Forum for Health Economics & Policy
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Editor-in-Chief:
John Romley
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Managing Editor:
Bryan Tysinger
About this journal
Objective
The Forum for Health Economics & Policy (FHEP) aims to promote research on the most pressing and timely issues in health economics and health policy. The journal showcases articles to advance our understanding of the economic and societal implications of health and health care, with a particular focus on the value of innovation ranging across medicines and other types of health technologies. Topics of special interest include the societal value of new medical technologies; pharmacoeconomics and generalized cost-effectiveness analysis (GCEA); revealed values and preferences for treatment; affordable care for aging populations; R&D investment and its externalities; policy challenges for health care innovators and investors; and market failures and potential solutions. FHEP’s ultimate objective is to promote better health, productivity, and well-being via more efficient resource allocation.
FHEP aims to bridge the gap between academic theory of market dynamics and how market participants – including employers, payors, providers, investors, regulators, and patients – make decisions. For example, why do insurance plans cover treatments that health economists assess as cost-ineffective? Why do investor perceptions of the impact of policy change often differ from those of academics?
To this end, the journal emphasizes an evidence-based approach to understand human behavior and assess social value and welfare, with the goal of informing policy decisions. And even then, FHEP approaches policy discussion with the recognition that the complexity of human society exceeds our best efforts to model its dynamics and that any policy may have unintended consequences that, if not predicted, should be rapidly surfaced so that the policy can be reassessed and potentially fixed.
Topics
- Economics
- Political economics
- Biomedical research and the economy
- Aging and medical care costs
- Nursing
- Cancer studies
- Medical treatment
- Others related
Article formats
Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Research Reports
Your Benefits
- Original and innovative research methodology
- Cross-disciplinary approach to health economics and policy
- Rapid publications thanks to ahead of print publishing
- Versatile platform for researchers and practitioners interested in topics of FHEP
History
Two issues/year, updated continuously
Content available since 1998 (Volume 1, Issue 1)
ISSN: 1558-9544
CiteScore | 1.3 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
SCImago Journal Rank | 0.204 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 0.406 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Submission
Online Submission of Manuscripts
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- High quality peer review
- Increasing Impact Factor
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Editors-in-Chief
John Romley, University of Southern California, USA
Managing Editor:
Bryan Tysinger, University of Southern California, USA
Editors
Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University, USA
David Cutler, Harvard University, USA
Abe Dunn, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, USA
Alan Garber, Harvard University, USA
Dana Goldman, University of Southern California and RAND Corporation, USA
David Grabowski, Harvard University, USA
Mireille Jacobson, University of California, Irvine, USA
Anupam Jena, Harvard University, USA
Pinar Karaca Mandic, University of Minnesota, USA
Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago, USA
Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California, USA
Editorial Board
Katherine Baicker, Harvard University, USA
Ernst Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University, USA
Michael Chernew, University of Michigan, USA
Alain Enthoven, Stanford University, USA
Richard Epstein, University of Chicago, USA
Amy Finkelstein, Harvard University, USA
Victor Fuchs, Stanford University, USA
Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Michael Grossman, City University of New York, USA
Arie Kapteyn, RAND Corporation, USA
Darius Lakdawalla, RAND Corporation, USA
David Meltzer, University of Chicago, USA
Mark Rosenzweig, Harvard University, USA
Mark Pauly, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Charles Phelps, University of Rochester, USA
James P. Smith, RAND Corporation, USA
William Vogt, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Gail Wilensky, Project HOPE, USA
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