TY - JOUR T1 - What Potential Authors Should Know About Publishing in <em>Global Health: Science and Practice</em> JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT SP - 426 LP - 427 DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00540 VL - 9 IS - 3 AU - Stephen Hodgins AU - Sonia Abraham Y1 - 2021/09/30 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/9/3/426.abstract N2 - In 2013, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs launched Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP), responding to what we saw as an important gap in access to robust program-related evidence in global health. It was our conviction that a new kind of journal1 could both bridge that gap and better serve those engaged directly in program work. Our vision was to contribute to stronger, more effective programs and policies, helping to achieve greater population health impact.2 It has also been our ambition to exercise influence on global health-related publishing more broadly, shifting norms on inquiry into and documentation of program implementation issues, ultimately to better inform global health policy and practice.The “practice” in GHSP’s name has remained a central focus. As with other peer-reviewed journals, we certainly have been striving to contribute to evidence-based practice. What is not so typical of journals in this field, but that has been a central preoccupation for us is practice-based evidence—lessons that can be drawn from actual programs, especially those implemented at scale.For programs to be more effective and achieve greater impact, the various actors of the system that create and use practice-based evidence need to be better connected.3 Program developers and managers, policy makers, advocates, and researchers need to be in continuous dialog, … ER -