[Announce] Abstracts and Registration: Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale

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GH/Innovate 2010
Global Health & Innovation Conference
Presented by Unite For Sight, 7th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010

Register Today For Lowest Registration Rate (Rate Increases After August 
31): http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

Call For Abstracts: Submit an abstract online at 
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
The abstract deadline is September 20.

“A Meeting of Minds”—CNN

200 speakers, including keynote addresses by Seth Godin, Jeffrey Sachs 
and Sonia Sachs. 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 Conference convenes more than 2,200 
participants from 55 countries. The conference 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 in Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Director, mothers2mothers

Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore 
Foundation

Kevin Jones, Co-Founder, Good Capital

"Creating Viable Enterprises For The Base of the Pyramid," Ted London, 
PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, 
William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

"From Ideas To Action Workshop: Creating Viable Enterprises For The Base 
of the Pyramid," Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base 
of the Pyramid Initiative, William Davidson Institute at the University 
of Michigan

"Doing More With Less," Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something

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

"Achieving Global Health Through Community Wealth," Billy Shore, Founder 
and CEO, Share Our Strength

"Investing in Local Social Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries," 
Jennifer Staple-Clark, Founder, President and CEO, Unite For Sight

"Solutions That Can Go Big: How To Think About Scalability," Kevin 
Starr, MD, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation

"WaterCredit: Driving Financial Innovation in Water Supply & Sanitation 
For The Poor," Gary White, Executive Director, Water.org

Andrew Wolk, CEO, Root Cause

Plus 200 Featured Speakers, including:

Ron Adelman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Yale 
University Eye Center

"HIV Medication to Empower Communities: An International Model," Jesus 
Aguais, Executive Director, Aid for AIDS

"Reconciling the WHO's International Classification of Functioning, 
Disability and Health with the Multi-dimensional Resilience Index," 
Astier Almedom, DPhil, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and 
Global Public Health

"Large-Scale Effectiveness Evaluations of Maternal and Child Programs in 
Low-Income Countries: A New Approach," Agbessi Amouzou, PhD, Assistant 
Scientist, Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg 
School of Public Health

Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide

"Three Unique Models For Services For Orphans and Vulnerable Children: 
Worldwide Orphans Foundation in Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Bulgaria," 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

"Workshop -- How To Create an NGO That Does Community Work With Children 
Abroad: The Ins and Outs, The Ups and Downs," 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

"Meeting The Global Physician Shortage: The Contribution of Cuba's Latin 
American Medical School," 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)

"Medical Innovation in Humanitarian Situations: The Work of Medecins San 
Frontieres," Jean-Herve Bardol, MD, Former President of MSF-France; 
Former Board Member, MSF-USA

Kathleen Casey, MD, FACS, Director, Operation Giving Back, American 
College of Surgeons

"The Latin American and Carribean Initiative for the Integration of 
Prenatal Care with the Testing and Treatment of HIV and Syphilis," 
Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine; 
Academic Director, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, 
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School 
/ Partners in Health

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

"Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Health Care Systems," 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

"Diagnosis and Treatment of Glaucoma For Persons on Medical Missions," 
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

"Building a Distributed Village Model," Zoravar Dhaliwal, CEO, Community Lab

"Partnerships - Are We There Yet," Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN 
Office for Partnerships

Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

"America's Vital Interests in Global Health," 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

"Simple Solutions To Complex Problems: How A Text Message Can Save A 
Life," Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation 
Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

"Workshop: How To Advance Global Health Through Technology and Social 
Entrepreneurship," Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD 
Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

"Obstetric Fistula - The Ultimate Indignity, Gender Inequality, and 
Poverty," 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

"Siyajabula! The Challenges of Developing Empathic Care Intervention 
Methodology for Children and Guardians Affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern 
Africa," 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

Bill Livermore, Executive Director, Somaly Mam Foundation

"Changing The World While Keeping Your Day Job," Nicholas Lumpp, 
Cofounder, Somaly Mam Foundation

Pamela Lynam, MD, Country Director Kenya, JHPIEGO - Johns Hopkins University

"An AIDS Vaccine: Progress To End The Epidemic," 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

"Society, Migration, Culture and Women," 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

"Role of Inflammation in Retinal Degeneration," 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

"Global Health Partnerships--Critical Success Factors and Lessons 
Learned From A Private Sector Perspective," 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

"Vision 2020/USA and The Future of Collaborative Efforts in Blindness 
Prevention," Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International 
Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

"Online Innovation and Trends in Global Health," Suzanne Rainey, Forum 
One Communications

"Leveraging Advances in Nanotechnology and Consumer Electronics to 
Detect Infectious Diseases at the Point of Care," Rebecca 
Richards-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of 
Bioengineering, Rice University

"Partnership Models in International Health, The Yale Experience," Majid 
Sadigh, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

"How To Develop a Sustainable Eye Care Plan For Rural Regions," Sarang 
Salam, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India

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

"Avoidable Blindness and Eye Care in Latin America and the Caribbean," 
Juan Carlos Silva, MD, MPH, Regional Advisor in Prevention of Blindness, 
PAHO-WHO

"Integration of Surgery Into Population-Based Healthcare in Learning 
Models of Integrated Care," David Spiegel, MD, Children's Hospital of 
Philadelphia; Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of 
Medicine

"Where There Is No Light: Using Solar Power to Reduce Maternal Mortality 
in Nigeria," Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC 
Berkeley School of Public Health; Founder, WE CARE Solar

John E. Tedstrom, PhD, President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on 
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)

"Trabeculectomy Glaucoma Surgery: Clincal Pearls," 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

"Can We Eliminate Blinding Trachoma by 2020?" Sheila West, PhD, 
El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, 
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

"Innovation in Global Health Research," 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

"The Global Fight Against Malaria: U.S. Strategy for Combating Malaria 
Around The World," Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, 
President's Malaria Initiative