HEHP is under the scientific control of the Editorial Board, whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. The Editor-in-Chief, who is well-known in the journal’s scope, is delegated some executive roles of the Editorial Board members.

Duties of Editors

- The editor-in-chief is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.

- The editors may be guided by the policies of the editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

- An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

- The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

- Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's research without the express written consent of the author.