TY - JOUR T1 - <em>Global Health: Science and Practice</em> … 5 Years In JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT SP - 228 LP - 231 DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00196 VL - 6 IS - 2 AU - Ruwaida M. Salem AU - Steve Hodgins Y1 - 2018/06/27 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/6/2/228.abstract N2 - Five years after launching Global Health: Science and Practice, we are seeing signs that we are helping to fill an important gap in program-related evidence. Looking forward, we seek to offer better coverage for topics that are relatively neglected in the global health literature and to publish more papers by authors based in low- and middle-income countries. We invite authors to submit manuscripts on global health programs grounded in evidence from research, evaluation, monitoring data, or experiential knowledge, and encourage readers to access and share our free articles to find scalable approaches and important lessons to inform programs and policy.See also related infographic.In the face of wide disparities in population health outcomes between high-income and low- and middle-income countries, there is a strong imperative to achieve and sustain large gains in population health. “Science,” in the sense of context-free evidence for the efficacy of clinical interventions that is typically reported in the peer-reviewed health literature, is certainly an important input to strategies to achieve such population impact. But even if we've identified an intervention for which there is sound evidence of efficacy, how can we ensure the effectiveness of delivery of such an intervention at scale, under real-world conditions? Such questions are addressed to some degree in the gray literature, but more often than not project reports lack rigor. This can result in global health program managers, policy makers, and donors reinventing the wheel, and failing to draw lessons from relevant experience elsewhere.We launched Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP) 5 years ago because the United States Agency for International Development and the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs recognized an important gap in program-relevant evidence. Our vision was to enable the global health community to better share important lessons arising from their … ER -