Health Affairs is planning a thematic issue on global progress and remaining challenges in achieving the goals of the Decade of Vaccines, the international effort to expand vaccine coverage to all children by 2020. The decade mid-point provides an opportune moment to analyze progress, reflect on implementation lessons, and adjust strategies and allocate resources to effectively achieve goals.
We invite all interested authors to submit abstracts for consideration for this issue. Abstracts must be submitted by Monday, June 8, 2015.
Previously, the Health Affairs global issue of 2011 covered the launch of the Decade of Vaccines. That issue featured analysis of the challenges of extending access to vaccines for the world’s poorest people in lower- and middle-income countries and creating sustainable financing and support for immunization programs. In addition, articles covered strategies for the US to ensure equal and timely access to vaccines and improve parental confidence in vaccines.
The 2016 Health Affairs issue on vaccines will examine progress from 2010-2015 in accelerating vaccine introduction and the impact on child health and survival, the economic benefits of expanded coverage, and policy lessons from experience. The issue will also examine economic and financing issues related to achieving the goals of the Decade of Vaccines, including sustainable financing, strategies to address financing gaps, equity issues, health system strengthening, vaccine hesitancy and public-private partnerships to expand access.
We plan to publish 15-20 peer-reviewed articles including research, analyses, and commentaries from leading researchers and scholars, analysts, industry experts, and health and health care stakeholders. Several papers will provide broad overviews of key issues, but we are particularly interested in empirical analyses of specific policies, programs, and practices that cover progress and challenges in expanding vaccine coverage over 2010-2015, as well as perspectives on addressing coverage and financing gaps, safety and regulatory issues, and policy challenges for 2015-2020. Papers will focus on issues of interest to public policy makers and private leaders in the health care and related sectors.
Request for Abstracts
We invite all interested authors to submit abstracts for consideration for this issue. Editors will review the abstracts and, for those that best fit our vision and goals, invite authors to submit papers for consideration for the issue.
In order to be considered, abstracts must be submitted by midnight, EDT, Monday, June 8, 2015. We regret that we will not be able to consider any abstracts submitted after that date.
More information on topics and themes for this issue, as well as process guidelines and timetables, is available below and on the Health Affairs website.
Abstract Submission Requirements
Abstract submissions should not exceed 500 words, and should include (in this order):
- proposed title
- author names and affiliations
- abstract
- name and contact information for the corresponding author below the abstract
Please consult our online guidelines for additional formatting instructions and answers to frequently asked questions.
If you wish to submit an abstract, please send it as an e-mail attachment to healthaffairs_vaccines_abstracts@projecthope.org.
We thank you for your time and consideration. Please feel free to pass this invitation along to colleagues who might be interested, as well.
If you have questions about this request, please email vaccines_queries@healthaffairs.org.
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