Environmental Health Perspectives, a leading public health journal published by NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, will have a new editor-in-chief soon. An NIEHS spokesperson Emailed the list of finalists for the position to The Scientist. The three finalists, all of them government employees, are:

Mike Cunningham - Toxicologist, National Toxicology Program, NIEHS

Hugh Tilson - National Program Director, Human Health Research Program, Office of Research and Development, EPA

Richard Wiggins - Senior Science Advisor, Research Planning and Coordination Staff National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory Office of Research and Development, EPA

Several NIEHS scientists evaluated applications and narrowed the list of candidates to three, and Bill Martin, associate director of NIEHS' office of translational research is serving as the selecting official. According to the NIEHS, "The evaluation process is underway and an appointment will be made when this process is complete."

This news comes after a congressional hearing on Tuesday, during which Samuel Wilson, acting director of NIEHS, promised to restore full funding to EHP, which saw its funding cut by almost one million dollars from 2005 to 2007.

Tell us who you think should be the next editor-in-chief of EHP. And stay tuned to The Scientist for more on the journal and NIEHS.

CORRECTION: The original version of this blog referred incorrectly to an incident involving someone else by the name of Hugh Tilson from North Carolina. The Scientist regrets this error.