Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced its participation in the Festival of Science, one of Europe's biggest science festivals to be held at the University of Liverpool (UK) in September.
It proposes to organise a free forum at the event entitled 'How science addresses developing world issues'. The aim is to get research organisations, charities and the media together to discuss how research and open communication are needed to advance medical understanding in diseases such as malaria and AIDS, widely prevalent in developing countries.
BioMed Central's Publisher, Matt Cockerill, will chair the forum. Speakers include Hattie Begg, Advocacy and Research Officer of African Medical and Research Foundation; Dr. Colin Sutherland, Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Editorial Board Member of Malaria Journal, Barbara Kirsop from the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development; and David Dickson, Editor of SciDev.net.
Organised by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Festival of Science annually attracts around 400 top scientists and science communicators from the UK and abroad. The experts reveal the latest developments in research to a general audience, at a week long event held at a different location each September.
