James Hamblin

In July 2019, Hamblin married Sarah Yager, a managing editor for The Atlantic.

Hamblin is currently a staff writer for The Atlantic. He has given talks at Harvard Medical School, Wharton School of Business, South by Southwest, and TEDMED. In 2016, he served as moderator at the launch of the White House Precision Medicine Initiative where he interviewed President Barack Obama. Hamblin is a past Yale University Poynter Fellow in journalism. He is board certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine.

In 2012, Hamblin chose to pursue a career in media and joined The Atlantic and became the editor for its health channel, which had been launched in 2011. In 2013, he created an online comedy video show about health and lifestyle topics on The Atlantic website called If Our Bodies Could Talk, for which he was a finalist for a Webby award for Best Web Personality/Host and was last produced in 2017. He has been named among the 140 people to follow on Twitter by Time, and BuzzFeed has called him "the most delightful MD ever" in response to his work with that show. He also authored If Our Bodies Could Talk, a nonfiction book about human health published by Doubleday.

James Hamblin M.D. (born James Richard Hamblin; October 5, 1982) is a preventive medicine physician and staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of If Our Bodies Could Talk, a nonfiction book about human health published by Doubleday. He is a lecturer in public health at Yale University.