Dr Jocalyn Clark

I'm a medical journal editor, public health scientist + global health connoisseur with a passion for research impact & gender equity in science

Executive Editor, The Lancet

former Executive Editor at icddr,b in Dhaka, Bangladesh (+ Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition), where I also trained doctors in scientific writing & publication

former Senior Editor at PLOS Medicine

former Assistant Editor at BMJ

Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Scientific Advisor to INDEPTH Network and Global Health 50/50

At The Lancet, I write + edit a broad range of content in clinical medicine & global health. I lead #LancetWomen

I love to write + teach on global health, gender/women's health, social determinants of health + publishing (see past blogs Speaking of Medicine, GCC, The Guardian & The BMJ)

Check out my 4-part series on The Medicalization of Global Health for which I received a 2013 Bellagio Center Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. More at The BMJ.

In 2019 I was elected to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh