Jocalyn Clark

Jocalyn Clark is a Canadian Public Health Scientist and the International Editor [1] of The BMJ, with responsibility for strategy and internationalising the journal's content, contributors and coverage.

[14] Clark was offered a postdoctoral position at University of California, San Francisco, but chose to move to London UK to take up the post of editorial registrar at The BMJ.

She was the first to write an editorial in a medical journal on the use of rape as a tool of war [16] and about the problems with the food and beverage industry in health.

[17][14] Clark believes that PLOS are uniquely positioned to comment on global health issues as they are open-access and do not take money from the pharmaceutical industry.

Clark served as Executive Editor of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and its Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition and she also trained doctors in scientific writing and publication.

[28] Clark is committed to gender equality in science, whether that is in medical trials, research groups or scientific publishing.

[29] The list was established to help conference organisers, journal editors, the media and funding bodies identify more diverse experts.

During Clark's tenure at The Lancet, the proportion of women (and colleagues from low or middle income countries) increased across editorial advisory boards, reviewers, and authors of commissioned content.