The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) has announced the appointment of Dr. Susan Redline as the new Editor-in-Chief of its award-winning journal, Sleep Health. Dr. Redline, a leading expert in sleep medicine, holds the Peter C. Farrell Professorship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and serves as a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She will assume the role from Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD, of Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Redline’s extensive research focuses on how genetics, early life development, and environmental exposures impact sleep health. Her work also examines how social and environmental factors contribute to sleep disparities and their role in driving chronic health inequities. Additionally, she explores the potential of sleep interventions to improve outcomes in cardiovascular, metabolic, and cognitive health.
Sleep Health, published by Elsevier, has gained recognition for its contributions to the field, earning the Best New Journal/SMT Award from the Association of American Publishers. The journal boasts a 2023 5-Year Impact Factor of 4.4 and ranks in the 76th percentile among behavioral neuroscience journals.
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