A leading practitioner, researcher and former journalist, Gavin Yamey will speak with Paul Costello, the medical school's chief communications officer, on timely and pressing issues in global health.
February 19, 2015
Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California-San Francisco, will discuss some of the most timely and pressing issues in global health March 4 in a conversation with Paul Costello, the Stanford School of Medicine’s chief communications officer.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in room 120 of the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge.
A frequent policy adviser to international ministers of health, Yamey was one of the founding editors of PLOS Medicine and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the first open-access journal devoted specifically to neglected diseases, such as elephantiasis, river blindness and schistosomiasis, endemic to tropical regions. He now leads UCSF’s Evidence to Policy Initiative, which works to narrow the gap between evidence and action in global health policy.
Yamey is also one of the authors of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health’s 2013 report, Global Health 2035, which provides a roadmap for how dramatic gains in global health might be achieved by 2035.
Yamey’s discussion is part of the Conversations in Global Health series, organized by Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health.
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