Author Archives: Virginia Barbour

About Virginia Barbour

Ginny Barbour is Chief Editor of PLoS Medicine and Chair of COPE. She is interested in open access, the equitable dissemination of health information globally and not allowing the interests of global corporations to override public health. She is Consulting Editor to PLoS Currents: Disasters.

Open Access and HIFA2015 – where next?

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: April 24, 2012
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Announcing PLoS Currents: Disasters

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: March 27, 2012
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#eyesonsyria or how to get eyes on the unwatchable

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: March 15, 2012
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PLoS/HIFA2015 Webinar, 28th March 2012: Can Open Access publishing provide Healthcare Information For All by 2015?

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: March 7, 2012
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Rinderpest: the puzzling story of a plague that is no longer a news story

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: May 31, 2011
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HIFA2015 Conference: lack of access to healthcare information is lethal

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: May 12, 2011
Category: Conference news, General, Policy | Tagged , | 1 Comment

A City of Joy in the midst of hell

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: April 11, 2011
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Poverty, Infections and Inequality in the World’s Richest Country

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: March 31, 2011
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Open Access: going the last few miles

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: March 30, 2011
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Is funding into Neglected Diseases being misdirected?

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: February 17, 2011
Category: General, Neglected Diseases, Policy | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments