NEJM names a new editor-in-chief

Dr. Eric Rubin, an infectious disease specialist and public health researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will be the new editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. Rubin, whose research has focused on tuberculosis, has been serving as an associate editor for the journal since 2012. He has also been on the editorial board of other journals including PLoS Pathogens and mBio. Rubin will take over in September from Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, who has been serving as the journal’s top editor since 2000. He announced last year that he would be retiring within a year’s time.