A New Editor, and a Renewed Focus on Environmental and Work Environment Justice with Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

As of this issue of New Solutions (Volume 32, Issue 1), Darius Sivin has taken the reins as Editor in Chief. Since receiving his PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Darius has spent twenty years in the labor movement, giving him a wealth of experience with occupational health on the shop floor, at the bargaining table and at the policy level. In this time, he has worked with environmental justice advocates, policymakers and with academic researchers. He brings all of this experience with him to New Solutions. Charles Levenstein was the journal’s founding editor and built it from the ground up, working closely in the first seven years (1990–1997) with the founding publisher, Tony Mazzocchi, Secretary Treasurer of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW) at the time. In 1997, the OCAW discontinued publishing the journal, which was successfully moved to Baywood Publishing, a small publisher of academic journals which included the International Journal of Health Services, a politically similar journal founded by Vincente Navarro. In 2007, a transition team of Craig Slatin, Beth Rosenberg, and Eduardo Siqueira worked to sustain the journal as Charles prepared to step down as editor. In 2011, Craig became the editor. In 2015, Baywood Publishing restructured and sold its journals to SAGE Publications which has been the publisher of New Solutions since that time. Along the way the journal has been supported by a broad network of board members, authors, reviewers, and friends. Karla Armenti and Michael Lax have long-served as the editorial board’s co-chairs. So many people at different times have made valuable contributions to the journal, organizing conferences, engaging in planning retreats, bringing in new authors, guest editing special issues, working as part of the editorial and advisory boards and the editorial team, and so many more efforts too numerous to list. Now, at the start of our thirty-second year, we are grateful to all those who have made the journal what it is today, and we look forward to the work that these networks will do with Darius to sustain New Solutions’ mission as set out by Charles Levenstein in the first issue. Too frequently... the scientists and public health professionals dealing with these [occupational and environmental public health] problems view the citizen activists and trade unionists who have been stirred to action as barbarians or hysterics who get in the way of “good science.” Professionals miss great opportunities to educate and, equally as important, to learn from this public health movement.