Jul 26, 2018  |  12:00pm - 2:00pm
Seminar

Publication Advice Seminar: Dr. Jocalyn Clark

General Internal Medicine

DoM Faculty Member Jocalyn Clark (GIM) has offered to put on a lunch time interactive seminar focusing on those embarking on publication careers looking for advice about how to attract editors’ attention. This session is open to junior faculty, interested trainees, and those new to submitting publications.

Jocalyn Clark
Please RSVP if you would like to attend, as space is limited. A light lunch will be provided.

Jocalyn Clark is Executive Editor at The Lancet in London, UK where she leads the Comment section, handles peer review and commissioning of content, serves on the journal’s global health and leader writing teams, and leads the journal’s #LancetWomen project. Previously Jocalyn was an Assistant Editor at The BMJ (2002-07), Senior Editor at PLOS Medicine (2008-13), and Executive Editor of Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition and icddr,b in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2013-16). Since 2006 Jocalyn has also been an adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada. In 2013 she held a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, which produced a 5-part Series critiquing the medicalisation of global health and in 2014 she was named among the Top 100 women leaders in global health. Jocalyn has a BSc in biochemistry & microbiology and a MSc and PhD in public health sciences, the latter of which was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research at the University of Toronto. Jocalyn is dedicated to building capacity and the visibility of investigators and institutions from the Global South, and is a recognised leader in the mechanics of writing, publishing, publication ethics, and global and women’s health. She has over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Jocalyn Clark