Conversations in Global Health Featuring Gavin Yamey

A leading global health researcher and former journalist, Professor Gavin Yamey will speak with Paul Costello, Stanford Medicine's chief communications officer, on timely and pressing issues in global health. 

Gavin Yamey is associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the UCSF School of Medicine and is Lead of the Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi) in the UCSF Global Health Group, which works to narrow the gap between evidence and action in global health policy.

A frequent policy advisor to international ministers of health, Dr. 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 endemic to tropical regions. He currently serves on two international health commissions - the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health and the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery - and led the writing of Global Health 2035, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health's 2013 report, which provides a roadmap for how dramatic gains in global health might be achieved by 2035. Dr. Yamey has written extensively on global health, neglected diseases, health policy, inequalities and disparities in health with over 100 published articles in peer-reviewed journals.

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