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Our audience. We write for people who have the power to make change: Public health leaders, policy makers, and advocates.
Our journalism. We publish features, analysis, investigations, and opinion. We welcome pitches from freelance journalists and opinion writers, including academics. We are editorially independent and nonpartisan. Most of our stories are available for republishing. There are some restrictions, so see our guidelines for details.
Expectations. We follow journalistic practices, standards, and ethics, most notably as outlined by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Our stories go through multiple rounds of editing. We fact-check pieces in accordance with the KSJ Fact-Checking Project’s guidelines, with significant features receiving the deeper “magazine model” treatment and our shorter items receiving the “newspaper model,” as outlined in the State of Fact-Checking in Science Journalism.
Disclosures and conflicts. We expect journalists and commentary writers working with us to disclose upfront all potential conflicts of interest related to their subject, financial or otherwise. Writers must disclose gifts greater than $25, coverage of expenses, certain speaking fees, and other favors that could compromise their integrity. Fee waivers at conferences and events may be accepted if routinely granted to members of the media.
Our relationship with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Though editorially independent, we are owned and published by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The magazine benefits from the University’s resources, including access to prominent faculty, researchers, and visitors. The Harvard Public Health advisory board, a non-fiduciary body established to advise on editorial and business strategy, includes members with ties to Harvard. Despite these relationships, Harvard Public Health is not expected to give special favor to people or research associated with the Harvard Chan School. Pieces published on the site are not intended to reflect the views of the school.
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Editor in Chief
Michael Fitzgerald
Managing Editor
Jina Moore Ngarambe
Senior Editors
Kathleen Burge
Amy Roeder
Creative Director
Ben S. Wallace
Art Director
Mary Delaware
Senior Photo Editor
Kent Dayton
Associate Director, Audience Development
Pamela Reynoso
Social Media Manager and Audience Engagement Specialist
Jo Zhou
Copy Editor
Leslie Cauldwell
Advisory Board
Ivor Braden Horn, MD, MPH, independent adviser
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO & publisher, MIT Technology Review
Adi Ignatius, editor in chief, Harvard Business Review
Avenel Joseph, interim executive vice president, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Raj Kumar, president and editor in chief, Devex.com
Clifton Leaf, global fellow, Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, and former editor in chief, FORTUNE
Angus Macauley, chief revenue officer, STAT
Robin Mejia, assistant teaching professor, department of biostatistics, University of Washington
Gabriella Stern, director of communications, World Health Organization
Elisabeth Rosenthal, senior contributing editor and former editor in chief, Kaiser Health News
Richard J. Tofel, principal, Gallatin Advisory LLC
Linda Villarosa, journalist in residence, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
Michelle A. Williams, former dean of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jenny Yip, health care investor and startup executive