Jocalyn Clark

Jocalyn Clark joins the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health as a Writing Consultant. She will work one day per week with faculty and students at the MRC providing editorial assistance and training in writing for publication, good publication practice, and dissemination/publication planning.

Jocalyn's main job is Senior Editor at PLoS Medicine, one of two flagship journals of the open access publisher Public Library of Science. Jocalyn joined PLoS in January 2008 after 5 years at the British Medical Journal (BMJ) where she was first editorial registrar and then assistant editor and project manager of the international campaign to revitalise academic medicine. During her time at BMJ she was involved in peer review, writing news and editorials, and commissioning, and she edited special theme issues on A Good Death (with Peter Singer), Academic Medicine, and Africa. She has written extensively on issues related to good publication and editorial practices, global health, gender, and health care.
 
Jocalyn did undergraduate studies in biochemistry and microbiology and then an MSc and PhD in public health sciences. She worked as a health services researcher at St. Michael's Hospital focusing on access to care, gender, and performance measurement. She has a keen interest in open access publishing, knowledge translation, and global health equity. Jocalyn is an assistant professor of medicine (adjunct) at the University of Toronto, a member of the Council of Science Editors and the Society for General Internal Medicine, and serves on the editorial policy committee of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).