[p2p-research] Fwd: [oshca_members] Global Health and Innovation Conference at Yale

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Jennifer Staple <Jennifer.Staple at aya.yale.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Subject: Global Health and Innovation Conference at Yale
To: fouadbajwa


Please forward widely.  Registration rate increases after February 28.

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/conference>
NEW: Conference Schedule Online
<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/schedule-2009>

Early Bird Rate - Register Now To Secure Lowest Rate:
http://www.uniteforsight.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,
educators, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations,
nonprofits, and others.  Anyone interested in international health and
development, public health, eye care, medicine, social
entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, human
rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public service,
environmental health, and education.

Keynote Speakers

"Global Health Challenges and Opportunities," Susan Blumenthal, MD,
MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University
Medical Center; Senior Medical Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS
Research; Chair, Global Health Program, Meridian International Center

"The Challenges of Development and Making Aid Work," Nicholas Kristof,
Columnist, The New York Times

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

"Millennium Villages: Update," Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health
Coordinator, Millennium Village Project

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

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

Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

"Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems,"Leah
Barrett, 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 Directors, mothers2mothers

"The HealthStore Foundation: Improving Access to Life-Saving Medicines
through 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
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

"'Patient' Capital for Global Health," Ajay Nair, MBBS MPH, Portfolio
Associate, Acumen Fund

Plus 200 Featured Speakers, including:

"Protecting Children in Disaster and War: Efforts to Professionalize
the Field," 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, Health Policy & International Health; Director, Center for a
Livable Future, Department 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 Hopkins University

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


Regards.
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Fouad Bajwa
@skBajwa
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http://www.askbajwa.com
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