[Ip-health] Global Health and Social Innovation Conference at Yale

[Jennifer Staple]

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Many of you may be interested in this international "Achieving Global Goals=
 Through Innovation" conference to be held at Yale University.  Please forw=
ard widely.

Register Online For 6th Annual Global Health Conference. Registration rate =
increases monthly.

"Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation"
Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

The Unite For Sight Conference is what CNN calls "A Meeting of Minds"

200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Nicholas=
 Kristof, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Al Sommer, and Dr. Harold=
 Varmus. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The =
Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers, and =
many others.

CME, CNE, and CPE Credits will be available for select conference sessions.

Unite For Sight's conference convenes a committed vanguard of 2,500 people =
from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges students, profession=
als, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, n=
onprofits, and others, to develop innovative solutions to achieve global go=
als.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

"Global Health Challenges and Opportunities," Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Fo=
rmer US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Geor=
getown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center; Senior Medic=
al Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research; Chair, Global Health P=
rogram, Meridian International Center

"The Challenges of Development and Making Aid Work," Nicholas Kristof, Colu=
mnist, The New York Times

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Que=
telet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and =
Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of th=
e United Nations Ban Ki-moon

"Millennium Villages: Update," Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordin=
ator, Millennium Village Project

"Preventing Blindness; Saving Lives," Al Sommer, MD, MHS, Professor and Dea=
n Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

"New Perspectives on Global Health and Science," Harold Varmus, MD, Preside=
nt and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Former Dire=
ctor of the NIH; Nobel Prize Recipient

Confirmed Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

"Unite For Sight: Social Entrepreneurship As A Symbol of Hope for the (Poor=
) Blind Villagers and Refugees in Ghana," James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist=
 and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

"Strategic Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Advancing Global Health," =
Greg Dees, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and co=
-founder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, Duke=
 University's Fuqua School of Business

"Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems," Julia Dev=
in, JD, MPH, Director of Programs, VillageReach

"Improving Public Health Delivery Through Social Entrepreneurship," Gene Fa=
lk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers

"The HealthStore Foundation: Improving Access to Life-Saving Medicines thro=
ugh Micro-Franchising," Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-=
Founder, HealthStore Foundation

"The Impact of the Food and Nutrition Crisis on the Global Health Agenda," =
Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children

"Health Care From The Grassroots," Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Directo=
r, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; A=
ssistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and=
 Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Plus 200 more renowned featured speakers: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conf=
erence