Kerman University of Medical Sciences International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2322-5939 10 Special Issue on Analysing the Politics of Health Policy Change in LMICs 2021 07 01 Introduction to the Special Issue on “Analysing the Politics of Health Policy Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The HPA Fellowship Programme 2017-2019” 360 363 4039 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.43 EN Lucy Gilson Health Policy and Systems Division, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK 0000-0002-2775-7703 Zubin Cyrus Shroff The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Maylene Shung-King Health Policy and Systems Division, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 0000-0003-2281-8631 Journal Article 2021 04 13 This special issue presents a set of seven Health Policy Analysis (HPA) papers that offer new perspectives on health policy decision-making and implementation. They present primary empirical work from four countries in Asia and Africa, as well as reviews of literature about a wider range of low- and middle-income country (LMIC) experience. https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4039_1cd73be1e256a7405516501e94e892ac.pdf