[interphen] Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale
- From: Jennifer Staple-Clark <jstaple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:46:22 +0000
Dear Colleagues,
You and your colleagues may be interested in attending the upcoming annual
Global Health & Innovation Conference at
Yale<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference>, which is the world's largest and
leading global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship
conference. We would appreciate it if you could please forward this
announcement to your colleagues who may be interested in attending or
presenting. For those interested in presenting at the conference, we are
currently accepting social enterprise pitch abstracts for presentation.
Global Health & Innovation Conference
Presented by Unite For Sight, 11th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 12 - Sunday, April 13, 2014
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 by March 20th to secure the
lowest registration rate: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
Interested in presenting at the conference? Submit a social enterprise pitch
abstract<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/abstracts> for consideration.
The conference's 300 confirmed speakers include:
Keynote Addresses
* "Reducing Toxins to Protect Health: A Global Concern," Arlene Blum, PhD,
Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley; Green Science Policy Institute
* "Of Course it Matters, and We Know You Care, But Now, What are You Going
To Do About It?" Seth Godin, Blogger, Agent of Change; New York Times
Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com
* "Inventing the Future of Food," Gary Hirshberg, Co-Founder and CEO,
Stonyfield Farms
* "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food," Michael Moss,
Investigative Reporter, New York Times
* Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute, 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, Columbia University
Business Principles in Global Health Speakers
* "Applying Business Principles to Global Health: Starting with the
Customer," Amy Lockwood, Chief of Staff to the Director of Research, UCSF,
Global Health Sciences
* "Linking Health Impact to the Business Decision-Making Process," Kim
Longfield, Director, Research and Metrics, Population Services International
* "Price Expectation and Willingness to Pay for Health Products in Uganda,"
Margaret McConnell, Assistant Professor of Global Health Economics, Department
of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Heatlh
* "Bringing to Light Hidden Incentives and Disincentives in Global Health,"
Grant Miller, PhD, MPP, Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor of
Economics and of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University; Senior
Fellow, FSI; Core Faculty Member, CHP/PCOR
Design Thinking Speakers
* "Fingerprints & Funny Bones: How Technology, Celebrities and Marketing
3.0 Got Us to a 96% HCT Rate in South Africa," Cal Bruns, CEO/Chief Creative
Incubationist, Matchboxology
* "The Laddoo Project: Embedding Sustainable Health Interventions in
Low-Income Communities," Ramsey Ford, Visiting Assistant Professor, Industrial
Design, University of Cincinnati; Design Director, Design Impact
* "Using Human-Centered Design to Drive Innovations in Family Planning:
IDEO.org + MSI," Jade Gray, Business Development Associate, Ideo.org
* "Creating Our Way to Wellbeing for Individuals, Corporations, and
Communities," Cheryl Heller, Chair, MFA Design for Social Innovation, School of
Visual Arts; Partner, CommonWise
* "Designing Change: Using Design Thinking to Rethink Public Initiatives in
Mexico," Jamie Jones, Clinical Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Practice,
Director of Social Entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management
* "The Future of Healthcare Systems: A Designer's Perspective," Kenneth
Kaplan, MSW, MArch, HP, Senior Health System Advisor, PTSI Project;
Sociotechnical Systems Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* "See What Your Words Say: Translating Foreign Aid into Domestic Support,"
Bob McKinnon, President GALEWiLL Design; Director, the GALEWiLL Center for
Opportunity & Progress
* "Application of Design Thinking to Global Health Device Development: A
Discussion of a Risk Matrix Method to Navigate through the 'Valley of Death'
from Concept to Manufacturing and Marketing," Robert Miros, CEO, 3rd Stone
Design Inc.
* "Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Case for Human Centered Design,"
Meira Neggaz, Senior Program Officer, MSI-US
* "Designing Effective Strategies for Global Health Communication,"Natacha
Poggio, Assistant Professor, Visual Communication Design, Hartford Art School,
University of Hartford; Founder, Design Global Change
Environment Health, Energy, Food and Agriculture Speakers
* "Redesigning Regional Food Systems for Public Health," Michael Conard,
RA, NCARB, Senior Principal, Design + Urbanism Architectural, LLC; Urban Design
Lab at the Earth Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
* "Leveraging Markets to Improve Nutrition through Agriculture,"Bonnie
McClafferty, Director, Agriculture and Nutrition, Global Alliance for Improved
Nutrition (GAIN)
* "Eggcrate UV: A Novel, More Efficient Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation
System for Air Disinfection in Occupied Rooms," Sonya Milonova, Research
Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health
* "Indoor Pollution and Health: Evaluating the Effects of Smokeless Stoves
on Rural Communities in Central Honduras," Rommy Michelle Porras, Pediatrics,
Georgetown University Hospital
* "Farmers First: Proven Methods to Increase the Productivity of Africa's
Smallholder Farmers," Barrett Prinz, Director, Global Human Resources and
Legal, One Acre Fund
* "Glyphosate: The Elephant in the Room," Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research
Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Film, Photography, Art & Global Health Speakers
* "500 Years," Paco de Onis, Producer, Skylight Pictures
* "Patient Empowerment: How the Visually Impaired Can Become Better
Advocates for Themselves...And for Their Service Providers," Joseph Lovett,
Producer/Director, Going Blind
* "Flipping the Narrative About Global Health: Engaging Creative
Communities to Tell New Development Stories," Lisa Russell, Emmy-Winning
Filmmaker and Global Health Advocate, Governess Films
Healthcare Delivery Models and Impact Measurement
* "Making a Cure as Common as a Coca-Cola," Eric Bing, MD, PhD, MBA, Senior
Fellow & Director, Global Health, George W. Bush Institute; Professor of Global
Health, Southern Methodist University, Co-Author Pharmacy on a Bicycle:
Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty
* "What Does the Cuban System Have to Offer the World in the 21st Century?"
Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Senior Research Fellow, Green Templeton College,
University of Oxford; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University,
Grenada; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC); formerly
Special Assistant to the President of the US for Health Issues; Assistant
Secretary General, United Nations
* "Improving Access to Malaria Diagnostic Testing in Africa: Challenges and
Opportunities," Jessica Cohen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health,
Harvard School of Public Health; Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings Institution;
Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Center for International Development; Malaria
Technical Adviser, Clinton Health Access Initiative; Co-Founder, TAMTAM Africa,
Inc.
* "Leveraging a Vertical National Quality Improvement Program in Haiti to
Spread Quality Improvement Across Clinical Care," Jean Paul Joseph, Quality
Improvement Coordinator and Monitoring Evaluation Officer, Zanmi
Lasante/Partners In Health
* "Access to Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACT) Remain Low in a Rural
District of Uganda Despite the Introduction of Subsidy Schemes to Make ACTs
More Affordable through the Private Sector," Rosemin Kassam, BSc Pharm, Pharm
D, RPh, ACPR, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, School of Population
and Public Health; Global Health, Cross-Cultural Health Delivery, Medication
Management, and Health Promotion Research, The University of British Columbia
* "A Vaccine to Prevent HIV: When and How," John McGoldrick, Chair, Zimmer
Holdings, Inc.; Special Advisor, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
* "Impact of Managed Transport on Health Logistics, Productivity and Equity
in Southern Zambia: An Evaluation Using an Interrupted Time Series Design,"
Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH, Faculty Affiliate, Global Supply Chain Management Forum,
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Assistant Professor, Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
* "Using a Point-of-Care EMR for Primary Care Surveillance at University
Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti," Gabou Mendy, Mirebalais University Hospital
Director, Zanmi Lasante/Partners In Health
* "Behavioral Economics: A Toolkit for Rational Health Decisions and
Methods in Resource Poor Countries," Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor, USAID,
Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and the Environment
* "Funding, Partnerships, and Access: Innovative Approaches to Bring
Medicines to Emerging Markets and Developing Countries," Adam Schechter,
Executive Vice President and President, Global Human Health, Merck & Co.
* "From Zero to Something: Building a Global Health Program from Scratch,"
Harsh Sule, MD, MPP, Assistant Professor and Director of International
Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University & Hospitals
* "Perspectives on Health Policies and Programs in Ghana," Seth Wanye, MD,
Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Friends Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For
Sight Partner
* "Practical Performance Management for Poverty Related Organizations: The
Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®)", Steve Wright, VP Poverty Tools and
Insights, Grameen Foundation
Health Education and University Education Initiatives in Global Health Speakers
* "Global Education for American Medical Students," Susan Hall Forster, MD,
Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Medical Studies, Yale School of
Medicine; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Studies, Chief of
Ophthalmology, Yale Health; Medical Director of Eye Department, Cornell Scott
Hill Health Center
* "Redefining Scale," Jordan Levy, Managing Director, Ubuntu Education Fund
* "Teaching Global Health: What Should We Teach and How Can We Teach It?"
Richard Skolnik, Lecturer, Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale
School of Public Health; Author, "Essentials of Global Health/Global Health 101"
* Accompaniment in Healthcare Change: Why One Time Educational Training
Interventions in Primary Care are Just Not Enough in Rural East Africa, Monica
Slinkard, MSN, ANP-BC, WHNP-BC, Medical Director, LifeNet International
Health Policy & Advocacy
* "Malaria Advocacy: Shining a Spotlight on Public and Private Sector
Leadership in Africa," Hannah Bowen, Director of Policy & Advocacy, Malaria No
More
* "The Paradox of Universal Health Access," Elizabeth Bradley, Professor of
Public Health, Yale University; Master, Branford College; Faculty Director,
Yale Global Health Leadership Institute
* "Do You Want to Make a Profound Difference on Global Health and Climate
Change? Reclaiming Our Democracy Matters More than You Think!" Sam
Daley-Harris, CEO, Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation, A Project
of RESULTS Educational Fund
* "Nutrition and the Politics of Food," Michael Jacobson, PhD, Executive
Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest
* "Organizing, Leadership, and Politics: Building a Social Movement for
Health as a Human Right," Jon Shaffer, Community Engagement Coordinator,
Partners In Health
* "Innovations in Healthcare Management and Patient Centered Care," Richard
Siegrist, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Associate Academic
Director, MHCM Program; Adjunct Lecturer on Health Care Management, Harvard
School of Public Health
* "Not All Advocates are Activists: The Power of Unlikely Leaders in the
Health Sector," Katy Spencer, Director of Business Development, Change.org
* "How to Restore Trust and Social Responsibility in Medicine," Leana Wen,
MD, MSc, Director, Patient-Centered Care Research, Department of Emergency
Medicine, The George Washington University
* "Cochrane: The Next 20 Years and the Future of Systematic Reviews," Mark
Wilson, CEO, The Cochrane Collaboration
Maternal and Child Health Speakers
* "How to Lead with Vision and Still Manage an Organization: Chief Creative
Officer's Challenges," Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans
Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical
College and Columbia University
* "The Role of the Private Sector in the Provision of Maternal and Child
Care in Latin America," Alejandro Arrieta, PhD, Robert Stempel College of
Public Health & Social Work, Florida International University
* "Correlates of Complete Childhood Vaccinations in East African
Countries," Maureen Canavan, PhD, MPH, Associate Research Scientist, Yale
University School of Public Health
* "Maternal Mortality in South Asia: How an Indian State Almost Beat the
American National Capital," Savita Chandra, Professor and Head, Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Goa Medical College and Hospital
* "Shifting the Focus: Lessons from Leveraging Technology for Maximal
Effect in Addressing Postpartum Hemorrhage," Claire Cole, MPH, Technical
Documentation Advisor, Pathfinder International
* "Low-Cost HPV Testing: Developing a National Screen-and-Treat Program in
a Low-Resource Setting," Lauren Ditzian, MS, Director of Programs & Operations,
Basic Health International
* "Postnatal Kits for Medical Consultations Within Six Days After Delivery
in Haiti: An Innovative Strategy that Could Help Reduce Infant and Maternal
Mortality," Colin Gilmartin, Technical Officer, Management Sciences for Health
* "Clinical Evaluation: Combined Visual Inspection and Pap for Cervical
Cancer Prevention," Susan Howe, MPH, Epidemiologist, Clínica Fara, Matagalpa,
Nicaragua
* "Advancing Abortion Access in Hostile Environments: New Approaches from a
Holistic Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Framework," Ellen Israel,
Senior Technical Advisor for Women's Health and Rights, Pathfinder International
* "Innovators in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Profiles of the
Capable and Committed in Communities around the World," Latanya Mapp Frett,
Vice President, Global Planned Parenthood Federation of America
* "The NTDs, Girls and Women, and Blue Marble Health," Peter Hotez, MD,
PhD, Professor in Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor
College of Medicine; Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital;
President, Sabin Vaccine Institute; Director, Texas Children's Hospital Center
for Vaccine Development; Baker Institute Fellow in Disease and Poverty, Rice
University
* "'H' is for Health: Sesame Street's Efforts to Promote Children's Health
around the World," June Lee, Assistant Vice President of Global Research,
Sesame Workshop
* "Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Maternal and Child Health
Outcomes," Tricia Morente, COO, Kangu
* "Transforming Medical Education on a Grand Scale: The Rwandan Human
Resources for Health Program," Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Past Chair, AAP
Section International Child Health Executive Committee; Director, Nurseries at
Middlesex Hospital
* "Helping Infertile Couples in Low Resource Countries with Low Cost
Programs," Pasquale Patrizio, Professor of Obestrics and Gynecology, Yale
School of Medicine; Director, Yale Fertility Center
* "Closing the Gap: Reaching Rural Women with Family Planning Options,"
Mindy Skelton, Field Operations Officer, Lwala Community Alliance; MPH
Candidate, John Hopkins University
* "Maternal Determinants of Timely Vaccination Coverage Among Infants in
Rural Bangladesh," Lavanya Vasudevan, PhD, MPH, CPH, Research Scholar, Duke
Global Health Institute; Associate, Department of International Health, Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
* "Improving Maternal Outcomes in Resource Poor Rural Environments: A Case
Study in Tanzania," Linda Winkler, PhD, MPH, Special Assistant to the Provost:
Director of International Outreach, Wilkes University
Mental and Neurological Health Speakers
* "From Visibility to Transformation: Global Mental Health and the
Post-2015 Agenda," Gary Belkin, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Director,
Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine; Senior
Director for Psychiatric Services, New York City Health and Hospitals
Corporation
* "The Role of Mixed Research Methodologies in Global Mental Health
Research," Christina Borba, PhD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard
Medical School; The Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry; The
MGH Schizophrenia Program
* More speakers to be announced
* "Bringing Care to Where the Patient Is: Building a Community-Based Model
of Epilepsy Care into a Government Health Care System in Haiti," Shin Daimyo,
MPH, Clinical Program Officer, Partners In Health
* "Prevention of Brain Disorders: A Global Priority," Sandro Galea, MD,
MPH, DrPH, Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor and Chair of
Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Other Non-Communicable Diseases Speakers
* "Instituting Thrombolytics for STEMI in Low Income Settings: Lessons
Learned from American Samoa," David Bouslough, MD, MPH, FACEP, Assistant
Clinical Professor, Director, Division of International Emergency Medicine,
Department of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown
University; Director of Life Support Education, Clinical Advisor for Emergency
Medicine, Emergency Preparedness, and Palliative Care, LBJ Tropical Medical
Center, American Samoa
* "Why NCDs Matter to Business: The Private Sector's Role, Resources, and
Responsibilities," Eve Heyn, Manager of Communications & External Affairs,
GBCHealth
* "Building Integrated Systems for NCDs in Rwanda and Haiti," Gene Kwan,
MD, Clinical Fellow, Boston Medical Center and Partners In Health
* "Advances and Collaborative Opportunities in Global Eye Health Research,"
Gyan "John" Prakash, PhD, MBA, Associate Director, International Programs,
National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
* "Save Sight, Give Livelihood: An Innovative Model in India to Reach 2,000
Villages with the Forest Department," Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye
Hospital, NYSASDRI, India; Unite For Sight Partner
* "Game Change: Leveraging Chronic Disease Prevention to Improve US Health
and Competitiveness," Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, DSc, Executive Director, The
Vitality Institute
Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Speakers
* "Writing for Medical and Global Health Journals: An Insider's View ,"
Jocalyn Clark, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
* "The Irrational Health Consumer: Understanding and Addressing
Underinvestment in Preventative Health," Rachel Glennerster, PhD, Director,
J-PAL Global; Scientific Director, J-PAL Africa; Co-Chair, Agriculture
* "From Counting to Quality: Integration and Transformation of Monitoring,
Evaluation, and Quality Improvement Systems Across Partners In Health," Lisa
Hirschhorn, Monitoring, Evaluation & Quality Improvement Director, Partners In
Health
* "Vision Rehabilitation in Glaucoma: Research Opportunities and
Challenges," James 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
* "Rethinking the Role of Research in Enhancing State Capability for
Implementation," Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist,
Development Research Group, The World Bank
Philanthropy and Investment Speakers
* "Re-Imagining Philanthropy for Global Health," Diana Ayton-Shenker,
Founder and CEO, Fast Forward Fund
* "Building an Impactful Micro-Enterprise Development Organization in
Small, Remote, Pacific Island Communities," Greg Casagrande, Founder,
MicroDreams
* "The Inventor's Pathway: How Technology Ideas Turn into Products and
Businesses that Improve Lives," Carol Dahl, PhD, Executive Director, The
Lemelson Foundation
* "A Point of Historic Opportunity: Making the Case for Investments in
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria," Deborah Derrick, President, Friends of the
Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
* "The Role of Government Funding for Innovative Projects/Enterprises in
Global Health," Omer Imtiazuddin, Global Health and Impact Investing Consultant
* "A Donor's Toolkit to Promote Change," Judith Helzner, Director,
Population and Reproductive Health, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
* "Social Return on Investment (SROI) in Global Health & Development: A New
Framework for Valuing What Matters," Shubha Kumar, MPH, PhD, Assistant
Professor & Director of Programs, University of Southern California (USC)
* "Responsible Investment in the 21st Century: Recent Trends and
Developments," Steve Lydenberg, Founding Director, Initiative for Responsible
Investment, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University
* "Mainstreaming Impact Investment: Catalyzing Capital for a More Inclusive
Society," Abigail Noble, Impact Investing, Alternative Investing and New
Economic Thinking, World Economic Forum
* "Pay for Performance in Global Health," Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor
of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University
Social Enterprise Speakers
* "Games to Reach Beyond the Converted: The Half the Sky Movement," Asi
Burak, President, Games for Change; Faculty, SVA, Design for Social Innovation
* "Runa: Sustainable Sourcing and Brand Development," Tyler Gage,
Co-Founder and President, Runa
* "Trend Cycles in Natural Food: How Niche Needs Grow to Change how America
Eats," Ian Kelleher, Co-Founder and Director of Sales, Peeled Snacks
* "Experiments in Scaling Social Benefit," Thane Kreiner, PhD, Executive
Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University;
Howard and Alida Charney University Professor of Science and Technology for
Social Benefit, Santa Clara University
* "Achieving Viability Through Utterly Unreasonable & Idealistic
Aspirations," Rodney North, The Answer Man - Information for the Public and
Media, Equal Exchange Coop
* "Lessons Learned from Managing De-Centralized Mini-Grids for
Electrification: What is Next?" Manoj Sinha, Co-Founder, Husk Power Systems
* "Wake Up. Go to Work. Save the World." Arran Stephens, President and
Founder, Nature's Path Foods, Inc.
* "The Chocolate Bar Unwrapped: Lessons Learned Building a Responsible
Business," Joe Whinney, Founder and CEO, Theo Chocolate, Inc.
Social Entrepreneurship Speakers
* "Global Change with a Local Impact: Saving Lives Through Innovation in
Clean Energy - The Power of Social Enterprise," Ron Bills, Chairman and CEO,
Envirofit International
* "What Moves You, Grabs You and Won't Let You Go," Eve Blossom, Founder,
Lulan Artisans
* "Building Modern Institutions on Traditional Values: The Case Studies of
Rwanda and Haiti," Michael Fairbanks, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs, Harvard University
* "Debunking the Cult of the Social Entrepreneur," Scott Gilmore, CEO and
Founder, Building Markets
* "Lessons Learned from SEAD: The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at
Duke," Matt Nash, CASE Managing Director, Fuqua School of Business, Duke
University
* "Building an Ecosystem for Social Innovation: Lessons Learned," Amy
Pearl, Executive Director and CEO, Springboard Innovation
* "Supporting Healthcare Social Entrepreneurs: The IPIHD Story," Krishna
Udayakumar, MD, MBA, Head of Global Innovation, Duke Medicine; Executive
Director, International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD)
Social Media & Marketing Speakers
* "The Difference it Makes: The Impact of Children's Media on Achieving
International Health Development Goals," Charlotte Cole, Blue Butterfly
Collaborative
* "Engaging Young People in Social Change," Dave DeLuca, Head of Campaigns,
Do Something
* "Creating Connected Awesomeness," Scott Henderson, Managing Director,
CauseShift
* Eve Heyn, Communications & External Affairs Manager, GBCHealth
* "Making You Laugh While Saving Your Life Through Animation," Firdaus
Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Culture Shift
Surgery & Global Health Speakers
* "Guidelines for Choosing an Intra-Ocular Lens for Implantation After
Cataract Extraction Where There is No Equipment for Biometry," Thomas Baah, MD,
Ophthalmologist and Director, Save The Nation's Sight Clinic, Ghana
* "Supporting Local Doctors to Build Local Capacity," James Clarke, MD,
Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For
Sight Ghana Medical Director
* "Scaling Up Cataract Surgeries in Ghana: Systems that Work and Those that
Don't," Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist, North Western Eye Centre, Accra,
Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
* "Impossible Dreams: The Ascent of Everest and Eradicating Blindness,"
Geoffrey Tabin, Professor and Director, International Division of
Ophthalmology, University of Utah, John A. Moran Eye Center; Co-Founder and
Co-Director, Himalayan Cataract Project
* "The Role of Global Networking in Improving Local Eyecare Programs: A
Case of Friends Eye Center in Ghana," Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist and
Medical Director, Friends Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
Technology in Global Health Speakers
* "The Next [Global] Scientific Revolution," Nina Dudnik, PhD, Founder &
CEO, Seeding Labs
* "Taking Heed of Maslow: Avoiding the Urge to Nail Every Health Challenge
with the Technology Hammer," Paul Ellingstad, Parter and Program Development
Director, Sustainability and Social Innovation, Hewlett-Packard
* "The Power of Health in Every Mama's Hand: Using Mobile Technology to
Educate and Empower Low-Income Mothers and Families," Kirsten Gagnaire,
Executive Director, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA)
* Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little Devices @MIT and co-founder LDTC+Labs LLC
* "Curing with Upgraded Visions: Planting New Potentials," Martin Gordon,
MD, FAAAS, Emeritus Chairman and Lifetime Trustee, Cushing/Whitney Medical
Library Board; Prior Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of
Medicine
* "Using Mobile Phone, Social Innovation, and Cloud in PMTCT and OVC
Programs," Bobby Jefferson, Director Informatics, Futures Group
* "Affordable Technology-Mediated Rehabilitation of Stroke Survivors in a
Global Context," Michelle Johnson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), University of Pennsylvania
* "Health Education for Low Literacy Communities that is Seen, Read, Heard
and Understood," Brian Julius, Owner, Books of Hope
* "mHealth and ICT Solutions: New Health Systems Strengthening Building
Blocks?" Alain Labrique, Assistant Professor, Program in Global Disease
Epidemiology and Control, Department of International Health and Department of
Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University;
Director, JHU Global mHealth Initiative
* "BreathAlert: High-Performance, Low-Cost Detection and Correction of
Apnea of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings," Kelley Maynard, Director of
Technology Development, Rice 360: Institute for Global Health Technologies,
Rice University
* "Conflict-Free Congo: The Paradox of Our New Technologies," Bandi Mbubi,
Founder, Congo Calling
* "Programmable Bio-Nano-Chips Customized for Affordable Healthcare and
Wellness Applications," John McDevitt, PhD, Brown-Wiess Professor of
Bioengineering and Chemistry, Rice University
* "Hacking Global Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Innovation,"
Kenneth Paik, MD, MBA, Director of Operations, Sana
* "mHealth: Smarter Systems for the Community Health Workforce: The Social
Enterprise's Perspective," Carter Powers, COO, Dimagi, Inc.
* "Tele-Ophthalmology: Newer Ways to Reach Out to India's Large Diabetic
Population," Tamilarasan Senthil, Ophthalmologist, Pranav Eye Foundation, India
* "The Impact of Direct Work Communication and Engagement in Supply Chain
Transparency," Todd Stark, President, Good World Solutions
Water and Sanitation Speakers
* "Rethinking the Water-Health Nexus: Insights from East Africa," Zafar
Adeel, Director, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment
and Health
* "Potential Impacts of the Reinvented Toilet," Doulaye Kone, PhD, Senior
Program Officer, WSH, Toilet Team Transformatives Technologies, Global
Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
* "Food Security, Water Scarcity, and the Right to Health," Bob Lawrence,
MD, Professor in Environmental Health Sciences, The Center for a Livable
Future, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
* "Drinking Water Source and Risk of Orofacial Clefts in the Democratic
Republic of Congo and the Philippines," Haley Raimondi, Manager, Research and
Outcomes Department, Operation Smile, Inc.
Interactive Workshops
* "Redesigning the Future of Food: The Workshop," Michael Conard, RA,
NCARB, Senior Principal, Design + Urbanism Architectural, LLC; Urban Design Lab
at the Earth Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and Judith
LaBelle, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Glynwood
* "The Nero Syndrome: Why Development Projects Fiddle While the World
Burns," Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
* "DIY Medical Technology Hands-on Workshop," Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little
Devices @MIT and co-founder LDTC+Labs LLC
* "Global Health Education: Reviewing Effective Strategies of Dissemination
of Health Information," Brian Heuser, EdD, MTS, Assistant Professor of the
Practice of International Education Policy, Peabody College of Vanderbilt
University, Affiliated Faculty, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
* "From Pitfalls to Perfection: How to Write about Global Health," Eve
Heyn, Manager of Communications & External Affairs, GBCHealth
* "Getting Your Thumbs Dirty: A Practical Session in mHealth Development
Using Interactive SMS," Alain Labrique, Assistant Professor, Program in Global
Disease Epidemiology and Control, Department of International Health and
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins
University; Director, JHU Global mHealth Initiative
* "What Would YOU Do? A Workshop on Hard Choices for Social Enterprise
Start-Ups," Rodney North, The Answer Man - Information for the Public and
Media, Equal Exchange Coop
* "Building Skills to Advocate for Change with Health Data," Tara Nutley,
Senior Technical Specialist, MEASURE Evaluation, Futures Group
* "My Billion Dollar Voice: How Advocacy Is Transforming Global Health,"
Ken Patterson, Global Grassroots Manager, Results
* "Mission Marketing: How to Succeed and Fail Changing Behavior," Joe
Whinney, Founder and CEO, Theo Chocolate, Inc.
Complete conference details can be seen on the 2014 Global Health & Innovation
Conference website.<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/>
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