Faith McLellan

Experience

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  Wake Forest University

  Jul 1988 - Apr 1992

  Faculty Associate, Anesthesia

  Medical Editor

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  The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

  Apr 1992 - Apr 1999

  Director, Manuscript and Grant Preparation Service, Department of Anesthesiology

  Established first departmental editorial service for clinician researchers and scientists. • Edited scientific papers, meeting abstracts, and other academic and professional presentations. Managed interim and final reports for funded projects.• Developed and gave workshops in scientific publication and research, research ethics, grant writing and presentation skills.

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  American College of Physicians

  Jan 1999 - Apr 2000

  Managing Editor, Physicians Information and Education Resource (PIER) Project

  Developed point-of-care evidence-based electronic resource for internists.• Managed commissioning, authoring, and reviewing process for product. Performed extensive editing of modules, including reconfiguration for integration with electronic medical records.

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  Praxis Press

  Jul 2000 - May 2001

  Editorial Director

  Editorial director of medical website for point-of-care decision-making tools for primary-care doctors (sold to Thomson Micromedex). • Set up editorial board of academic experts, developed tables of contents and commissioned authors and reviewers. Supervised staff of writers and editors. Collaborated with experts in evidence-based medicine and electronic medical records to ensure best approaches to the creation of integrated knowledge resources. • Managed four key products, including Best Practice of Medicine, Best Health Guide (a resource for consumers), Praxis Post (an award-winning New Yorker–style webzine for doctors) and a drug database. Show less

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  The Lancet

  May 2001 - Dec 2008

  North American Senior Editor

  Performed a wide range of writing and editing tasks, including news reporting and writing editorials, commentary, and features; commissioning review articles, coordinating peer review; and collaborating in publication decisions. Served as liaison to North American authors and reviewers; developed strategic plans for US readership. Represented the journal through teaching and lecturing on scientific publication, research and publication ethics, and scientific integrity. • Conceptualized and commissioned series of papers in collaboration with the journal and academic institutions and research groups. Coordinated development of themes, peer review, revision and production of papers, in conjunction with eternal editors. Participated in launch events, including high-level political and policy forms, global health meetings, and press conferences.• Developed, edited, and coordinated publication of special theme issues. • Selected to travel with former US President Jimmy Carter to assess Carter Center global health programs and public health training initiatives in Ethiopia and Nigeria.• Liaison to the Fogarty International/National Library of Medicine–sponsored African Journals Partnership. Training partner for Ghana Medical Journal. Show less

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  World Health Organization

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2012

  Writing and editing documents related to the current reform of the World Health Organization. Writing and editing technical guidance and social and historical documentation related to the H1N1 2009 influenza pandemic. Led writing team for International Health Regulations Review Committee report.

  • Information Manager, WHO Programme of Reform

    Jun 2011 - Jan 2012

  • Scientist, H1N1 Pandemic Task Force and IHR Review Committee

    Oct 2009 - May 2011

  • Senior Staff, Secretariat, Guidelines Review Committee

    Jan 2009 - Oct 2009
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  World Health Organization

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2020

  Write speeches, technical reports, guidance documents, briefing papers and concept notes. Develop presentations. Writer for the WHO Independent High-level Commission on Non-communicable Diseases. Organized meetings, wrote background materials and briefing papers. Collaborated on strategy for delivery of report to be used at WHO and the United Nations. Drafted and revised report. Final report issued 1 June 2018. Write and edit technical documents, including clinical and public health guidance, policy statements, meeting reports, speeches, and presentations. Wrote speeches, technical documents, meeting reports. Researched issues and assisted in developing policy positions.

  • Writer/Editor, Office of the Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases

    Jun 2018 - Jan 2020

  • Writer, WHO Independent High-level Commission on Non-communicable Diseases

    Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

  • Information Manager, Health Security and Environment

    Jan 2012 - Mar 2018

  • Writer, Office of the Director-General

    Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
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  World Health Organization

  Feb 2022 - now

  In the offices of the Director-General, Deputy Director-General, and the Chief Scientist. Narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic, presentations, speeches, policy position papers.

  • Scientific Writer/Editor

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Senior Communications Officer

    Feb 2022 - now