Stanford University
300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94304
USA
Speaker: Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH, MA, MRCP
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Bio-statistics
University of California, San Francisco
Join us for the next Conversation in Global Health, featuring Dr. Gavin Yamey from UCSF. The event will be held on March 4 in LKSC Room 120 from 4:00-5:00 pm. 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, and currently leads the Evidence-to-Policy Initiative (E2Pi) at UCSF.
Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH, MA, MRCP, is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatics at the UCSF School of Medicine and is Lead ofE2Pi in the UCSF Global Health Group, which works to narrow the gap between evidence and action in global health policy.
He has undergraduate and masters degrees in physiological sciences (medicine) from Oxford University. Dr. Yamey did his medical training at Oxford University and University College London, qualifying as a physician in 1994. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1997. He worked for five years in a variety of London teaching hospitals, followed by a fellowship in medical journalism and editing at the BMJ. His public health training was at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Dr. Yamey serves on two international health commissions, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health and the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. He led the writing of Global Health 2035, the report of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, which was published on December 3, 2013.