Judith C. Hays, PhD, RN
Public Health Nursing

Editor, Public Health Nursing, 2004 to present

Prior Editor Position: Book Review Editor, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2000-2004

Years as Editor: Since 2000

Other position: Associate Professor and Chair, Accelerated BSN Program, Duke University School of Nursing

Accomplishment: Shepherding special issues to press

Best: Working with young writers to hone publication skills

Worst: Authors, copy editors and other staff who do not follow instructions.

3 words: Exacting, cautious, wordsmith

Strangest request: "Even if you rejected our manuscript, could you publish it anyway, if we respond to the reviewers’ concerns?"

If not editor?: Read, garden, travel with spouse

Relax?: Read, garden, travel with spouse