Milbank Quarterly Values

Continuously published since 1923, The Milbank Quarterly is a multidisciplinary journal that seeks to improve the health of populations by connecting leaders and decision makers with the best available evidence and experience.

The Quarterly presents original research, synthesis, policy analysis, and commentary from leading thinkers, policymakers, and practitioners. Its goal is to publish scholarly papers that illuminate and add new insights to our understanding of important policy issues involving health and health care. Our audience includes the academic community, researchers working in all types of settings, and decision makers in both the public and private sectors.

We hold these values to be essential:

Objectivity

• We base all of our work on the best possible evidence and experience—gathered, evaluated, and synthesized—regardless of affiliation or ideology.

Diversity and Equity

• We believe policies and practices that promote and foster diversity and equity among all populations and individuals represent the best way to improve the health of populations. We are dedicated to pursuing diversity and equity in all that we do.

Collaboration and Community

• We believe that effective policies and programs emerge when individuals and groups with diverse views and backgrounds work together in a fashion marked by civil discourse and integrity that promotes trust.  Improving population health must take into account the needs of entire populations, not just those with access to resources.

Accountability

• We believe leadership in scholarly publication must be principled, accountable, and future-oriented.  It also must be inquisitive, pragmatic, and aware of the needs of many, in order to improve population health.