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Jocalyn Clark
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International Editor @bmj_latest Former @TheLancet @PLOSMedicine @icddr_b Adj prof @UofT_DOM @UCLGlobalHealth Canadian in London 🇨🇦🇬🇧 #TeamLH Views mine 🖌️
- “Pandemic profits are so immense that billionaires could provide a $3,000 Covid stimulus payment to every man, woman & child in the US & still be richer than they were 9 months ago.”
- 📍Personal news📍I’m excited to be joining The BMJ as International Editor❗️ 20 years after starting my editorial career @bmj_latest I am returning to help deliver its ambitious & vital global vision to improve the health and wellbeing (& equity) of people and the planet 🌐🔹🎯
- Let me wash that out for ya 📢 “There cannot be excellence without equity” “There cannot be excellence without equity” “There cannot be excellence without equity” “There cannot be excellence without equity”
- 6 months to the day that I wrote our lead @TheLancet editorial on a mysterious new pneumonia-like outbreak drafting it in 3 hours instead of the usual 3 days. Colleagues gave input in 1 h instead of 24 h. 6 months for the world to change forever. #writing
- “The default health worker is a woman so it is right that we take time to recognize and applaud the work of women. It is my intention that we will care for you as you have cared for us.” @DrTedros, @WHO at the #HeroinesofHealth award gala
- Replying to @jocalynclarkOn the myth of meritocracy “underlying biases are causing current systems to bypass highly capable women & other minority groups. We are drawing heterosexual, white men from much further down the distribution of talent than for other social categories.”
- 🌐💥 For the 1st time since 1840, Decolonisation takes over the BMJ print issue 💥🌐
- Today we publish a piece calling 4 more balanced representation in @TheLancet Commissions. Transparency & publication of external 'audits' is part of our #DiversityandInclusion #LancetWomen commitments. We promised to track progress & improve! thelancet.com/journals/lance…
- More than 50% women 🙌🏼 incredible effort & positive change by chief Editors of all 18 Lancet journals👇🏼 Let’s start a trend for other journals @choo_ek @reshmajagsi @JulieSilverMDReplying to @TheLancetWe are delighted to announce that in January 2020, our editorial advisory boards now comprise 50.6% women overall (range 35% to 63%). Across 19 journals, 16 have more than 50% women members.
- 1 week to go #LancetCanada - our 1st-ever @TheLancet series on Canada's health system and global health leadership: its legacy, the future, and the responsibilities of Canada in an uncertain world. Hot off the printing press, this will land online Feb 23.
- Big news! Today we launch our new #LancetWomen hub of content on #genderequity & advancing #womeninmedicine #womeninGH #womeninSTEM thelancet.com/lancet-women We will update it regularly in the months leading to our theme issue in early 2019.
