Eric Rubin, MD, PhD
Editor-in Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
Eric Rubin has been editor-in-chief at the New England Journal of Medicine since 2019 after serving as an associate editor for several years. He is an infectious disease physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a tuberculosis researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Rubin holds an AB degree from Harvard College and MD and PhD degrees from Tufts University. He was a resident and clinical fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rubin was the Irene Heinz Given Professor and chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease before joining NEJM full-time but continues to do lab work at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he is an adjunct professor. He is also professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Rachel Gotbaum
Health and Science Journalist
Host, "Intention to Treat" Podcast, New England Journal of Medicine
Rachel Gotbaum is a nationally award-winning health care journalist with more than two decades of experience reporting and hosting audio documentaries, narrative features, breaking news, and podcasts. She is host and producer of the New England Journal of Medicine podcast “Intention to Treat.” Ms. Gotbaum has worked as an editor, reporter, and producer on several national radio programs, including for NPR’s All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, and Here and Now. Her stories can be found at NPR, Marketplace, CBC Radio, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, PRX’s The World and Kaiser Health News.
Ms. Gotbaum’s focus is often reporting on the culture of medicine and how it affects all aspects of health care, including policy and patient outcomes.
Elizabeth Cooney
Reporter & Morning Rounds Writer, STAT
Liz Cooney is a reporter and author of the Morning Rounds newsletter. She joined STAT in 2017 and has worked as a general assignment reporter and STAT+ editor. Prior to that, she was the Boston Globe’s inaugural White Coat Notes blogger, before moving on to science writing and editing stints at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Most months you’ll find her training for marathons.
Mallika Marshall, MD
Medical Reporter, CBS News Boston, WBZ-TV4
Staff Physician, MGH Chelsea Urgent Care
Mallika Marshall, MD, is an Emmy-award-winning journalist and physician who has served as the HealthWatch Anchor for CBS Boston/WBZ-TV for over 20 years. A practicing physician Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Dr. Marshall serves on staff at Harvard Medical School and practices at Massachusetts General Hospital at the MGH Chelsea Urgent Care and the MGH Revere Health Center. She is also a Host and Senior Medical Editor for Harvard Health Publications (HHP), the publishing division of Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Marshall has more than two decades of media and communications experience on both national and local television as well as on multiple digital platforms. In addition to her role as the HealthWatch Anchor at CBS Boston since 2000, she has been a regular contributor on the CBS Early Show, the CBS Evening News, CBS Newspath, the digital streaming news service CBSN, and was the Medical Contributor on Katie Couric’s daytime talk show “Katie.” She also served as the Medical Director for Everyday Health, digital media’s popular source of medical news. Dr. Marshall hosted “Dr. Mallika Marshall,” a series of health news reports that was nationally syndicated and aired in more than 70 markets, including major cities such as San Francisco, Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Houston. She was also an Associate Editor of the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide and a Contributing Editor for the Harvard Medical School affiliated website, InteliHealth.
A graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Marshall received her medical degree with high honors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She completed her medical residency at Harvard in both internal medicine and pediatrics.
Katherine J. Wu, PhD
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Katherine J. Wu is a staff writer for The Atlantic, where she covers science. She’s also a Story Collider senior producer and a senior editor at The Open Notebook. She previously served as a science reporter for The New York Times, where she reported on the COVID-19 pandemic. She won a Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication in 2022, a Science in Society journalism award in 2021, and the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists in 2020. She holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from Harvard University.
