From open access to open science: Opportunities for health equity

Description

Panelists Bob Bollinger, Christa Hasenkopf, Phillip Phan, and Carol Mimura will engage faculty and staff as well as students by making the connection between sharing knowledge through open access and open science with improving health equity. This panel relates to the recent adoption of Johns Hopkins' Open Access Policy.

Panel highlights include:

• policy and economic challenges in bringing technologies, particularly low-cost ones, to market in low- and middle-income countries
• how open science might contribute importantly to innovation that advances health equity, both here and abroad
• how open data and perhaps citizen science might work, both strengths and limitations of such an approach
• technologies that support an open science framework that still enables sustainable scale-up and affordable access to those populations in need

This panel is sponsored by Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Healthier World and the Welch Medical Library as part of a series of events for Open Access Week, which promotes the benefits of placing research in open access repositories and the resources available to Johns Hopkins faculty.