutrition Association)
The 2014 Mexican soda (sugar-sweetened beverages) tax policy supported rapid policy diffusion. It also improved the conditions within the country to progress on the obesity agenda. How and why did it happen? Our article published in Health Policy and Planning, provides…
By Natasha Salaria (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
The 2019 impact factors are now out as of July 2020, and what a year 2020 has been so far. With things being relatively unpredictable in the global sphere, our impact factor has remained well, fairly steady and similar to…
By Felicity L Brown (War Child Holland) and Wietse A Tol (University of Copenhagen)
In this blog series we are giving a voice to practitioners, implementers and policy-makers involved in national COVID-19 responses in low- and middle-income countries. These posts seek to facilitate timely cross- learning by…
By Amanda Landrian (University of California, Los Angeles)
Reducing maternal mortality remains a public health priority in many low- and middle-income countries. Great efforts have been made globally to increase institutional deliveries (versus delivering at home) as a means of addressing maternal mortality by increasing women’s access to…
Envisioning change: Learning from mental health advocacy and activism in LMICs
April 15, 2024
Health Policy and Planning’s Top 10 articles in 2023
February 27, 2024
Supporting early career women in LMICs in health through mentoring Health Equity: Access to quality services and caring for underserved Populations
November 24, 2023
India’s thirty years of investing in research for health
August 18, 2023
Health Policy and Planning’s Top 10 articles in 2022
January 17, 2023
