Background
As The Lancet is the leading medical journal in global health, The LancetStudent.com aims to encourage students everywhere to engage in global health.

From our conversations with students from around the world, we know that students themselves, ie, you, want to know more about, and be more involved with, global health issues and so TheLancetStudent.com is here to inform, raise awareness, and most importantly, encourage you to get involved in global health.

Our aim
We aim to help you get more involved in global health in a number of ways, for example, by including thought-provoking and informative messages in our daily blog, providing teaching materials in global health, summarising relevant content from the weekly issue of The Lancet especially for you, and organising votes and polls. BUT we can’t do it without your involvement.

What YOU can do
You can:
Write for our Articles section
Submit your elective reports
Read our weekly summary of The Lancet (The Lancet Digest)
Post comments on our blog (and to all published Articles)
Vote in our polls
Download our podcasts
Use our global health resources and follow our external links
AND, most importantly, send us your suggestions and submissions, tell us what you think, and share your ideas by emailing student@lancet.com. This is YOUR site and we are relying on your input.

So who are we?
TheLancetStudent.com is mainly organised and run by two editors at The Lancet: Rhona MacDonald who is a Senior Editor and Richard Lane, who is the Web Editor.

Rhona MacDonald
Rhona graduated in Medicine (Aberdeen, UK) in 1992 and joined The Lancet in 2006. She has worked with many different charities, and non-governmental organisations, including Medécins Sans Frontières and Oxfam, and has worked as a doctor specialising in public health and primary care in several low and middle income countries. She also used to be an editor at the BMJ, and was senior editor of the studentBMJ for several years. Rhona is involved in the day-to-day running of the website, including writing the blog and replying to your emails.

Richard Lane
Richard joined The Lancet in 1999 as Press Officer, becoming Web Editor in 2004. He has a psychology degree from the University of Leeds, UK, and before joining The Lancet worked in a variety of media-related roles at the Independent Newspaper, the Royal National Institute for the Blind, and the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. He introduced podcasting to The Lancet in 2006, and oversees all editorial activity for TheLancet.com and TheLancetStudent.com