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

[Jennifer Staple]

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Global Health and Innovation Summit
A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009

http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference <http://www.uniteforsight.org/confe=
rence>     NEW: Conference Schedule Online <http://www.uniteforsight.org/co=
nference/schedule-2009>

Early Bird Rate - Register Now To Secure Lowest Rate: http://www.uniteforsi=
ght.org/conference


"A Meeting of Minds," --CNN

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.


What? Join 2,500 people from all 50 states and from more than 60 countries =
for an innovative, high-impact idea incubator.
Who should attend? Students, public health professionals, doctors, educator=
s, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others.=
  Anyone interested in international health and development, public health,=
 eye care, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, mic=
rofinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public serv=
ice, environmental health, and education.

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

Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

"Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems,"Leah Barre=
tt, MPA, Program Officer, VillageReach

"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


"The Power of Public/Private "Hybrids," Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Di=
rectors, 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

"'Patient' Capital for Global Health," Ajay Nair, MBBS MPH, Portfolio Assoc=
iate, Acumen Fund

Plus 200 Featured Speakers, including:

"Protecting Children in Disaster and War: Efforts to Professionalize the Fi=
eld," Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health=
, Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of=
 Public Health, Columbia University

"Climate Instability: Health Problems and Healthy Solutions," Paul Epstein,=
 MD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment,=
 Harvard Medical School

"Food Security and the Right to Health," Robert Lawrence, MD, Center for A =
Livable future Professor; Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Healt=
h Policy & International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Dep=
artment of Environmental Health Sciences; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of=
 Public Health

"A Vaccine To Prevent AIDS: When and How," John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice=
 President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)


"Taking Lifesaving Care Closer to Women and Their Families,"Harshad Sanghvi=
, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns H=
opkins University

Plus 200 More Speakers: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference <http://www=
.uniteforsight.org/conference>