Academic publisher SAGE recently announced the appointment of Dr. Sally Solomon Cohen as Editor-in-Chief of Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice (PPNP), a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal focusing on nursing and health policy. Cohen succeeds Dr. David M. Keepnews, who served as Editor-in-Chief since 2004. Keepnews will serve as Consulting Editor to PPNP during a transition period.
Cohen has been PPNP Deputy Editor since 2012. She holds the Virginia P. Crenshaw Endowed Chair at the College of Nursing at the University of New Mexico, where she is also Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and was recently selected by the American Nurses Association and the American Nurses Foundation as Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies beginning September 1, 2014.
In addition to her current position at the University of New Mexico, Cohen held faculty positions at Yale and Columbia. She is widely recognised for her expertise on child health policy and is author of the book Championing Child Care, in which she analysed three decades of national childcare policies and politics.
