Over this past summer, I took a short sabbatical after being awarded a mini-fellowship in global health reporting. For my fellowship, I…
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General Telegraph feature on scaling up mosquito netsRead more
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General PLoS Medicine is 5 this weekRead more
It’s five years this week since PLoS Medicine‘s inaugural issue. We’ve taken this opportunity to reflect on the past five years and…
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Public Mental health in KenyaRead more
On Sept 8 2009 I blogged about Kenya’s science cafés, and on October 13 2009 I blogged about the launch of PLoS…
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General Protecting hospitals from natural disastersRead more
Today is the UN’s International Day for Disaster Reduction. This year the UN is dedicating the day to highlighting the need to…
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Mental Health Action on global mental healthRead more
Last Friday, I attended the launch of the Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH), a high profile event held at the London…
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Access Meeting the challenge of health information access with open online collaborationRead more
Guest blog by Sophie Beauvais, Communications & Web Content Manager, Global Health Delivery Project and Anat Rosenthal, research fellow, Department of Global…
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Collections Series on mental health in low and middle income countriesRead more
Packages of Care for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders in Low and Middle Income Countries: Between October 2009 and February 2010…
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General PLoS Medicine 5th birthday paper competition – last week of voting!Read more
There is now only a week to go before our competition (to find the best medical paper published under an open-access license anywhere…
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Public Buying a Coke in Africa: are there lessons for malaria?Read more
Many African countries face serious shortages of essential global health tools, such as malaria drugs and mosquito nets. Often when these shortages…
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General Uniting Tanzanian Medical Students to Reverse the Brain DrainRead more
Guest blog by Evance L Mmbando, 3rd year medical student, Weill-Bugando University College of Health Sciences, Tanzania According to the World Health…
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Access Data sharing after publicationRead more
A paper published in PLoS ONE (Empirical Study of Data Sharing by Authors Publishing in PLoS Journals) last week highlighted the very…
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Ghostwriting Wyeth Ghostwriting Documents Added to Drug Industry Document ArchiveRead more
Guest blog by Kim Klausner, Tobacco Digital Library Manager, University of California, San Francisco, USA We’re pleased to announce the addition to…