Equity, diversity and inclusion in publishing: initiatives from The Lancet Group

EASE EDI Committee Webinar - Equity, diversity and inclusion in publishing: initiatives from The Lancet Group
Speakers: Diana Samuel, Zoë Mullan, Ana Heredia
Date: 10 September 2024
The Lancet journals began taking equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) more seriously in 2019, with the publication of a special issue on women in science, medicine, and global health. Since then it has followed up with content and initiatives aimed at contributing to a range of dimensions of EDI, as well as taking on an EDI Lead and developing a formal strategy. Recognising that different journals have varied capacity to contribute to EDI efforts, the speakers talked about the importance of EDI from a scientific and social perspective, discussed some suggested pillars for an EDI strategy, and shared a range of examples of EDI initiatives - large-scale and small-scale - from across The Lancet family of journals.
Index:
00:14 Welcome and introductions by EASE EDI Committee Chair, Ana Heredia
02:53 Diana Samuel
03:30 Why EDI matters
08:58 A short history of The Lancet
11:58 Zoë Mullan
12:19 The Lancet’s EDI strategy
14:34 Internal culture
16:01 Contributors
20:42 Thought Leadership
27:50 The Lancet’s dedicated EDI webpage
31:06 Work in progress - next steps
33:20 Q&A, hosted by EASE Secretary, Mary Hodgson and webinar host, Ana Heredia
53:14 Closing remarks from Ana Heredia
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About the speakers:
Zoë Mullan
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Global Health, and Inclusion & Diversity Lead, The Lancet Group, United Kingdom
Zoë Mullan is Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal, The Lancet Global Health. Between 2013 and 2017 she was a Council Member and Trustee of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). She trained in Biochemistry at the University of Bath, UK, before joining the publishing industry in 1997 as a Scientific Information Officer with CABI. She moved to The Lancet in 1999, where she has worked since, variously as a manuscript editor, section editor, and founding editor of The Lancet Global Health.
Diana Samuel
Acting Deputy Editor, The Lancet Digital Health, United Kingdom
Diana Samuel is the Acting Deputy Editor for The Lancet Digital Health, which publishes important, innovative, and practice-changing research on any topic connected with digital technology in clinical medicine, public health, and global health. She is a member of The Lancet Group for Racial Equity (or GRacE for short) - an internal taskforce which you’ll hear more about during the presentation - and is also a member of EASE’s EDI Committee.
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Index:
00:14 Welcome and introductions by EASE EDI Committee Chair, Ana Heredia
02:53 Diana Samuel
03:30 Why EDI matters
08:58 A short history of The Lancet
11:58 Zoë Mullan
12:19 The Lancet’s EDI strategy
14:34 Internal culture
16:01 Contributors
20:42 Thought Leadership
27:50 The Lancet’s dedicated EDI webpage
31:06 Work in progress - next steps
33:20 Q&A, hosted by EASE Secretary, Mary Hodgson and webinar host, Ana Heredia
53:14 Closing remarks from Ana Heredia