Call for Manuscripts – Medical Readiness Issue
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2026
Publication Date: December 2026
The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (YJBM) will be publishing an issue devoted to the topic of Medical Readiness. We are inviting authors to submit original research articles, reviews, case reports, or perspectives within this field.
Specific subtopics include:
- Health system resilience and surge capacity
- Workforce readiness and flexibility
- Public health and emergency preparedness infrastructure
- Hospital and regional coordination
- Supply chains and access to critical resources
- Governance across national, regional, and local levels
- Public–private partnerships and innovation
- Cross-national lessons from COVID-19 and other system shocks
- Medicare and Medicaid policy and financing
- Health care spending and health economics
- Pharmaceutical regulation and oversight
- Vaccine policy and immunization systems
- Health systems governance structures
- Comparative analyses of national health systems
- Policy reform and health care innovation
Those unsure whether their manuscript matches the issue topic can contact the deputy editors: Alexander Sewersky (alexander.sewersky@yale.edu) and Akshada Parulekar (akshada.parulekar@yale.edu).
YJBM is a PubMed-indexed, open-access journal whose mission is to provide graduate students and medical students with experience in writing, reviewing, and publishing articles. The journal has been in publication since 1928 and is supported by an editorial board made up of both students and faculty members. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed by faculty in the field and there is no publication fee. YJBM has a Scopus CiteScore of 5.1 for 2024 and an Impact Factor of 3.9 for 2024.
The length of the manuscript can vary depending on the article type. Author guidelines are available on the journal website. As part of YJBM’s equity efforts, we offer double-blind peer review. While we encourage anonymized submissions, we also accept unblinded manuscripts for single-blind review, where reviewer identities remain anonymous.