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Global Health & Innovation Summit
The World's Leading Idea Incubator For Global Health Innovation
A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
Registration Now Open (Early Bird Registration Rate):http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
Call For Abstracts: Submit an abstract online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference The first deadline for abstract submission is August 15, and the final abstract deadline is September 20.
"A Meeting of Minds," --CNN
200 Speakers in April 2010 <http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/speakers>, Including Keynote Addresses by Seth Godin, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, and many others.
The Global Health & Innovation Summit convenes more than 2,200 participants from 55 countries. The Summit challenges students, public health professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative, effective solutions to achieve global goals.
Keynote Speakers
"Using The Power of Stories and Tribes to Spread Your Messages and Change The World," Seth Godin, MBA, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com
Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project
Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers
Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers
Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation
Kevin Jones, Co-Founder, Good Capital
Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something
Nicholas Lumpp, Cofounder, Somaly Mam Foundation
Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ajay Nair, MBBS, MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund
Billy Shore, JD, Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength
Kevin Starr, MD, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation
Gary White, Executive Director, WaterPartners
Andrew Wolk, CEO, Root Cause
Plus 200 Featured Speakers, including:
Ron Adelman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Yale University Eye Center
Jesus Aguais, Executive Director, Aid for AIDS
Astier Almedom, DPhil, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health
Agbessi Amouzou, PhD, Assistant Scientist, Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide
Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Bob Bollinger, MD, MPH, Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health; Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkins University
Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
Kathleen Casey, MD, FACS, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons
James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
Luz Claudio, MD, Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Chief of the Division of International Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Paul Cleary, PhD, Dean of Public Health, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health; Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health
Gustavo V. de Moraes, MD, Research Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health and Economic Development, Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Project
Zoravar Dhaliwal, CEO, Community Lab
Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnerships
Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine of The National Academies
Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
Kevin Frick, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International
Ilene Gipson, PhD, Senior Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation
Laura Herman, Managing Director, Social Impact Advisors
Christopher P. Howson, PhD, Vice President for Global Programs, The March of Dimes Foundation
Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidmiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
Norman Kleiman, PhD, Director, Eye Radiation and Environmental Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders
Robert Lawrence, MD, The Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
Pamela Lynam, MD, Country Director Kenya, JHPIEGO - Johns Hopkins University
John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
Carole Mitnick, Sc.D., Instructor, Department of Global Health and Social medicine, Harvard Medical School
Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, MPhil, CHES, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Global Health Program Director, New York Medical College School of Public Health
Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-USA
Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health
Rebecca Onie, JD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTH
Santa Ono, PhD, Sr. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic Affairs, Emory University
David Oot, Associate Vice President for Health, Save The Children
Sung Chul Park, MD, Glaucoma Fellow, New York Medical College, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
Steven Phillips, MD, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation
Maryse B. Pierre-Louis, MD, MPH, MH/HSA, Lead HNP Specialist, Human Development; Coordinator, Booster Program For Malaria Control in Africa, World Bank Africa Region
Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, Rice University
Majid Sadigh, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis
Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US Agency for International Development
David Spiegel, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
John E. Tedstrom, PhD, President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)
James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
Sheila West, PhD, El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Derek Yach, Vice President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo
Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiative
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