Gavin Yamey's blog

The following is a statement from Peter Hotez, Editor in Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, in reaction to President Bush’s announcement yesterday of a new global initiative to combat neglected tropical diseases.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases invited Dr Joana Lowell, Project Director at the non-profit Bio Ventures for Global Health, to write a Guest Blog on the upcoming Partnering for Global Health Forum.

PLoS Medicine invited Joseph Millum of the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA, and Sandra Realpe of the Council on Health Research for Development to report on the Eighth Global Forum on Bioethics in Research.

England's Secretary of State for Health has announced that from January 2008, hospital staff must wear "bare below the elbows" attire. Professor Aziz Sheikh, recently appointed to PLoS Medicine's Editorial Board, discusses the implications of the announcement.

I'm enormously excited to hear that the People's Open Access Education Initiative is taking off. PLoS will do all it can to support this project, which aims to "to build public health capacity in low- to middle-income countries, using open education resources freely available on the Internet."