Hi all,
Some of our UVM undergrads have enjoyed attending this conference.
Check it out.
Anne
Dear Friend of Unite For Sight,
We very much hope to have an opportunity to see you at Unite For Sight's 9th
annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on April 21-22, 2012.
If you are interested in presenting an oral or poster presentation at the
conference, we are currently accepting abstracts until September 30.
We would also appreciate it if you could please forward this announcement to
others who may be interested in attending or presenting. The registration
rate increases after September 30.
Global Health & Innovation Conference 2012
Presented by Unite For Sight, 9th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 21 - Sunday, April 22, 2012
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
"A Meeting of Minds"--CNN
The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global
health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend,
thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers,
students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international
development, and social entrepreneurship. Register during September to
secure the lowest registration rate.<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference>
Interested in presenting at the conference? Submit an
abstract<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference>for consideration.
The conference's confirmed speakers to date include:Keynote Addresses
- *Sasha Dichter,* Director of Business Development, Acumen Fund
- *Seth Goldman,* President and TeaEO of Honest Tea
- *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, Director of Health, Millennium Village
Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University
Design Thinking Speakers
- *Robert Fabricant,* Vice President of Creative, Frog Design Inc.
- *Erica Kochi*, Co-lead, UNICEF Innovations Team
- *Michael Murphy*, Executive Director and Co-Founder, MASS Design Group
- *"Designing Effective Visuals For Global Communication," Natacha
Poggio,* Assistant Professor, Hartford Art School, University of
Hartford
- *Andrew Zolli,* Curator, Pop!Tech
Education Initiatives in Global Health Speakers
- *Elizabeth Bradley,* PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of
Health Policy & Administration; Director, Global Health Initiative, Yale
University
- *"Educating Undergraduates in Global Health: Opportunities and
Challenges," Kaveh Khoshnood,* PhD, Associate Professor, Yale School of
Public Health
- *Philip Landrigan,* MD, MSc, Dean for Global Health, Ethel H. Wise
Professor and Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine, Professor of
Pediatrics, Director, Children's Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai
School of Medicine
- *Cheryl Moyer,* MPH, Managing Director, Global REACH; Research
Investigator, Department of Medical Education, University of Michigan
Medical School
Environment, Energy, and Food Speakers
- *"An Inventory of Toxic Hotspots in the Developing World - Over 100
Million Exposed," Richard Fuller,* President, Blacksmith Institute
- *"Farmers First: Scaling a Permanent and Sustainable End To Hunger,"
Tony Kalm*, Director of Business Development, One Acre Fund
- *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
Film, Photography, Art & Global Health Speakers
- *"Thinking, Sensing, Feeling, Doing: How Art Can Energize Public
Health," Carolyn Cannuscio,* ScD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
and Community Health, Section on Public Health, University of Pennsylvania
- *"Potential Over Poverty: Creating a New Narrative for Development,"
Jonathan Kalan,* Photographer, Journalist, Founder, The (BoP) Project
- *Dawn Shapiro,* Filmmaker, The Edge of Joy
- *Landon Van Soest,* Producer, Good Fortune; Filmmaker Transient
Pictures
Healthcare Delivery Models
- *Shobha Arole,* Director, The Comprehensive Rural Health Project,
Jamkhed
- *"Lessons from the Cuban Health System Applied in Three Under-Served
Communites in the United States," Peter Bourne,* MA, MD, Visiting Fellow,
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)
- *Molly Christiansen,* Manager, Health Practices and Business
Development, Living Goods
- *"Building Sustainable Rural Healthcare Systems: The Healthpoint
Model," Al Hammond,* co-founder and Chairman of Healthpoint Services and
Director of Health for All, Ashoka
- *"Re-Thinking Development: Social Innovations That Deliver Effective,
Efficient and Sustainable Large-Scale Change," Lakshmi Karan,* Director,
Global Strategy, Riders for Health
- *"Frontline Health Workers as the Key to Achieving the Health MDGs,"
Charles MacCormack,* President and CEO, Save The Children
- *Tricia Morente,* Head of Strategy and Marketing, LifeSpring Hospitals
Health Policy
- *"Global Health Takes a Normative Turn: The Rise of Human Rights to
Address the Health Threats of the 21st Century," Benjamin Mason
Meier,*JD, LLM, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy,
Department of
Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Infectious Disease Speakers
- *Gene Bukhman,* MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and
Women's Hospital
- *Adetokunbo O. Lucas,* Adjunct Professor of International Health,
Harvard University
- *"Bureaucratic Luddities and Other Opportunities for Innovation in TB
Control," Peter Small,* MD, Deputy Director, TB, Global Health Program,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- *"Cost-Effectiveness of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in
Reducing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Infection in Kenya," Georgia
Sambunaris,* Senior Advisor, USAID Office of Economic Growth
Maternal and Child Health Speakers
- *Jane Aronson,* MD, CEO and Founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation;
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College
and Columbia University
- *"Preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: New Strategies for
Changing the Behaviors of Medical Professionals and Pregnant
Women," Paul N.
Bloom,* Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and
Marketing, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
- *"Reproductive Refugees: Health Disparities and Diasporic Dreams in
Post/911 Arab America," Marcia Inhorn,* MPH, PhD, William K. Lanman Jr.
Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs; Editor, Journal of
Middle East Women's Studies, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale
University
- *"Adoption of Innovation and the Rate of Decline in Child Mortality,"
Dean Jamison,* Professor, Global Health and Adjunct Professor, Health
Services, University of Washington School of Public Health
- *"The Role of Scientists and Medical Professionals in Helping Pregnant
Women Abstain from Drinking Alcohol," Rochelle D. Schwartz-Bloom,* Ph.D.,
Professor of Pharmacology, Duke University Medical Center
- *"Family Planning: Remarkable Progress but a Steep Road Ahead," Joe
Speidel,* MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and
Reproductive Sciences; Director for Communication, Development and External
Relations, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of
California, San Francisco
- *"WE CARE Solar: Bringing Light to Maternal Health Care," Laura
Stachel,* MD, MPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Co-Founder, WE
CARE Solar
Non-Communicable Diseases Speakers
- *"Diabetes and the Global Burden of Diabetic Retinopathy," Nader
Moinfar,* Magruder Eye Institute and University of Central Florida School
of Medicine, Orlando, Florida
Organization Management Speakers
- *Nava Ashraf,* Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
Business School
- *"Following Your Dream With An NGO: Why Magic Can Happen," Kate
Coleman,* Chairman and Founder, Right To Sight
- *"Three Cups of Lessons: A Teachable Moment for Nonprofits," Maurice
Segall,* JD, Pro Bono Partnership, Inc.
Research in Global Health Speakers
- *Jenny Aker,* Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
- *Alan Bernstein,* PhD, Former Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine
Enterprise
- *"Meet the Editor: How to Write for Global Health Journals," Jocalyn
Clark,* Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
- *"Advances in Global Eye Health Research," Deborah Carper,* Deputy
Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
- *"Primary Congenital Glaucoma," Sarwat Salim,* Associate Professor of
Ophthalmology and Director of Glaucoma Service, University of Tennessee,
Memphis, Tennessee
- *"Lifestyle and Risk for Glaucoma," 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
Philanthropy Speakers
- *Diana Ayton-Shenker,* Founder and CEO, Fast Forward Fund
- *Lucy Bernholz,* Arabella Advisors
- *"Marketing Strategies To Set Your Not-for-Profit Apart," Aria
Finger,*COO, Do Something
- *"From Donor-Driven to Impact-Driven: How Evidence Can Inform Smarter
Global Health Philanthropy," Carol McLaughlin,* MD, MPH, MSc, Research
Director - Global Public Health, Center for High Impact
Philanthropy, School
of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania
- *Aaron Hurst,* President and Founder, Taproot Foundation
Social Enterprise Speakers
- *Erica Bliss Pattni,* Vice President of Marketing, KIND Healthy Snacks
- *Kyle Berner,* Creator, Feelgoodz LLC
- *"Making it Real: Lessons From Thirty Years of Grassroots Development,"
Dean Cycon,* Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
- *"More Food With Less Water and Improved Health: Yes, It Is Possible,"
Ken Lee,* Co-founder and Co-owner, Lotus Foods
- *"Diamonds for Development," Shane Rogers,* Co-Founder, The Clarity
Project
- *Mathieu Senard,* Co-Founder and CEO, Alter Eco
- *Zak Zaidman,* Co-Founder and CEO, Kopali Organics
Social Entrepreneurship Speakers
- *"Sustainable Social Change: The Power of Enterprise Solutions," Ron
Bills,* Chairman & CEO, Envirofit International
- *"Lives in Development: Values, Capabilities and Aspirations for the
New Economic Development Professional," Michael Fairbanks*, Fellow,
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
- *Lara Galinsky,* Senior Vice President, Echoing Green
- *Paul Light,* Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, Robert
Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
- *Eric Nee,* Managing Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review
- *Jill Tucker,* Senior Program Officer, Lemelson Foundation
- *"Hackovation: Trends, Technologies, and Techniques for 21st Century
Social Impact," Tim Zak,* Associate Teaching Professor; Director,
Institute for Social Innovation, H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon
University
Social Media & Marketing Speakers
- *"Storytelling for Change," Neal Baer,* MD, Institute for Photographic
Empowerment at USC's Annenberg School of Communications; Executive
Producer,
A Gifted Man
- *"Healthy Habits for Life: Using Sesame Street to Promote a Healthier
World," Charlotte Cole,* Senior Vice President, Global Education, Sesame
Workshop
- *"Solving Meta-Community Issues by Playing Nicely with Others," and
"Breaking Thru The Clutter Workshop: How To Market Your Cause and Attract
New Champions," Scott Henderson,* Principal at CauseShift and Campaign
Manager of WeCanEndThis.com
- *"Overcoming Barriers By Using Humor and Animation to Create a Cultural
Shift," Firdaus Kharas,* Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Global Shift
- *Tom Watson,* President, CauseWired
Surgery & Global Health Speakers
- *"Africa's Huge Cataract Backlog: A Novel Strategy For Dealing With
It," Thomas Baah,* MD, Ophthalmologist and Director, Save The Nation's
Sight Clinic, Ghana
- *"AAO Global Alliances," Michael Brennan,* MD, American Academy of
Ophthalmology Past President, Alamance Eye Center
- *James Clarke,* MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye
Clinic, Ghana
- *"Economic Modeling of Surgical Disease in the Developing World," Scott
Corlew,* MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Resurge International
- *"Expanding Surgical Care for the Bottom Billion," Selwyn
Rogers,*Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
- *Seth Wanye,* MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching
Hospital, Ghana
Technology in Global Health Speakers
- *"Unleashing the Wealth of Nations: Bridging the Information Asymmetry
for Better Health and Economic Development," Julius
Akinyemi,*Entrepreneur-in-Residence, MIT Media Lab
- *"Use of Point-of-Care Technologies to Empower Communities, Sustain
Mobile Services, and Improve Health Delivery: Lessons from East
Africa," and
"Workshop: Strategies, Tools, and Practical Tips to Ensure High Impact and
Successful Outcomes for Field-Based Research and Internships,"* Jeffrey
Blander, President, Bienmoyo Foundation
- *"Strengthening Health Systems in Resource-Poor Settings Through the
Application of the Sana Wireless Technology," Leo Celi,* MD, MPH, MS,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and
Technology Division
- *"Nanotechnology in Cancer Drug Development: A Global Approach,"
Elisabet de los Pinos,* Founder and CEO, Aura Biosciences
- *Rich Fletcher,* PhD, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
- *Hamish Fraser,* MBChB, MRCP, MSc, Director of Informatics and
Telemedicine, Partners in Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine
at Harvard
Medical School; Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- *Alison Martin,* Service Delivery Manager, Sproxil, Inc.
- *Jose Gomez-Marquez,* Co-Founder and Co-Inventor, Aerovax; Co-Founder,
X out TB; Lecturer, D-LAB, MIT
- *"Wireless Biosensors to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality After
Initiation of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy," Jessica Haberer,* MD, MS,
Research Scientist, Harvard Institute for Global Health; Assistant
in Health
Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard
Medical School
- *"mHealth: Scaling Up, Low Cost Mobile Solutions in (PMTCT)
Preventing-Mother-to-Child-Transmission-Programs," Bobby
Jefferson,*Health IT Project Manager, Futures Group
- *"Disrupting Pathways to Mortality with Technology: Opportunities for
Resource-Limited Settings," Alain Labrique,* Assistant Professor,
Director, Johns Hopkins Bangladesh; Department of International Health and
Department of Epidemiology Program in Global Disease Epidemiology and
Control, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- *"From Big Data to Small Languages: Communication and Information
Processing in a Newly Connected World," Robert Munro,* Lead Engineer,
Computational Linguistics at Global Viral Forecasting Initiative; Chief
Information Officer, Energy For Opportunity; Graduate Fellow, Stanford
University
- *"BioPhotonics Technologies for Global Health," Aydogan Ozcan,* PhD,
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, California
NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
- *"Low-Cost Diagnostics for the Developing World," Una Ryan,* OBE, PhD,
DSc, CEO, Diagnostics For All
Water & Sanitation Speakers
- *Ned Breslin,* Chief Executive Officer, Water For People
- *David Kuria,* Chief Executive, Ecotact
"Advice From The Experts" Panels
- "Careers in Global Health: Advice From The Experts"
- "Careers in Social Entrepreneurship: Advice From The Experts"
- "Lessons From The Field: Setting Up Programs in Remote Areas"
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Dear Friend of Unite For Sight,
We very much hope to have an opportunity to see you at Unite For Sight's 9th
annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on April 21-22, 2012.
If you are interested in presenting an oral or poster presentation at the
conference, we are currently accepting abstracts until September 30.
We would also appreciate it if you could please forward this announcement to
others who may be interested in attending or presenting. The registration
rate increases after September 30.
Global Health & Innovation Conference 2012
Presented by Unite For Sight, 9th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 21 - Sunday, April 22, 2012
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
"A Meeting of Minds"--CNN
The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global
health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend,
thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers,
students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international
development, and social entrepreneurship. Register during September to
secure the lowest registration rate.<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference>
Interested in presenting at the conference? Submit an
abstract<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference>for consideration.
The conference's confirmed speakers to date include:Keynote Addresses
- *Sasha Dichter,* Director of Business Development, Acumen Fund
- *Seth Goldman,* President and TeaEO of Honest Tea
- *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, Director of Health, Millennium Village
Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University
Design Thinking Speakers
- *Robert Fabricant,* Vice President of Creative, Frog Design Inc.
- *Erica Kochi*, Co-lead, UNICEF Innovations Team
- *Michael Murphy*, Executive Director and Co-Founder, MASS Design Group
- *"Designing Effective Visuals For Global Communication," Natacha
Poggio,* Assistant Professor, Hartford Art School, University of
Hartford
- *Andrew Zolli,* Curator, Pop!Tech
Education Initiatives in Global Health Speakers
- *Elizabeth Bradley,* PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of
Health Policy & Administration; Director, Global Health Initiative, Yale
University
- *"Educating Undergraduates in Global Health: Opportunities and
Challenges," Kaveh Khoshnood,* PhD, Associate Professor, Yale School of
Public Health
- *Philip Landrigan,* MD, MSc, Dean for Global Health, Ethel H. Wise
Professor and Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine, Professor of
Pediatrics, Director, Children's Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai
School of Medicine
- *Cheryl Moyer,* MPH, Managing Director, Global REACH; Research
Investigator, Department of Medical Education, University of Michigan
Medical School
Environment, Energy, and Food Speakers
- *"An Inventory of Toxic Hotspots in the Developing World - Over 100
Million Exposed," Richard Fuller,* President, Blacksmith Institute
- *"Farmers First: Scaling a Permanent and Sustainable End To Hunger,"
Tony Kalm*, Director of Business Development, One Acre Fund
- *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
Film, Photography, Art & Global Health Speakers
- *"Thinking, Sensing, Feeling, Doing: How Art Can Energize Public
Health," Carolyn Cannuscio,* ScD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
and Community Health, Section on Public Health, University of Pennsylvania
- *"Potential Over Poverty: Creating a New Narrative for Development,"
Jonathan Kalan,* Photographer, Journalist, Founder, The (BoP) Project
- *Dawn Shapiro,* Filmmaker, The Edge of Joy
- *Landon Van Soest,* Producer, Good Fortune; Filmmaker Transient
Pictures
Healthcare Delivery Models
- *Shobha Arole,* Director, The Comprehensive Rural Health Project,
Jamkhed
- *"Lessons from the Cuban Health System Applied in Three Under-Served
Communites in the United States," Peter Bourne,* MA, MD, Visiting Fellow,
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)
- *Molly Christiansen,* Manager, Health Practices and Business
Development, Living Goods
- *"Building Sustainable Rural Healthcare Systems: The Healthpoint
Model," Al Hammond,* co-founder and Chairman of Healthpoint Services and
Director of Health for All, Ashoka
- *"Re-Thinking Development: Social Innovations That Deliver Effective,
Efficient and Sustainable Large-Scale Change," Lakshmi Karan,* Director,
Global Strategy, Riders for Health
- *"Frontline Health Workers as the Key to Achieving the Health MDGs,"
Charles MacCormack,* President and CEO, Save The Children
- *Tricia Morente,* Head of Strategy and Marketing, LifeSpring Hospitals
Health Policy
- *"Global Health Takes a Normative Turn: The Rise of Human Rights to
Address the Health Threats of the 21st Century," Benjamin Mason
Meier,*JD, LLM, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy,
Department of
Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Infectious Disease Speakers
- *Gene Bukhman,* MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and
Women's Hospital
- *Adetokunbo O. Lucas,* Adjunct Professor of International Health,
Harvard University
- *"Bureaucratic Luddities and Other Opportunities for Innovation in TB
Control," Peter Small,* MD, Deputy Director, TB, Global Health Program,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- *"Cost-Effectiveness of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in
Reducing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Infection in Kenya," Georgia
Sambunaris,* Senior Advisor, USAID Office of Economic Growth
Maternal and Child Health Speakers
- *Jane Aronson,* MD, CEO and Founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation;
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College
and Columbia University
- *"Preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: New Strategies for
Changing the Behaviors of Medical Professionals and Pregnant Women," Paul N.
Bloom,* Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and
Marketing, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
- *"Reproductive Refugees: Health Disparities and Diasporic Dreams in
Post/911 Arab America," Marcia Inhorn,* MPH, PhD, William K. Lanman Jr.
Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs; Editor, Journal of
Middle East Women's Studies, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University
- *"Adoption of Innovation and the Rate of Decline in Child Mortality,"
Dean Jamison,* Professor, Global Health and Adjunct Professor, Health
Services, University of Washington School of Public Health
- *"The Role of Scientists and Medical Professionals in Helping Pregnant
Women Abstain from Drinking Alcohol," Rochelle D. Schwartz-Bloom,* Ph.D.,
Professor of Pharmacology, Duke University Medical Center
- *"Family Planning: Remarkable Progress but a Steep Road Ahead," Joe
Speidel,* MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and
Reproductive Sciences; Director for Communication, Development and External
Relations, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of
California, San Francisco
- *"WE CARE Solar: Bringing Light to Maternal Health Care," Laura
Stachel,* MD, MPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Co-Founder, WE
CARE Solar
Non-Communicable Diseases Speakers
- *"Diabetes and the Global Burden of Diabetic Retinopathy," Nader
Moinfar,* Magruder Eye Institute and University of Central Florida School
of Medicine, Orlando, Florida
Organization Management Speakers
- *Nava Ashraf,* Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
Business School
- *"Following Your Dream With An NGO: Why Magic Can Happen," Kate
Coleman,* Chairman and Founder, Right To Sight
- *"Three Cups of Lessons: A Teachable Moment for Nonprofits," Maurice
Segall,* JD, Pro Bono Partnership, Inc.
Research in Global Health Speakers
- *Jenny Aker,* Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
- *Alan Bernstein,* PhD, Former Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine
Enterprise
- *"Meet the Editor: How to Write for Global Health Journals," Jocalyn
Clark,* Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
- *"Advances in Global Eye Health Research," Deborah Carper,* Deputy
Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
- *"Primary Congenital Glaucoma," Sarwat Salim,* Associate Professor of
Ophthalmology and Director of Glaucoma Service, University of Tennessee,
Memphis, Tennessee
- *"Lifestyle and Risk for Glaucoma," 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
Philanthropy Speakers
- *Diana Ayton-Shenker,* Founder and CEO, Fast Forward Fund
- *Lucy Bernholz,* Arabella Advisors
- *"Marketing Strategies To Set Your Not-for-Profit Apart," Aria
Finger,*COO, Do Something
- *"From Donor-Driven to Impact-Driven: How Evidence Can Inform Smarter
Global Health Philanthropy," Carol McLaughlin,* MD, MPH, MSc, Research
Director - Global Public Health, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School
of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania
- *Aaron Hurst,* President and Founder, Taproot Foundation
Social Enterprise Speakers
- *Erica Bliss Pattni,* Vice President of Marketing, KIND Healthy Snacks
- *Kyle Berner,* Creator, Feelgoodz LLC
- *"Making it Real: Lessons From Thirty Years of Grassroots Development,"
Dean Cycon,* Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
- *"More Food With Less Water and Improved Health: Yes, It Is Possible,"
Ken Lee,* Co-founder and Co-owner, Lotus Foods
- *"Diamonds for Development," Shane Rogers,* Co-Founder, The Clarity
Project
- *Mathieu Senard,* Co-Founder and CEO, Alter Eco
- *Zak Zaidman,* Co-Founder and CEO, Kopali Organics
Social Entrepreneurship Speakers
- *"Sustainable Social Change: The Power of Enterprise Solutions," Ron
Bills,* Chairman & CEO, Envirofit International
- *"Lives in Development: Values, Capabilities and Aspirations for the
New Economic Development Professional," Michael Fairbanks*, Fellow,
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
- *Lara Galinsky,* Senior Vice President, Echoing Green
- *Paul Light,* Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, Robert
Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
- *Eric Nee,* Managing Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review
- *Jill Tucker,* Senior Program Officer, Lemelson Foundation
- *"Hackovation: Trends, Technologies, and Techniques for 21st Century
Social Impact," Tim Zak,* Associate Teaching Professor; Director,
Institute for Social Innovation, H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon
University
Social Media & Marketing Speakers
- *"Storytelling for Change," Neal Baer,* MD, Institute for Photographic
Empowerment at USC's Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer,
A Gifted Man
- *"Healthy Habits for Life: Using Sesame Street to Promote a Healthier
World," Charlotte Cole,* Senior Vice President, Global Education, Sesame
Workshop
- *"Solving Meta-Community Issues by Playing Nicely with Others," and
"Breaking Thru The Clutter Workshop: How To Market Your Cause and Attract
New Champions," Scott Henderson,* Principal at CauseShift and Campaign
Manager of WeCanEndThis.com
- *"Overcoming Barriers By Using Humor and Animation to Create a Cultural
Shift," Firdaus Kharas,* Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Global Shift
- *Tom Watson,* President, CauseWired
Surgery & Global Health Speakers
- *"Africa's Huge Cataract Backlog: A Novel Strategy For Dealing With
It," Thomas Baah,* MD, Ophthalmologist and Director, Save The Nation's
Sight Clinic, Ghana
- *"AAO Global Alliances," Michael Brennan,* MD, American Academy of
Ophthalmology Past President, Alamance Eye Center
- *James Clarke,* MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye
Clinic, Ghana
- *"Economic Modeling of Surgical Disease in the Developing World," Scott
Corlew,* MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Resurge International
- *"Expanding Surgical Care for the Bottom Billion," Selwyn
Rogers,*Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
- *Seth Wanye,* MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching
Hospital, Ghana
Technology in Global Health Speakers
- *"Unleashing the Wealth of Nations: Bridging the Information Asymmetry
for Better Health and Economic Development," Julius
Akinyemi,*Entrepreneur-in-Residence, MIT Media Lab
- *"Use of Point-of-Care Technologies to Empower Communities, Sustain
Mobile Services, and Improve Health Delivery: Lessons from East Africa," and
"Workshop: Strategies, Tools, and Practical Tips to Ensure High Impact and
Successful Outcomes for Field-Based Research and Internships,"* Jeffrey
Blander, President, Bienmoyo Foundation
- *"Strengthening Health Systems in Resource-Poor Settings Through the
Application of the Sana Wireless Technology," Leo Celi,* MD, MPH, MS,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and
Technology Division
- *"Nanotechnology in Cancer Drug Development: A Global Approach,"
Elisabet de los Pinos,* Founder and CEO, Aura Biosciences
- *Rich Fletcher,* PhD, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
- *Hamish Fraser,* MBChB, MRCP, MSc, Director of Informatics and
Telemedicine, Partners in Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard
Medical School; Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- *Alison Martin,* Service Delivery Manager, Sproxil, Inc.
- *Jose Gomez-Marquez,* Co-Founder and Co-Inventor, Aerovax; Co-Founder,
X out TB; Lecturer, D-LAB, MIT
- *"Wireless Biosensors to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality After
Initiation of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy," Jessica Haberer,* MD, MS,
Research Scientist, Harvard Institute for Global Health; Assistant in Health
Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard
Medical School
- *"mHealth: Scaling Up, Low Cost Mobile Solutions in (PMTCT)
Preventing-Mother-to-Child-Transmission-Programs," Bobby
Jefferson,*Health IT Project Manager, Futures Group
- *"Disrupting Pathways to Mortality with Technology: Opportunities for
Resource-Limited Settings," Alain Labrique,* Assistant Professor,
Director, Johns Hopkins Bangladesh; Department of International Health and
Department of Epidemiology Program in Global Disease Epidemiology and
Control, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- *"From Big Data to Small Languages: Communication and Information
Processing in a Newly Connected World," Robert Munro,* Lead Engineer,
Computational Linguistics at Global Viral Forecasting Initiative; Chief
Information Officer, Energy For Opportunity; Graduate Fellow, Stanford
University
- *"BioPhotonics Technologies for Global Health," Aydogan Ozcan,* PhD,
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, California
NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
- *"Low-Cost Diagnostics for the Developing World," Una Ryan,* OBE, PhD,
DSc, CEO, Diagnostics For All
Water & Sanitation Speakers
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- *David Kuria,* Chief Executive, Ecotact
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