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Chris Fleming
Deputy Editor and podcast host at Health Affairs, co-host of A Health Podyssey
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Oct 7, 2026
Building Forefront: 20 Years of Shaping Health Policy Conversations
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Rob LottHOST
Why don't you take us back to 2006? What did Health Affairs, the organization and the journal, look like at that time and And then maybe you can tell us a little bit about the process that led the organization to launch a blog.
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3:36Chris FlemingGUEST
Well, it was basically, I mean, in some ways it was the same, and in some ways it was very different.
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3:42Chris FlemingGUEST
I mean, Health Affairs, you know, from the start has always been, its mission has been to really make health policy and health policy research accessible to people, you know, modeled on Ford Affairs in that way.
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3:58Chris FlemingGUEST
But it was also very different in the sense that it was, you know, there was the peer-reviewed journal, We still were not publishing every month.
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4:08Chris FlemingGUEST
It was only every other month at that time for another, I think, three years.
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4:19Chris FlemingGUEST
We didn't have some of the different ways of engaging with people, webinars, interactive graphics that we do now.
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Rob LottHOST
What do you think makes it stand out if we think about the name Forefront? What is it that has brought Forefront to the front and center, to the edge in this health policy publishing space? What makes it stand out?