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Public Library of Science comes to NYU

Monday, 11.06.2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Links

I’m happy to announce our next event: Gavin Yamey from the Public Library of Science will be joining us next week on the 15th at 6:30pm to give a presentation. We’ve co-sponsored the evening with the Information Law Institute Student Association, who will be providing us a luxurious room at the law school:

Gavin Yamey, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine

Gavin Yamey is a product of three continents – he was born in Cape Town, raised in London, and now lives in San Francisco. He studied medicine at the University of Oxford and University College London, graduating in 1994. After five years of working as a physician in a variety of settings – including an AIDS hospice, a dialysis ward, and a brain injuries unit – he joined the British Medical Journal (BMJ)in 1999 as a trainee in medical journalism and editing. In 2001, he moved to San Francisco to be the deputy editor of the Western Journal of Medicine, published by the BMJ and the University of California. Gavin has written extensively on global health, malaria, and HIV/AIDS, and has helped to train medical editors at workshops in Barcelona and Addis Ababa.

Gavin will be presenting on his work for open access, global health, and The Public Library of Science. The Public Library of Science is an open-access academic journal that publishes all of its articles under Creative Commons Attribution licenses.

Free Culture @ NYU and The Information Law Institute Student Association Present:
Gavin Yamey of Public Library of Science
Wednesday, November 15th at 6:30pm
NYU Law School, Furman Hall 326
245 Sullivan Street
Free and open to the public (bring ID if non-NYU)