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Global Impact Corps: Global Health Volunteer Abroad Opportunities

http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

Unite For Sight has been featured weekly on CNN International and in The New York Times

Unite For Sight is the world's leader in socially responsible, effective volunteering abroad. Unite For Sight's Global Impact Corps is an immersive global health experience for students and for professionals.  All volunteers participating in Unite For Sight's international programs are Global Impact Fellows.  They participate daily with local ophthalmic nurses, local optometrists, and local ophthalmologists to support and assist the clinic in outreach programs that reduce all of the barriers to health care, including financial, transportation and education barriers.

Through hands-on, structured training, fellows gain a comprehensive understanding about best practices in volunteerism, global health, and international development.  Global Impact Fellows gain skills and are nurtured to become new leaders in global health.  Additionally, Global Impact Fellows may participate in the Global Impact Lab, an optional program for fellows interested in pursuing global health research.

Locations (volunteer for 10 days, 20 days, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 10 weeks, or more)

• Accra Region, Ghana
• Rural Villages, Ghana
• Tamale, Ghana
• Tegucigalpa, Honduras
• Bihar, India
• Chennai, India
• New Delhi, India
• Orissa, India

Complete Details:http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

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Global Health & Innovation Summit
The World's Leading Idea Incubator For Global Health Innovation

A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010

Registration Now Open (Early Bird Registration Rate):http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

Call For Abstracts: Submit an abstract online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference  The first deadline for abstract submission is August 15, and the final abstract deadline is September 20.

"A Meeting of Minds," --CNN

200 Speakers in April 2010, Including Keynote Addresses by Seth Godin, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs. Plus 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 Summit convenes more than 2,200 participants from 55 countries. The Summit 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 of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers

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

Kevin Jones, Co-Founder, Good Capital

Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something

Nicholas Lumpp, Cofounder, Somaly Mam Foundation

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

Billy Shore, JD, Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength

Kevin Starr, MD, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation

Gary White, Executive Director, WaterPartners

Andrew Wolk, CEO, Root Cause

Plus 200 Featured Speakers, including:

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

Jesus Aguais, Executive Director, Aid for AIDS

Astier Almedom, DPhil, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health

Agbessi Amouzou, PhD, Assistant Scientist, Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Zoravar Dhaliwal, CEO, Community Lab

Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnerships

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

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

Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

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

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

Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

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

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

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

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

Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons

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

Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, Rice University

Majid Sadigh, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

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

David Spiegel, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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

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

Sheila West, PhD, El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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

Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiative

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Global Impact Corps: Innovative, Effective Volunteering Abroad

Be a Global Impact Fellow in Ghana, Honduras, or India
Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter Opportunities

http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

Unite For Sight has been featured weekly on CNN International and in The New York Times

Unite For Sight is the world's leader in socially responsible, effective volunteering abroad. We engage, inspire, and train high-impact volunteers who support and assist eye clinics globally.Unite For Sight supports eye clinics worldwide by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care. With the assistance of volunteers like you, Unite For Sight has restored sight to 21,190 patients and provided eye care to more than 700,000.

All volunteers participating in Unite For Sight's international programs are Global Impact Fellows. Our goal is to build entrepreneurial leaders who gain skills in social change through Unite For Sight's immersive global health experience. Through hands-on, structured training, we instill in our Global Impact Fellows a thorough understanding of sustainable best practice principles in volunteerism, global health, and international development. Global Impact Fellows gain skills and are nurtured to become new leaders in global health.

Why Become A Global Impact Fellow?

• Experience the thrill of contributing to change on the highest level
• Be part of global problem solving
• Receive hands-on training in community-based program delivery
• Be immersed in effective global health and eye care programs
• Be inspired to become a leader in global health
• Join a movement of social innovators committed to global health and sustainable development
• Be engaged in ethical, high quality and high impact volunteerism
• Volunteers are encouraged to pursue entrepreneurial projects and research studies
• Become part of an alumni network that supports leaders in social change

Locations (volunteer for 10 days, 20 days, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 10 weeks, or more)

• Accra Region, Ghana
• Rural Villages, Ghana
• Tamale, Ghana
• Tegucigalpa, Honduras
• Bihar, India
• Chennai, India
• New Delhi, India
• Orissa, India

Complete Details:http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

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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     NEW: Conference Schedule Online

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

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Global Health and Innovation Summit
A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

"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.

The Global Health and Innovation Summit convenes a committed vanguard of 2,500 people from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative solutions to achieve global goals.

Confirmed 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

Confirmed Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

"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

"Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems," Julia Devin, JD, MPH, Director of Programs, VillageReach

"Improving Public Health Delivery Through Social Entrepreneurship," 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

Ajay Nair, MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund

Confirmed Featured Speakers

"Progress Towards Eliminating Blindness Due To Trachoma: Findings of Post-Intervention Impact Trachoma Prevalence Surveys in Seven Countries," Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International Trachoma Initiative

"Unearthing Local Definitions of Child Protection and Well-Being," Alastair Ager, PhD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

"Keratoprosthesis as an Option for the Developing World: A Review of Pilot Projects in Ethiopia and Sudan," Jared Ament, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmology & Corneal Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health

"Religious Teaching and Identity Construction in the Context of HIV Infection in Three Regions of Senegal," David Ansari, Intermural Research Training Fellow, National Institute on Aging

"Holistic Children's Services For Orphans Abroad," 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 Organization To Do Community Work Abroad," 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

Elizabeth Ashbourne, Results Secretariat, OPCS, World Bank

"A New Legal Theory for International Law – The “Health Authority to Protect” Doctrine," Jeannette L. Austin, JD, MPP, Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School

"Becoming a Mobile Foot Soldier: The Development of a Social Venture to Provide Care Throughout Ghana," Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana

"Open Access Education - Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge," Richard Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

"Academician or Advocate? Making Scientific Research and Human Rights Fit," Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, Associate Professor, Tulane University; Vice President, Doctors for Global Health

"Investing in Sight - Where Will The Capital Come From?" Shari Berenbach, MBA, President & CEO, Calvert Foundation

"An Innovative Program to Deliver Vision Care to Persons with Intellectual Disabilities – Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes," Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes

"Tools for Effective Global Health Advocacy," Natasha Bilimoria, Executive Director, Friends of the Global Fight

David Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

"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

"Cuba: Care-Giver to the World," 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)

Dondeena Bradley, PhD, Vice President, Corporate Nutrition, PepsiCo

"Strenghtening Health Systems: The Role of Universities in Global Health," Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration; Director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health

"Key Predictors of Global Health, Life Expectancy, and the Burden of Illness: A New World Model," M. Harvey Brenner, PhD, Chair and Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences School of Public Health University of North Texas Health Science Center; Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

"A Tragic Global Dilemma: So Many Cataracts, So Few Surgeries," Harry Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International

"Molecular Mechanisms of Parasite Immune Evasion," Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

"Prevalence of Blindness in West African Adults: The Tema Eye Survey," Don Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

"U.S. Life Expectancy: Why are We #28," Sarah Burd-Sharps, Co-director, American Human Development Project

"The Surgeon's Role in Global Public Health," Kathleen Casey, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons

"Bringing Global Health Research Home," Jennifer Chow, Program Manager, Global Health Research Advocacy, Research!America

Michael Chu, MBA, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

"Connectivity & Health Information Needs: Alternative Approaches," Thomas Cook, PT, PhD, Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health

"Demonstration of Impact of Partnerships in Developing Countries Through Economic Modeling" Scott Corlew, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast

"Open Medicine: A Journal and a Social Movement," Jessica Cowan-Dewar, Editorial Fellow, Open Medicine

"Developing an Interdisciplinary Master of Science in Global Health at Duke University," Lisa Croucher, Assistant Director, Education and Training, Global Health Institute, Duke University

"Hand of Hope (Here Bolo): A Peer Education Tool for Low Literacy Settings," Annie de Groot, MD, Founder and Scientific Director, GAIA Vaccince Foundation; Associate Professor of Medicine, Brown University

"Health in the Millennium Villages: Scaling Up In Unexpected Ways," Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD Candidate, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health & Economic Development; Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Prjoect

"The American Medical Model - Are We Right To Export It?" Emmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue Committee

"Good Approaches To Community Eye Health, Robert Dolo, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

"Gender Differences in HIV Testing, ARV Enrollment, and Treatment Adherence: Lessons Learned at the Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti," Darwin Dorestan, MD, Coordinator of HIV and TB Programs, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti

"Why Follow-Up Is A Must For All Medical Care," Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

"How To Train Community Eye Health Workers in Villages and Refugee Camps: The Impact Of A Community-Based Model," Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

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

"A Model Program for International Collaborations in Latin America," Javier Escobar, MD, MSc, Associate Dean for Global Health, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

"Racial Discrimination and the Right to Health: US Obligations Under The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination," Dabney Evans, MPH, Executive Director, Emory University Institute of Human Rights; Lecturer, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University

"The Ethical, Social, Cultural, and Commercialization Issues on International Agro-Biotechnology Initiatives in Africa," Obidimma Ezezika, PhD, MEM, Senior Research Fellow, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto

"Using the Community Tool Box to Build Global Capacity for Community Health and Development," Stephen Fawcett, PhD, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre, University of Kansas

"The Role of Cultural Competency in International Health Care and Volunteerism," Valda Ford, MPH, MS, RN, CEO and Founder, Center For Human Diversity

"Ophthalmic Screening in China to Improve Access to Eye Care," Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

"Community-Based Participatory Research in Maternal Health in the Dominican Republic,"Jennifer Foster, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Emory University

"Releasing Latent Capacity in a Resource-Constrained Health System Through Government-NGO Partnership Systems Innovation," James Fraser, MA, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dignitas International

"AIDS in the Dominican Republic's Sugercane Batey Communities," Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, The Batey Relief Alliance

"The Fogarty (NIH) International Clinical Research Training Programs," Pierce Gardner, MD, Fogarty International Center, Fogarty International Center, NIH

"Unlocking the Power of Social Norms: Innovative Strategies for Community-Led Transformation in Health and Development," Gannon Gillespie, Director of US Operations, Tostan

"Improvement in Adherence Counseling and Management of Patients on ART in Developing Countries as a Result of Clinical Mentoring Programs," Katie Graves-Abe, Director of Operations, International Center for Equal Healthcare Access

"Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Deliver Affordable Eyeglasses and Eye Care," David Grosof, President, OptiOpia

"Nutritional Management of Cataracts," Heskel Haddad, MD, Ophthalmologist; President, Optoed Corp, Inc.

"Socioemergence: Cultural and Political Dimensions of Emergent Viral Disease in Equatorial Africa's Forests," Rebecca Hardin, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

"Measuring Service Quality With Community Providers," Katharine Haxall, Child Survival and Health Program Officer, International Rescue Committee

"Interplast: The Evolution from Volunteer Medical Missions to Surgical Capacity Building in the Global South," Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast

"Experiences In International Education: Teaching The Course Management of Humanitarian Emergencies," Marisa Herran, MD, Co-Director Rainbow Center for Global Child Health , Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, CWRU

"HIV Prevention and Detection Pilot Project in the Sugarcane Plantation Bateyes of Eastern Dominican Republic," Sabrina Hermosilla, MIA, MPH, MS, Columbia University International Family AIDS Program

"Assessing And Addressing Primary Care Service Delivery Challenges in Rural, Low-Resource Settings - Lessons Learned at the Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti," Fritz Gaetan Heyliger, MD, Coordinator of Primary Care Services, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti

"Illustrations as a Patient Education Tool to Improve Recall of Postoperative Cataract Medication Regimes in the Developing World," M. Scott Hickman, MD, Lawrence Eye Care Associates

"Strengthening the Capacity of Families and Communities: A Foundation's Experience in Addressing Blindness," Steve Hilton, President and CEO, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

"Global Collaborations to Improve Worker Safety on Roads," Jane Hingston, Global Collaborations, National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health

"Mitigating The Impacts of the Food Crisis in Rural Haiti: Lessons Learned From Hopital Albert Schweitzer's Emergency Nutrition Program," Erlantz Hyppolite, MD, Coordinator of Maternal and Child Health Program, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti

"Challenges and Potential of Genetic Manipulation of Insect Vectors of Disease," Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

"Current Patterns in Pre-hospital Trauma Care in Kampala, Uganda and the Feasibility of a Modified First-aid Course for Lay-First Responders," Sudha Jayaraman, MD, MSc, Resident Physician and Fellow, UCSF Depts of Surgery & Global Health Sciences

"Building Sustainable Strategic Information Systems in Low-Resource Countries," Bobby Jefferson, Senior Information Technology Advisor, SRA International; Senior IT Advisor - HIV/AIDS, Futures Group International

"Microbicide Clinical Trials: A Case Study for Ethical Examination of International Clinical Trials in HIV/STI Prevention," Clair Kaplan, MSN, RN, APRN, MHS, MT, Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Nursing

"Innovative Programs to Address the Burden of Diabetes in Low Resource Economies," Anil Kapur, MD, Managing Director, World Diabetes Foundation

"Eye Care Services in Liberia: The Post War Challenges," Kartee Karloweah, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

"Atrocities and Social Entrepreneuriship," Zachary Kaufman, JD Candidate, Yale Law School; DPhil Candidate in International Relations, Oxford University

"Educating Leaders for Health Management ," Sosena Kebede, MD, MPH, Program Director, Yale-Clinton Foundation, Jimma-Yale MHA Program

"What is the Role of Universities in Developing and Educating The Next Global Health Leaders?" Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health

Karen King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Reed Intermediate School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana

"Building Mid-level HCW Capacity To Counter Doctor Migration in Nepal," Stephen Knoble, MHS, PA-C, Training Consultant, Nick Simons Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal

"Remote Prescriptive Learning - A Cost-Effective Tool to Increase Healthcare Capacity in the Developing World," Colleen Kraft, MD, President/Virginia Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics

"Reproductive Health Interventions as a Response to the Post-Election Violence in Kenya," Sandra Krause, Director, Reproductive Health Program, Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children

"The Development of School-Based Health Services in Nicaragua," Patricia Ryan-Krause, MS, RN, MSN, CPNP, Associate Professor, Yale School of Nursing

"Global Health and International Affairs: Meeting the Challenge," Randall Kuhn, Director, Global Health Affairs Program, University of Denver, International Studies

"Pathways to Empathetic Psychosocial Care for Families Affected by HIV/AIDS, Poverty, and Violence in Southern Africa - Developing Local Capacity For Sustainable Intervention Practices on the Community Level," Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders

"Improved Instruments for Trachoma Surgery," Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems

"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

"Innovative Tools for Education: Ophthalmic News and Education (O.N.E.â„¢) Network," Brian Leonard, MD, University of Ottawa Eye Institute, Ottawa Hospital, Canada; American Academy of Ophthalmology

"Women are Key to Community Health," Jill Lester, President and CEO, The Hunger Project

"Development of a Business Model for the Implementation of a Sustainable Point of Use Water Filter Program in the Dominican Republic," Roger Lewis, PhD, CIH, Division Director, Envionmental Health, Saint Louis University School of Public Health

"Pain and Policy: The Battle with Needless Suffering," Diederik Lohman, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch

"Community-Based Projects To Improve Quality of Life For People Living With HIV/AIDS," Julia Love, Director of Communications,The Resource Foundation

"Health In The Urban Slums: Let the People Lead the Way," Pamela Lynam, MD, Country Director, Kenya, JHPIEGO

"Duke-Engineering World Health: Biomedical Engineering Making a Difference in Developing World Hospitals," Robert Malkin, PhD, PE, Professor of Practice of Biomedical Engineering Director, Duke-Engineering World Health, Duke University

"Glaucoma and Volunteerism," Roger Martin, Patient Advocate

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

"The Need For A Global Shift in Global Health: The Emerging Focus on Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases in Developing Countries," Michelle McMurry, Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative, The Aspen Institute

"Defining Innovation in mHealth: Opportunities and Challenges of Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for mHealth at the Millennium Village Project," Patricia Mechael, MHS, PhD, mHealth and Telemedicine Advisor, Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University

"A Rights-Based Approach to US Health Care Reform: Realizing the Highest Attainable Standard of Health Through a Focus on Underlying Determinants," Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, Public Health Law Project Manager, Center for Health Policy, IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow, Columbia University

"From Donor-Driven to Impact-Driven: How Evidence Can Inform Smarter Individual Philanthropy," Carol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, Global Health, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania

"Translation Research on Diabetes Care Among Samoans," Stephen McGarvey, PhD, MPH, Professor of Community Health, Director, International Health Institute, Brown University

"The African Health Professions Brain Drain Survey and Policy Implications," Edward Mensah, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

"Access to Essential Medicines: Moving Beyond AIDS, TB and Malaria," Suerie Moon, PhD Candidate & Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

"Cost of Iron Deficiency: Cognitive and Behavioral Consequences for Women and Children," Laura Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

"War, Women, and Children," 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

"Women's Global Health and Human Rights," 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

"Towards a Framework for Culturally-Sensitive Psychosocial Interventions in the Population of Sudanese Displaced," Brian Neff, M.A.L.D., The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

"Empowerment: The Key To Transforming Communities - Guatemalan Experiences,"Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Heallth

"The International Efforts of The American Academy of Pediatrics," Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Heallth

"Neonatal Resuscitation Capabilities in Nepal," Christina Nelson, MD, Pediatrics & Preventive Medicine, University of Colorado

"Collaborative Initiative between Researchers and Community Representatives to Facilitate Community Understanding of Interim Analyses in an HIV Prevention Trial," Lisa Noguchi, CNM, MSN, Director of Operations, Microbicide Trials Network, MWRI/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

"Global Service as a Means to Restore America's Standing: Remaking Ourselves As We Remake Our World," Edward O'Neil, Jr, MD, Omni Med

"Project HEALTH: Mobilizing College Volunteers to Change Healthcare Delivery," Rebecca Onie, JD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTH

"The Pathophysiology of Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis and Macular Degeneration," Santa Ono, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Deputy Provost of Emory University; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory Eye Center

"The Community Can Help Itself: Using Mobile Phones to Revolutionize Healthcare Delivery," Yuri Ostrovsky, Chief Technology Officer, ClickDiagnostics, Inc.

"GHEC: Strength Through Consortia," Robin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

"Mission Driven," Robin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

"Eye Care America: Providing Eye Care Needs For America's Uninsured by MDs," David J. Palmer, MD, Chair, Eye Care America-Senior Eye Care Program, American Academy of Ophthalmology Foundation

"A Model for Cooperative Investment in the Developing World," Minesh Patel, MD, Resident Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine

"Pharmaceutical Interventions to Minimize Retinal Scarring," Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine

"A2Z – The USAID Micronutrient and Child Blindness Project: Fostering Innovative Approaches to Saving Sight," Roshelle Payes, Child Blindness Manager, A2Z Project, Academy for Educational Development

"Portable, Handheld Devices for Diagnosis of Taeniasis in The Field ," Raquel Perez-Castillejos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology

"An Innovative Hospital Management Training Program in Albania" Frank Phillips, Director, International Healthcare Program, Rush University Medical Center

"Partnering to Create a Center of Excellence for Children with Autism in West Africa: Successes and Challenges," Molly Ola Pinney, Founder and CEO, The Global Autism Project

"Malaria as an Obstacle to Economic Development: Fighting Malaria on the River of Life, the Value of Public Private Partnerships," Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation

"A Model for Sustainable Diabetic Eye Care in the Developing World," Sudeep Pramanik, MD, MBA

"Global Health, The Internet, and the Global Development Commons: What Does The Future Hold?" Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

"Balancing Community-Identified Needs with Responsible Interventions: Implementing a Gender-Based Violence Program into the Honduran Health Alliance," Bonzo Reddick, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

"Global Overview of Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS)," Susan Reef, MD, CDC

"Microfinance and Microfranchise to Improve Health," Myka Reinsch, Director of Innovations, Freedom From Hunger

"NCC and the L3C: State of the Art Cancer Care in Latin America," Thomas Roane, Senior Vice President - Healthcare Alliances, National Cancer Coalition

"The Epidemiology of Human Rights," Lee Roberts, PhD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

"Partnerships for Ensuring Quality Education for All," Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School For The Blind

Jennifer Ruger, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Global Health, Yale School of Public Health; Co-Director of the Yale/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and Research; Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Investigator, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

"Building Capacity and Improving Care: Key Lessons Learned Through the Kaiser Permanente--Community Clinic Partnership," Cody Fuedaflores, Manager, Community Benefit Programs, Kaiser Permanente

"The Use of Imagery:  How it Promotes and Hampens Global Health Advocacy?" Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker

"Vision Loss Prevention and Eye Health Promotion: A Public Health Approach," Jinan Saaddine, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Vision Health Initiative Team Leader, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

"Methods For Glaucoma Screening," Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis

"Community Eye Health Program Can Improve The Quality of Life of Poor: An Action Research Study from Orissa, India," Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India

"Private Finance Models That Support Public Health Efficiency," Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US Agency for International Development

"Communication Challenges in Mass Drug Administration in Tanzania: Thinking with Reciprocity," Ari Samsky, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University

"Taking Lifesaving Care Closer to Women and Their Families," Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University

"Establishing Community-Based Teams," Brooke Schaab, PhD, U.S. Army Research Institute

"Creating a University-wide Interdisciplinary Curriculum in Global Health," Daniel D. Sedmak, MD, Director, Office of Global Health Education; Executive Vice Dean, College of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Personalized Healthcare; Senior Associate Vice President, Office of Health Sciences, The Ohio State University

"This is Global Health: Temple University's International Education Opportunities Senegal," Shannon Marquez, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Temple University Center for Global Health

"Why We Must Have High Quality Surgical Care For All," Tamilarasan Senthil, MBBS, Consulting Ophthalmologist, Uma Eye Clinic, India

"A Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) Study Regarding Eye Care Among Parents in Delhi," Manish Sharma, MBBS, Consultant Pediatric Ophthalmologist, Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital ; Unite For Sight Partner

"The Future of Glaucoma Surgery: Hope For The Developing World?" Bruce Shields, MD, Chair Emeritus, Yale Department of Ophthalmology

Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine

"Why We Need Schools For Blind Girls," Ajit Sinha, MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, All India Ophthalmological Society

Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

"Success of Laproscopic Sterilisation in Controlling Population Growth in Eastern India: My Experience of 30 Years," Renu Sinha, MBBS, Former Head of the Obs and Gynea Department of Patna Medical College Hospital; Former President of Bihar Obs and Gynea Society

"The Impact of Patien Barriers to Eye Care," Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

"Addressing Health Consequences of Gender-Based Violence in Papua New Guinea," Marie Skinnider, MD, Health Advisor, MSF Canada

"Overcoming Barriers to Implementation of Evidence Based Practices To Reduce Maternal Mortality in a Rural Nicaraguan Community," Janice K. Smith, MD, MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health at UTMB

"Liberation Medicine in Education and Action Toward Global Health For All, Now!" Lanny Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Professor of Medicine in the Residency Programs of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Assistant Director, Human Rights Clinic for Victims of Torture, Montefiore; Founder and President, Doctors for Global Health

"Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer: An Epidemic Fueled by Global Indifference," Samuel So, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of Medicine

"Partnering to Achieve Greater Effectiveness in Preventing Blindness," Kathy Spahn, President and CEO, Helen Keller International

"Assessing and Improving Emergency Obstetric Care in Northern Nigeria," Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health,

"The Health-Peace Connection: Assessing the Need for Pre-deployment Training for Medical Volunteers and its Proposed Effect on Coexistence," Sarah Stanlick, MA, Research Associate, Harvard University

"The Epidemiology of Human Rights," Lindsay Stark, Research Associate, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

"The Disability Rights Approach to Development," Michael Stein, JD, PhD, Executive Director, Harvard Project on Disability; Cabell Research Professor of Law, College of William and Mary School of Law

"Do it Yourself Humanitarianism: Methods and Models," Chris Stout, PsyD, Founding Director, Center for Global Initiatives; Clinical Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Global Network For Health: A Novel Approach to Learning and Diagnostics," H. Dean Sutphin, PhD, Assistant Vice President for International Health and Appalachian Outreach, Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

"Innovation In Reproductive Health Programming," Maia Tavadze, CARE International in the Caucasus, Georgia

"An Innovative Approach to Addressing Global Health Disparities through a Global Health Leadership Training Program in Latin America," Dixie Tooke-Rawlins, D.O., Dean and Executive Vice President, Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

"Advances in Visual Function Assessment 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

"It Takes a Girl to Raise A Village: Rethinking Education in the Developing World," Philippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi

"Fueling Vehicles of Change With Star Power," Philippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi

"Global Health and Global Health Education - from Lexicon (Greek Λεξικόν) to Actions," Anvar Velji, MD, Co-Founder and Treasurer, Global Health Education Consortium; Chief of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento; Clinical Professor, University of California at Davis

“Health in Africa: Perspectives From The Only Ophthalmologist For 2 Million People in Northern Ghana," Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

“Couching: A “Worst Practice” That Battles Modern Surgical Care in Northern Ghana" Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner

"The Himalayan Cataract Project and Millennium Village Project Partnership," John Welling, MD Candidate,The Ohio State University College of Medicine

"IDP and Refugee Health in Darfur and Chad: Challenges and Innovations to Meeting Basic Needs," Dayan Woldemichael, MD, Chad Country Director, International Medical Corps

"Global Health Through Microfranchise & Other Social Innovations," Warner Woodworth, PhD, Professor of Organizational Leadership & Strategy, Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management

"Making the World Smaller: Teleconferencing Technologies in Medical Education,"Michael C. Wu, MD, Cornea and External Disease, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmlology, University of Washington School of Medicine

"Women's Health Rights as Human Rights: Implications and Challenges in the U.S. Context," Alicia Ely Yamin, JD, MPH, Joseph H. Flom Global Health and Human Rights Fellow, Harvard Law School

"Social Entrepreneurship - International Breast Milk Project," Jill Youse, Founder, International Breast Milk Project

"Global Health Inequalities: Why They Matter?" David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Debrework Zewdie, Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank Human Development Network World Bank

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Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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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.

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"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

Confirmed Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

"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

"Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems," Julia Devin, JD, MPH, Director of Programs, VillageReach

"Improving Public Health Delivery Through Social Entrepreneurship," 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

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Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health & Development Conference
April 18-19, 2009
"Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation"
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When: April 18-19, 2009
Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
What: Join 2,500 conference participants for a stimulating international conference
As Featured On CNN: The Unite For Sight Conference Is What CNN Calls "A Meeting of Minds"

NOW OPEN: Registration and Abstract Submission - Abstract deadline is September 15

200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Allan Rosenfield, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, and Dr. Harold Varmus.  Plus sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers, and many others.

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Confirmed Keynote Speakers

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

Allan Rosenfield, MD, DeLamar Professor of Public Health, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

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

Harold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize Recipient

Confirmed Featured Speakers

Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International Trachoma Initiative

Alastair Ager, PhD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Jared Ament, MD, MPH, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmology & Corneal Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health

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

Elizabeth Ashbourne, Results Secretariat, OPCS, World Bank

Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana

Richard Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Sheri Berenbach, MBA, Executive Director, Calvert Foundation

Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes

David Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

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

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)

Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration; director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health

Ronald Braswell, MD, MS, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama-Birmingham

Harry Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International

Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

Michael Chu, MBA, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Lisa Croucher, Assistant Director, Education and Training, Global Health Institute, Duke University

Emmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue Committee

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

Marva Eberhart, Teacher For Visually Impaired, Kansas City, Missouri School District; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana

Paul Epstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School

Dabney Evans, MPH, Executive Director, Emory University Institute of Human Rights; Lecturer, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University

Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers

Valda Ford, MPH, MS, RN, CEO and Founder, Center For Human Diversity

Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

Stanley O. Foster, MD, MPH, Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

James Fraser, MA, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dignitas International

Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, The Batey Relief Alliance

Gannon Gillespie, Director of US Operations, Tostan

Heskel Haddad, MD, Ophthalmologist; President, Optoed Corp, Inc.

Rebecca Hardin, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast

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

Steve Hilton, President, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Debbie Humphries, MPH, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, Yale University School of Medicine

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Kartee Karloweah, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Zachary Kaufman, JD Candidate, Yale Law School; DPhil Candidate in International Relations, Oxford University

Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health

Karen King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Reed Intermediate School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana

Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders

Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems

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

Robert Malkin, PhD, Professor of Practice of Biomedical Engineering Director, Duke-Engineering World Health, Duke University

Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children

John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

Michelle McMurry, Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative, The Aspen Institute

Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, Public Health Law Project Manager, Center for Health Policy, IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow, Columbia University

Carol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, Global Health, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania

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

Laura Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health

Neal Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Edward O'Neil, Jr, MD, Omni Med

Santa Ono, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Deputy Provost of Emory University; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory Eye Center

Robin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

David J. Palmer, MD, Chair, Seniors EyeCare Program, EyeCare America

Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine

Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation

Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

Susan Reef, MD, CDC

Lee Roberts, PhD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School For The Blind

Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker

Jinan Saaddine, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Vision Health Initiative Team Leader, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis

Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India

Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University

Daniel D. Sedmak, MD, Director, Office of Global Health Education; Executive Vice Dean, College of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Personalized Health care; Senior Associate Vice President, Office of Health Sciences, The Ohio State University

Tamilarasan Senthil, MBBS, Consulting Ophthalmologist, Uma Eye Clinic, India

Bruce Shields, MD, Chair Emeritus, Yale Department of Ophthalmology

Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Ajit Sinha, MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, All India Ophthalmological Society

Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

Renu Sinha, MBBS, Former Head of the Obs and Gynea Department of Patna Medical College Hospital; Former President of Bihar Obs and Gynea Society

Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

Janice K. Smith, MD, MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health at UTMB

Lanny Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Professor of Medicine in the Residency Programs of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Assistant Director, Human Rights Clinic for Victims of Torture, Montefiore; Founder and President, Doctors for Global Health

Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAID

Samuel So, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of Medicine

Lindsay Stark, Research Associate, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Chris Stout, PsyD, Founding Director, Center for Global Initiatives; Clinical Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

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

Philippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi

Anvar Velji, MD, Co-Founder and Treasurer, Global Health Education Consortium; Chief of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento; Clinical Professor, University of California at Davis

Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Tanya Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Dayan Woldemichael, MD, Chad Country Director, International Medical Corps

David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Debrework Zewdie, Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank Human Development Network World Bank

Please forward widely. Accepting applications for 2008 and 2009: Ghana, Honduras, and India.

Unite For Sight's High Impact Volunteer Abroad Opportunities: As Featured Weekly On CNN International and Recently in The New York Times

Volunteer Abroad in all, Winter, Spring, or Summer: http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

Ghana, Honduras, India

Volunteers Are Part Of Global Problem Solving And Have The Thrill Of Experiencing and Contributing To Change on the Highest Level. With The Assistance of Volunteers Like You, Unite For Sight Has Restored Sight To 15,958 Patients and Provided Eye Care to 600,000

How Do I Apply? The application as well as complete details about Unite For Sight's international opportunities are available at http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

Who Is Eligible To Volunteer Abroad?: Volunteers are 18 years and older, and there is no upper age limit. Volunteers range from undergraduate/college students to medical and optometry students, public health students and professionals, business students, filmmakers and photographers, nurses and nursing students, social workers, physician's assistants, teachers and educators, opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists.

Unite For Sight welcomes volunteers who may not have previous health or eye care experience. Volunteers receive all necessary training from Unite For Sight so that they are able to assist eye doctors with community eye outreach programs. Unite For Sight also welcomes volunteers to participate as photographers and filmmakers.

What Do Volunteers Do?:

*Hands-On Clinical Service: Assist eye doctors in rural villages, refugee camps, and slums in Ghana, India, and Honduras

*Community-Based Outreach Programs: Local eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers work together to provide eye care for patients living in extreme poverty

*Effective and Sustainable: Volunteers are immersed in effective, sustainable international health and development programs

*See Results: Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness.

*Entrepreneurial Volunteering: Volunteers are encouraged to be proactive and entrepreneurial to develop their own projects and programs that dovetail with Unite For Sight’s outreach programs

What Do Volunteers Say?: Hundreds of volunteer narratives, volunteer diaries, as well as videos of alumni volunteers and partner eye doctors, are available on the Unite For Sight website: http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

You may also be interested in the Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health Conference at Yale http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference Join 2,500 conference participants and more than 200 featured speakers for a weekend conference about global health, international development, social entrepreneurship, and public health. Keynote addresses by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, and Dr. Harold Varmus. Register today to secure the lowest rate.

Please forward widely. First abstract deadline is August 15.

Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health & Development Conference
"Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation"
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

When: April 18-19, 2009
Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
What: Join 2,500 conference participants for a stimulating international conference
As Featured On CNN: The Unite For Sight Conference Is What CNN Calls "A Meeting Of Minds"

NOW OPEN: Registration and Abstract Submission  http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference (First abstract deadline is August 15 (oral presentation deadline and early bird poster presentation deadline)

200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Sonia Sachs

Register For Conference: REGISTER BY JULY 31 TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. Rate escalates each month.

Who is eligible to submit an abstract?  Anyone may submit an abstract. Abstract submitters range from students to professionals.

Who should attend?   Anyone interested in international health, public health, international development, medicine, nonprofits, eye care, philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, economics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, environmental health, service-learning, medical education, and public service.

Keynote Addresses

• 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 Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages

200 Featured Speakers (Listed Below Are The Speakers Confirmed Thus Far)

Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International Trachoma Initiative

Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana

Richard Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes

David Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

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)

Ronald Braswell, MD, MS, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama-Birmingham

Harry Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International

Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Emmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue Committee

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

Dabney Evans, MPH, Executive Director, Emory University Institute of Human Rights; Lecturer, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University

Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

Stanley O. Foster, MD, MPH, Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

James Fraser, MA, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dignitas International

Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, The Batey Relief Alliance

Gannon Gillespie, Director of US Operations, Tostan

Susan Hayes, MD, President and CEO, Interplast

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

Samuel Ho, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of Medicine

Debbie Humphries, MPH, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, Yale University School of Medicine

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 Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health

Karen King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Reed Intermediate School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana

Laura Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders

Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems

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

Robert Malkin, PhD, Professor of Practice of Biomedical Engineering Director, Duke-Engineering World Health, Duke University

Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children

John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

Michelle McMurry, Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative, The Aspen Institute

Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, Public Health Law Project Manager, Center for Health Policy, IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow, Columbia University

Carol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, Global Health, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health

Neal Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Edward O'Neil, Jr, MD, Omni Med

Santa Ono, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Deputy Provost of Emory University; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory Eye Center

Robin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation

Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

Susan Reef, MD, CDC

Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School For The Blind

Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker

Jinan Saaddine, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Vision Health Initiative Team Leader, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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

Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis

Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India

Shlomit Sandler, MD, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University

Howard Schiffer, President and Founder, Vitamin Angels

Daniel D. Sedmak, MD, Director, Office of Global Health Education; Executive Vice Dean, College of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Personalized Health care; Senior Associate Vice President, Office of Health Sciences, The Ohio State University

Bruce Shields, MD, Chair Emeritus, Yale Department of Ophthalmology

Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Ajit Sinha, MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, All India Ophthalmological Society

Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

D. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital

Janice K. Smith, MD, MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health at UTMB

Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAID

Chris Stout, PsyD, Founding Director, Center for Global Initiatives; Clinical Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

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

Philippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi

Harold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize Recipient

Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Tanya Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City

David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Debrework Zewdie, Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank Human Development Network World Bank

Please forward widely. Currently accepting applications for 2008 and 2009.

Please forward widely. Currently accepting applications for 2008 and 2009.

Please forward widely. Currently accepting applications for 2008 and 2009.

Please forward widely.

Please forward widely.  The registration rate increases after January 31st.

Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health & Development Conference
Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow
April 12-13, 2008
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Register Today at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008

Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, and Dr. Allan Rosenfield
Plus More Than 180 Featured Speakers

Register For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ( $75 students, $100 all others) Register at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008 REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. RATE INCREASES AFTER JANUARY 31st

Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public health, international development, medicine, nonprofits, eye care, philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, economics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, environmental health, service-learning, medical education, and public service.

Keynote Addresses

• "Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century," Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General; Senior Advisor For Health and Medicine; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center
• "Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health," Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD,Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director at World Health Organization
• "Issues in Global Women's Health," Allan Rosenfield, MD, Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
• "Common Wealth: Economics For A Crowded Planet," 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 Village Project", Sonia Ehrlich Sachs,, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages

Plus 180+ Speakers. Full List and Conference Schedule at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/

Conference Schedule

Day 1: Saturday, April 12, 2008

08:30am-09:20am

Keynote Address by Dr. Susan Blumenthal

"Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century", 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

09:25am-10:15am

Keynote Address By Dr. Allan Rosenfield

"Issues in Global Women's Health", Allan Rosenfield, MD, Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

10:20am-11:10am

Keynote Address By Dr. Jim Yong Kim

"Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health", Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director at World Health Organization

11:15am-12:00pm

Plenary Panel - Building Capacity With Community Health Outreach Workers

Introduction:

• Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director, François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; François Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director at World Health Organization

Panelists:

• James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
• Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
• Eva Harris, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley; President, Sustainable Sciences Institute
• Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University

01:00pm-02:30pm: Concurrent Sessions

Infectious Disease, Prevention, and Community Strategies

"Clowns Without Borders Project Njabulo - Developing Local Capacity for Play and Emotional Relief for Children and Caregivers affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa", Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders
"Humanitarian Health and HIV/AIDS Crisis and Care Inside Dominican Republic's Migrant Sugar Cane Plantations Bateyes", Ulrick Gaillard, JD, Founder and Executive Director, The Batey Relief Alliance
"Using National and International Advocacy and Media to Advance Social Change in HIV-Prevention", Adeyemi Oshodi, PATH
"Cytokine Mimicry and Immune Evasion by Leishmania", Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine

The Environment and Global Health

"Scaling Up Provision of Safe Drinking Water in the Developing World", Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble
"Can Market-Based Approaches Arrest The Killer In The Kitchen? The Promises and Pitfalls of Commercializing Improved Cookstoves", Robert Bailis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
"Poisons in the Well: Exposure, Consequences and Remediation of Arsenic and Manganese in Bangladesh", Joe Graziano, PhD, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Pharmacology; Associate Dean for Research, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
"A Need to Incorporate Sound Waste Management Practices for Improving Environmental Performance, Public Health Safety and Delivery of Quality Healthcare by Clinical Laboratories in India - A Case Study", Reema Banerjee, MSc, PG Diploma in Hospital Management, Centre for Environment Education, India

Glaucoma

"Title To Be Announced", Kuldev Singh, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
"Title To Be Announced", Susan Day, MD, Chair and Program Director, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, California Pacific Medical Center
"Tackling The African Glaucoma Challenges: Experiences From The Bawku Eye Care Program", Michael Gyasi., MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana
"The Challenges of Glaucoma Care in West Africa", Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center

Perspectives on Nutrition and Malnutrition

"Addressing Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies is a Key Building Block to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals: A Summary of Progress and Prospects", M.G. Venkatesh Mannar, President, The Micronutrient Initiative
"Refocusing Malnutrition Interventions in Rural Haiti: A Strategic Evolution", Adeline Azrack, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, Hopital Albert Schweitzer
"Nutritional Management of Cataracts", Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New York Medical College
"Natural Therapies for Eye Health", Rob Abel, MD, Delaware Ophthalmology Consultants

Children's Health

"Orphan Life Abroad: How Children Live Without Parental Care", Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Medical Director, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
"Exclusive Breastfeeding in Ethiopia: Barriers, Beliefs and Behavioral Outcomes", Julia Dickinson, RN, Yale University School of Nursing
"Childhood Obesity Prevention in the Western Cape Region of South Africa", William D. Evans, PhD, Vice President, Research Triangle Institute
"Blind Leading The Blind", Philemon Yugi, MPH, Director for Health, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Humanitarian and Health Needs

"Children's Health is Global Wealth", Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health; NGO Representative of Medical Women International Assocaition to the United Nations
"Violence Against Disabled Children: A Global Concern", Nora Groce, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Yale/WHO Collaborating Centre, Global Health Division, Yale School of Public Health
"Title To Be Announced", Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, Kaiser Media Fellow; Visiting Scientist, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
"Examining the Prevalence and Detriments of Couching in Ghana: The First Documented Cataract Surgery Technique Continues in Northern Ghana", Seth Wanye., MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Eye Care and Vision2020

"Update on IAPB and VISION 2020: The Right to Sight", Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
"Trachoma & Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Way For The Future", Ibrahim Jabr, President, International Trachoma Initiative
"Two Years of Working With Unite For Sight Volunteers, Experiences", Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana
"Operation Miracle", 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)

Philosophies of Health Care

"Health Diplomacy", Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
"Measuring Impacts", Dean Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
"Philosophies of Care - Transforming Communities Through Empowerment", Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health
"Doctors..and Africa", Ted M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman and CEO, US Doctors For Africa

Global Health Training For Undergraduates, Medical Students, and Residents

"A Non-Traditional Approach to Global Health Training: The Penn Program", Neal Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Residency Based Fellowships in Global and Underserved Health - Who Are the Stakeholders?", Scott Loeliger, MD, MS, Faculty Physician, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
"The Role of Volunteers in Tamale: Providing Assistance To The Only Ophthalmologist Serving 2 Million People", Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
"Volunteering in Tamale, Ghana", Ruru Wang, BA Candidate, Mount Holyoke College; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
"Volunteering in Tamale, Ghana", Vanessa Hux, BS Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
"Volunteering in Tamale, Ghana", Sarah Isbey, BA Candidate, Dartmouth College; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana

Innovative Strategies to Improve Health in the Developing World

"Heart Disease as a Global Chronic Problem - A Challenge For The UN Millennium Initiative", Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute; Director, The Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascuclar Health; Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor, Mount Sinai; Past-President, American Heart Association; Past President, World Heart Federation
"Raising Malawi", Philippe van den Bossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi
"Global Grid Computing Initiative to Discover Dengue Antivirals", Stan Watowich, Associate Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch
"Keeping the Cost of Community Cataract Surgery as Low as Possible", Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

02:35pm-04:05pm: Concurrent Sessions

Humanitarian Emergencies

"Addressing Serious Mental Disorders in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies", Lynne Jones, MA, MBChB, MRCPysch PhD
"Disabilities Among Refugee and Conflict-Affected Populations--Nature and Scope of the Issue, Interventions and Approaches", Carolyn Makinson, PhD, Executive Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
"What Happens When Child Soldiers Grow-up? Mozambique Life Outcome Study", Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health; Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health
"Successful Strategies For Delivering Eye Care at a Refugee Camp", Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Examining Women's Health

"Women's Global Health and Human Rights", Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health
"Increasing Income, Confidence and Business Growth for Low-Income Women", Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International
"Infertility in Developing Countries: Scope, Psychosocial Burden and Need for Action", Anke Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH, UCSF Women's Global Health Imperative
"Understanding the Relationship between Women's Participation and Community Health in Uttar Pradesh, India", Jennifer Ruger, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Global Health, Yale School of Public Health; Co-Director of the Yale/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and Research; Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Investigator, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

HIV/AIDS Crisis and Care

"Is China's economic boom delivering public health along with prosperity? A close look at AIDS", Ken Legins, Chief, HIV/AIDS Programme, UNICEF Office for China, Beijing
"Promoting HIV/AIDS Education Despite Social and Cultural Barriers", Piya Sorcar, MA, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
"Male Circumcision for HIV Prevenion: Cutting Edge Opportunities in Global Health Collaborations", Inon Schenker, PhD, MPH, Senior HIV/AIDS Prevention Specialist; Director, International Department; Chair, Israeli Multi-Center Research Group on Male Circumcision; The Jerusalem AIDS Project
"A Sustainable Approach to Nutrition for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda", Emily Morell, BA Candidate, Yale University

Perspectives on Glaucoma and Retinal Diseases

"Glaucoma Neuroprotection 2008: New Therapies on the Horizon", 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
"Glaucoma Screening in Connecticut", Susan Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
"Pediatric Glaucoma", Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist
"Management of Age-Related Macular Degeneration", Ronald Adelman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Retina Service, Yale University School of Medicine

Atrocities, Refugees, and Vulnerable Persons: Perspectives on Entrepreneurship, Health Care, and Education

"Atrocities and Social Entrepreneurship", Zachary Kaufman, Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations, University of Oxford; DPhil (PhD) candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD candidate, Yale University Law School
"Transcending Trauma & Relentless Compassion: Indicators of Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) in Peer Support Counselors in Liberia - How They Help and What They Carry", Gwen Vogel, PsyD, Director of Field Operations, SalusWorld
"Educational Entrepreneurship: Linking Schools Continents Apart", Karen King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Reed Intermediate School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"HIV/AIDS, Orphans and other Vulnerable Children: The Crisis, Consequences, and Responses", Andrew Klaber, Founder, Orphans Against AIDS

Medical Care in the Developing World

"Filling the Gap: A Model For Surgical Capacity Building In Rural China", Scott Corlew, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast
"Surgical Care in Angola: Perspectives From Two Hospitals", Robert Riviello, MD, MPH, Associate Surgeon, Instructor in Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Key Components for the Development of an Emergency Healthcare System: The Ethiopian Experience", Tenagne Haile-Mariam, MD, Assistant Professor, The George Washington University Medical School
"Self Sustainability - The Mantra For Manging Avoidable Blindness", V. Panneer Selvam, MS, DO, MPhil, Arasan Eye Hospital, India

Eye Care in the Developing World

"Trachoma in Northern Ghana: Same Factors, Different Patterns", Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana
"Cataract Blindness in Developing Countries and SEE International", Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International
"Community Eye Care in India", Umang Mathur, MS, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Associate Director and Head of Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital, India
"Title To Be Announced", David Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and International Health, Johns Hopkins University
"Public Health Strategies for Effective Medical Missions Overseas", Derek Mladenovich, OD, FAAO, MPH Candidate, Fellow, World Council of Optometry; External Examiner, International Rescue Committee, Thailand

Volunteering Abroad

"Akwaaba! Volunteer Ophthalmology in Breman Asikuma, Ghana", Steven Hudson, MD, JD, MPA, Ophthalmologist, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Breman Asikuma, Ghana
"A Memorable Experience: Volunteering in Chennai, India", Abrahim Bagheri, BS Candidate, Loyola Marymount University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"Perspectives on Volunteering in Chennai, India", Chiwing Jessica Qu, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"Title To Be Announced", Anna Cooper, MPH, MD Candidate, University of Rochester School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Bihar, India
"From Cataract Camps to Quality Assurance: A month at Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital", Anthony Farah, MD Candidate, Jefferson Medical College; Unite For Sight Volunteer in New Delhi, India
"An Eye-Opener in India: Volunteering to Elminate Preventable Blindness", Hibah Ayaz, BA Candidate, Union College; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"Perspectives of a Medical Student on Volunteering in Chennai, India", Pradeep Mettu, MD Candidate, University of Kentucky School of Medicine
"Volunteering in Asikuma Breman, Ghana", Samantha Diamond, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana

Panel: University Partnerships and International Health

"Youth Engagement in Development Stategies: through the lens of Global Youth Service Day", Silvia Golombek, Senior Vice President, Youth Service America
"Introducing Students to Global Health", Sarabeth Gottlieb, CNM, MS, Lecturer, Yale University School of Nursing
"Break the Cycle of Disadvantage and Disability", Leslie Rubin, MD, Visiting Scholar, Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine; Founder and President, Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability; Co-Director, Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Emory University
"Collaborating to Create the Future of Family Medicine: A Japanese-American Exchange", Jennifer Vines, MD, MPH, Oregon Health and Science University
"International Educational Exchanges: Challenges and Opportunities", Barbara Allerton and Nancy Otterness, RN, MSN, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Boise State University
"International Nurse Education: Simulation Plays A Part in Global Standards of Practice", Ann Campbell, RN, MSN, CPNP, Old Dominion University/Operation Smile International
"Shoulder to Shoulder Ecuador: A University-Community Partnership for Health", Claudia Hopenhayn and Thomas Young, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky; Shoulder to Shoulder
"Towards an African Renaissance: Offering a Master's Degree to Nursing Students in Angola: a Distance Education Experience", Juanita Tjallinks, RN, MCur, in Health Studies, Midwife, Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa

Panel: Global Health and the Internet

"Global Health and the Internet: A Panel", Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications
"Global Health and the Internet: A Panel", Clark Freifeld, Healthmap.org
"Global Health and the Internet: A Panel", Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications
"Global Health and the Internet: A Panel", Patricia Abbott, RN, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and School of Nursing

04:10pm-05:00pm: Concurrent Sessions

Cultural Presentation: Kongo - The Ultimate Black Civilization

"Kongo: The Ultimate Black Civilization", Robert Farris Thompson, PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University

04:10pm-05:40pm: Concurrent Sessions

International Health By The People, For The People

"Science, Technology, and Innovation in Developing Countries: By The People, For The People", Eva Harris, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley; President, Sustainable Sciences Institute
"Unite For Sight To The Rescue: An Example Worth Emulating", James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
"Civil Society: Mobilizing Community Health Workers for Malaria Control", Anne Martin-Staple, PhD, Research Scholar, Duke University
"Satisfying Transportation Needs in Rural Africa With Sustainable Local Solutions: The Bamboo Bicycle", John Mutter, PhD, MSc, Deputy Director and Associate Vice Provost, The Earth Institute at Columbia; Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University; Professor, International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Bamboo Bike Project

A Call To Action To Improve Health

"Global Health Inequality: A Call to Understanding and Action", Edward ONeil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A Practical Guide to Global Health Service
"The Highest Attainable Standard: The Implications of an Evolving Human Right to Health for Public Health and Global Health Systems", Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil; IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow, Columbia University
"Engaging the Public: Improving Our Health", Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
"Health For All Now", Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH, Founder, President and CEO, MIDEGO

University Collaboration in Global Infectious Diseases Research

"Reduced Efficacy of Benzimidazole Anthelminthics in Kintampo, Ghana", Michael Cappello, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health; Director, Program in International Child Health; Co-Director, International Adoption Clinic, Yale University School of Medicine
"Preventing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Resource-limited Settings through Research Capacity Building", Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
"Tuberculosis and HIV Research at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital", Awewura Kwara, MD, Brown University
"Title To Be Announced", Michael Wilson, MD, Parasitology Unit, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Glaucoma and Cornea Transplants in the Developing World

"People, Places, and Genes: How World Populations Are Helping Us Find The Cause of Glaucoma.", R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center
"Tema Eye Survey", Donald Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
"Estimating The Impact of a Safe, Effective, and Easily-Inserted Drainage Device for the Treatment of Glaucoma in the Developed and Developing World", Roger Goldberg, MD, MBA Candidate, Yale University School of Medicine
"Keratoprosthesis in the Developing World", Jared Ament, MD, MPh, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmlology & Corneal Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health

Community Health Models

"The Honduras Slow Sand Filter Project", Vidush Philip Athyal, MD, MPH, Fellow/Clinical Instructor, University of Rochester Medical Center
"Delivering on the MDGs: Equity and Maternal Health", Emma Sachs, Health Equity Team, Earth Institute, Columbia University
"Lok Swasthya Sewa, a Model Health Cooperative in Ahmedabad, India", Chirag Shah, MD, Chief Resident, Wills Eye Hospital
"Health and Education at Grace Children's Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti", Jeannine Hatt, MD, Past-President, International Child Care USA; Board of Directors and Chair, International Child Care's Medical Resource Development Clinic

Orphans and Children

"Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Urban Slums of Africa", John Bryant, PhD, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
"A Pilot Therapeutic Feeding Program for Malnourished Orphans in Ukraine", Jonathan M. Spector, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center
"Advancing Educational Opportunities for Children who are Blind with Additional Impairments", Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School for the Blind
"Childhood Blindness And Its Prevention", Kartee Karloweah, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Unite For Sight-Ghana

Panel: Examining Strategies in Community Health

"Oral Health: Essential Element in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals", Habib Benzian, , MSc, Director Public Health & Development, FDI World Dental Federation, France
"Community Health Improvement in a Nomadic Village on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau", Nancy Chin, MPH, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester
"Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Improve Health and Social Services in Vietnam", Lan Gien, BSc, MEd, PhD, Professor of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland
"HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Assessment of Health Care Providers in Dominian Republic, India and others", Ellen Palmer, RN, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing
"Home Visit Project of Blind Babies Foundation and Perspektiva of the Volga Region in Russia", Julie Bernas-Pierce, MEd, Executive Director, Blind Babies Foundation
"Implementation of a Comprehensive Community-Based Tuberculosis Control Program in Eastern Burma's Chronic Conflict Zone", Allison Richard, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Associate Director of the Division of International Medicine, University of Southern California and Global Health Access Program
"Increasing Access to and Use of Skilled Maternal and Newborn Care in Dumka District of India", Juliet MacDowell, MA, Senior Program Manager, JHPIEGO
"Protecting Border Security and Health: Effective Strategies for Monitoring and Treating Malaria among Burma's IDPs", Emily Whichard, Program Director, Global Health Access Program

Health Care in Latin America

"A Binational Stanford - Mexico Health Advocacy Program - Partners to Address Immigrant Health", Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine
"An Extremely Affordable Device To Improve Asthma Care", Eric Green, PhD, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Ethical Dilemmas in International Medicine: Cases from the Honduran Health Alliance", Bonzo Reddick, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Utilization of PDA's by Community Health Workers for Field Collection of Malaria Statistics in Rural Haiti", Nick Mann, BA Candidate, Truman State University

College and Medical Student Perspectives on Volunteering Abroad

"Bihar Summer Volunteer: Perspiration, Inspiration and Mangoes", Kristin Ow Chapman, MD Candidate, NYU School of Medicine
"Volunteering in Accra, Ghana", Brian Lich, BA Candidate, Southern Methodist University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"The Roads of Ghana", Daniel Vekhter, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Asikuma Breman, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Hafeezah Omar, BA Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"Journeying through India with a New Set of Eyes", Rosh and Roshan Sethi, BS Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteers in New Delhi, India
"Tamale, Ghana", Shakira Sanchez-Collins, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
"Four women, three men, two cows, and a truck: Tales from Chennai, India", Shawn Lin, BS, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"New Vision in Ghana: Volunteering in Accra", Stephen Furlow, MD Candidate, University of Kentucky School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana

Strategies To Provide Health Care To Populations: Africa and Asia

"Effective approaches to enhance coverage of vitamin A supplementation in Sub-Saharan Africa", Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition, UNICEF
"Trends in Trichiasis Surgery and Antibiotics Mass Treatment in Trachoma Control in 10 African and Asian Countries in 2004-2006", Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International Trachoma Initiative
"Combating The Obosogenic Environment: An Overview of the Scope of the Issue on a Global Basis", Tanya Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing
"Volunteering in Chennai, India", Ravin Bastiampillai, BSc Student, University of Alberta

05:00pm-05:40pm: Concurrent Sessions

Retinal Lesions and Indirect Ophthalmoscopy

"The Healing of Retinal Photocoagulation Lesions", Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Instruction Course With Live Hands-On Using Indirect Ophthalmoscope For Optometrists To Help Diagnose Retinal Diseases at the Community Level", Pooja Sinha., MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

Day 2: Sunday, April 13, 2008

08:45am-09:35am

Keynote Address By Dr. Jeffrey Sachs

"Common Wealth: Economics For A Crowded Planet", 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

09:40am-10:30am

Millennium Village Project

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

10:30am-11:10am

Plenary Panel - The Need For A Global Coalition of Good

Introduction:

• 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

Panelists:

• Ted M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman and CEO, US Doctors For Africa
• Edward ONeil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A Practical Guide to Global Health Service
• Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

11:15am-11:55am: Concurrent Sessions

Plenary Panel - Brain Drain: The Health, Development, and Economic Effects on African Countries

Introduction:

• 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 Villages

Panelists:

• Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana
• James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
• Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana
• Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

The Four Heartbeats of Social Entrepreneurship

"The Four Heartbeats of Social Entrepreneurship", Jeffrey Robinson, PhD, Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

01:00pm-02:30pm: Concurrent Sessions

Innovative Global Health Solutions

"Bridging the gap between knowing the right thing to do and doing it right", Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University
"Innovative Approaches to Public Private Partnerships in Kenya's Health and Youth Sectors", Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAID
"Innovative Market Based Solutions in Global Health", Omer Imtiazuddin, MBA, Health Portfolio Manager, Acumen Fund
"Public Private Partnerships in Action: ExxonMobil's approach to making a difference on malaria's human toll in Africa", Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation

Perspectives on Eye Care and Outreach

"Managing Technology to Advance Eye Care", Ismael Cordero, Advisor, Healthcare Technology, Orbis
"Maximizing Limited Resources to Provide Outreach Eye Care", Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care, Pennsylvania College of Optometry
"Ophthalmology in the Holy Land: The Eye Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem", Steve Hudson, MD, JD, MPA, Ophthalmologist, Member of the Order of St. John (M.St..J), Unite For Sight Volunteer
"Training Community Eye Workers in Ghana and Liberia: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International Health Care and Programs, Mercy Ships, Int'l

Obstetric Fistula: Film-Based Campaigning

"Obstetric and Traumatic Fistula: Film-based Campaigning for Global Women's Health", Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker

02:35pm-04:05pm: Concurrent Sessions

HIV/AIDS

"The Bad Road to Good Health: The Clinton Foundation's Initiative to Build Healthcare Capacity in Rural Areas", Andy Ellner, MD, Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative
"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the Developing World", Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and of Molecular Pharmacology (Active Emeritus), Stanford University School of Medicine
"The End of AIDS - IAVI and the Search for a Vaccine to Prevent HIV", John McGoldrick, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
"Clinical Mentoring Rapidly Improves Clinic Management Systems for HIV Care in Resource-Limited Settings", Katherine Graves-Abe, MIA, Director of Operations, International Center For Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA)

Ophthalmology: Pediatrics, Glaucoma, Retina, and Cataracts

"Advantages of Using an Economical Anti-VEGF For Treating Retinal Diseases in India", Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
"Is That Angle Occludable?", Syril K. Dorairaj, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, Glaucoma Associates of New York, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
"The Use of Multifocal and Accomdative Intraocular Lenses in Cataract Surgery", Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
"Homocysteine and Eye Disease", Nathan Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
"Epidemiology of Exfoliation Syndrome", Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear Institute

Quality and Equality

"Civil Society Advocacy For The Right To Health", Leonard Rubenstein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights
"Corporate/Professional initiatives: Co-operation to Address Unmet Medical Needs", Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems
"Doing it The Quality Way Because It Is In Equality", P. Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
"The Global Marketization of Health Services: Promoting Inequity, Inequality and Exclusion", Ellen Rosskam, PhD, MPH, Public Health & Social Protection Specialist; Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Work Environment Department; Visiting Senior Fellow, University of Surrey, European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, England

04:10pm-05:00pm: Concurrent Sessions

Medical Education in the Developing World

"Creation of a Medical School in Botswana", Major Bradshaw, MD, Founding Dean, University of Botswana School of Medicine
"Undergraduate Medical Education in the University of Ghana Medical School: A Student's Perspective", Tshepo Joshua Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of Ghana Medical School

04:10pm-05:40pm: Concurrent Sessions

Neglected Tropical Diseases

"Empowering Communities in the Fight to Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases", Kari Stoever, Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute
"Tackling The Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs): The Role of PLoS NTDs in Building Capacity", Gavin Yamey, MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Consulting Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
"Trachoma Control; Challenges for 2020", Thomas Quinn, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
"The Slaying of Dragons: Guinea Worm Eradication", Michele Barry, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Global Health Director, Office of International Health; Chief, General Medicine Firm, Yale University School of Medicine

Strategies To Eliminate Preventable Blindness

"Addressing the Need for Reduction of Uncorrected Refractive Error in Persons With intellectual Disability through Participate in Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes Vision Program.", Sandy Block, OD, Illinois College of Optometry
"Eliminating the Needless Loss of Sight That Occurs During Sports", Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
"Challenges of Building a Charitable Eye Hospital in India", Satyajit Sinha., MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
"Low cost Comprehensive Eye care models and Its replicability", Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India

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Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health Conference
Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow
April 12-13, 2008
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008

Join 2,000 conference attendees and 150 speakers for a stimulating conference.

Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim
Plus More Than 150 Featured Speakers

Register For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ( $65 students, $90 all others) http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008 REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. RATE INCREASES AFTER NOVEMBER 30TH.

Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public health, international development, medicine, eye care, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, environmental health, and public service.

Keynote Addresses

· "Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century," Susan Blumenthal, MD,MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General; Senior Advisor For Health and Medicine; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center
·  "Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health," Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD,Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director at World Health Organization
·  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 Village Project", Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages

Plus 150+ Speakers. Full List at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008

"Doctors..and Africa", Ted M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman and CEO, US Doctors For Africa
"Scaling Up Provision of Safe Drinking Water in the Developing World", Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble
"People, Places, and Genes: How world populations are helping us find the cause of glaucoma.", R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center
"Keratoprosthesis in the Developing World", Jared Ament, MD, MPh, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmlology & Corneal Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health
"Orphan Life Abroad: How children live without parental care", Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Medical Director, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
"Title To Be Announced", Hibah Ayaz, BA Candidate, Union College; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"Refocusing Malnutrition Interventions in Rural Haiti: A Strategic Evolution", Adeline Azrack, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, Hopital Albert Schweitzer
"Title To Be Announced", Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Abrahim Bagheri, BS Candidate, Loyola Marymount University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"Can Market-Based Approaches Arrest The Killer In The Kitchen? The Promises and Pitfalls of Commercializing Improved Cookstoves", Robert Bailis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
"A need to incorporate sound waste management practices for improving Environmental performance, Public health safety and Delivery of quality-healthcare by Clinical Laboratories in India - A case study", Reema Banerjee, MSc, PG Diploma in Hospital Management, Centre for Environment Education, India
"The Slaying of Dragons: Guinea Worm Eradication", Michele Barry, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Global Health Director, Office of International Health; Chief, General Medicine Firm, Yale University School of Medicine
"Engaging the Public: Improving Our Health", Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association
"Health For All Now", Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH, Founder, President and CEO, MIDEGO
"Doing it The Quality Way Because It Is In Equality", P. Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
"Eliminating the Needless Loss of Sight That Occurs During Sports", Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
"Home Visit Project of Blind Babies Foundation and Perspektiva of the Volga Region in Russia", Julie Bernas-Pierce, MEd, Executive Director, Blind Babies Foundation
"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the Developing World", Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and of Molecular Pharmacology (Active Emeritus), Stanford University School of Medicine
"Addressing the Need for Reduction of Uncorrected Refractive Error in Persons With intellectual Disability through Participate in Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes Vision Program.", Sandy Block, OD, Illinois College of Optometry
"What Happens When Child Soldiers Grow-up? Mozambique Life Outcome Study", Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health; Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health
"Raising Malawi", Philippe van den Bossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi
"Operation Miracle", 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)
"Cataract Blindness in Developing Countries and SEE International", Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International
"Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Urban Slums of Africa", John Bryant, PhD, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
"Tema Eye Survey", Donald Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
"International Nurse Education: Simulation Plays A Part in Global Standards of Practice", Ann Campbell, RN, MSN, CPNP, Old Dominion University/Operation Smile International
"Title To Be Announced", Michael Cappello, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health; Director, Program in International Child Health; Co-Director, International Adoption Clinic, Yale University School of Medicine
"Community Health Improvement in a Nomadic Village on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau", Nancy Chin, MPH, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester
"Unite For Sight To The Rescue: An Example Worth Emulating", James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Anna Cooper, MPH, MD Candidate, University of Rochester School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Bihar, India
"Managing Technology to Advance Eye Care", Ismael Cordero, Advisor, Healthcare Technology, Orbis
"Filling the Gap: A Model For Surgical Capacity Building In Rural China", Scott Corlew, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast
"Title To Be Announced", Susan Day, MD, Chair and Program Director, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, California Pacific Medical Center
"Title To Be Announced", Samantha Diamond, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
"Exclusive Breastfeeding in Ethiopia: Barriers, Beliefs and Behavioral Outcomes", Julia Dickinson, RN, Yale University School of Nursing
"Unite For Sight Visiting Volunteers Participation in Eye Screening Outreach Program, Accra, Ghana", Robert Dolo, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Unite For Sight-Ghana
"Is That Angle Occludable?", Syril K. Dorairaj, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, Glaucoma Associates of New York, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Title To Be Announced", Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
"The Bad Road to Good Health: The Clinton Foundation's Initiative to Build Healthcare Capacity in Rural Areas", Andy Ellner, MD, Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative
"Childhood obesity prevention in the Western Cape region of South Africa", William D. Evans, PhD, Vice President, Research Triangle Institute
"Title To Be Announced", Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, Kaiser Media Fellow; Visiting Scientist, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
"Glaucoma Scrreinng in Connecticut", Susan Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
"Title To Be Announced", David Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and International Health, Johns Hopkins University
"Title To Be Announced", Stephen Furlow, MD Candidate, University of Kentucky School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute; Director, The Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascuclar Health; Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor, Mount Sinai; Past-President, American Heart Association; President-elect, World Heart Federation
"Humanitarian Health and HIV/AIDS Crisis and Care inside Dominican Republic's migrant sugar cane plantations Bateyes.", Ulrick Gaillard, JD, Founder and Executive Director, The Batey Relief Alliance
"A Binational Stanford - Mexico Health Advocacy Program - Partners to Address Immigrant Health", Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Developing Strategies with Vietnamese Ethnic Rural Communities to Improve Health", Lan Gien, BSc, MEd, PhD, Professor of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland
"Estimating The Impact of a Safe, Effective, and Easily-Inserted Drainage Device for the Treatment of Glaucoma in the Developed and Developing World", Roger Goldberg, MD, MBA Candidate, Yale University School of Medicine
"Youth Engagement in Development Stategies: through the lens of Global Youth Service Day", Silvia Golombek, Senior Vice President, Youth Service America
"Introducing Students to Global Health", Sarabeth Gottlieb, CNM, MS, Lecturer, Yale University School of Nursing
"Clinical Mentoring Rapidly Improves Clinic Management Systems for HIV Care in Resource-Limited Settings", Katherine Graves-Abe, MA, Director of Operations, International Center For Equal Healthcare Access (ICEHA)
"Poisons in the Well: Exposure, Consequences and Remediation of Arsenic and Manganese in Bangladesh", Joe Graziano, PhD, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Pharmacology; Associate Dean for Research, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
"An Extremely Affordable Device To Enable Treatment of Asthma in Rural Mexico", Eric Green, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Title To Be Announced", Nora Groce, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Yale/WHO Collaborating Centre, Global Health Division, Yale School of Public Health
"Title To Be Announced", Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana
"Nutritional Management of Cataracts", Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New York Medical College
"Key Components for the Development of an Emergency Healthcare System: The Ethiopian Experience", Tenagne Haile-Mariam, MD, Assistant Professor, The George Washington University Medical School
"Science, Technology, and Innovation in Developing Countries: By the People, for the People", Eva Harris, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley; President, Sustainable Sciences Institute
"Health and Education at Grace Children's Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti", Jeannine Hatt, MD, Past-President, International Child Care USA; Board of Directors and Chair, International Child Care's Medical Resource Development Clinic
"Infertility in Developing Countries: Scope, Psychosocial Burden and Need for Action", Anke Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH, UCSF Women's Global Health Imperative
"The Challenges of Glaucoma Care in West Africa", Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center
"Ophthalmology in the Holy Land: The Eye Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem", Steve Hudson, MD, JD, MPA, Ophthalmologist, Member of the Order of St. John (M.St..J), Unite For Sight Volunteer
"Akwaaba! Volunteer Ophthalmology in Breman Asikuma, Ghana", Steven Hudson, MD, JD, MPA, Ophthalmologist, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Breman Asikuma, Ghana
"Innovative Market Based Solutions in Global Health", Omer Imtiazuddin, MBA, Health Portfolio Manager, Acumen Fund
"Title To Be Announced", Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President, International Trachoma Initiative
"Title To Be Announced", Evaleen Jones, MD, Founder, President and Medical Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Addressing Serious Mental Disorders in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies", Lynne Jones, MA, MBChB, MRCPysch PhD
"Measuring Impacts", Dean Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
"Childhood Blindness And Its Prevention", Kartee Karloweah, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Unite For Sight-Ghana
"Atrocities and Social Entrepreneurship", Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations; DPhil Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD Candidate, Yale University Law School
"Health Diplomacy", Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
"Title To Be Announced", Karen King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Reed Intermediate School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"Corporate/Professional initiatives: Co-operation to Address Unmet Medical Needs", Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems
"Title To Be Announced", Brian Lich, BA Candidate, Southern Methodist University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Shawn Lin, BS, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"Residency Based Fellowships in Global and Underserved Health - Who Are the Stakeholders?", Scott Loeliger, MD, MS, Faculty Physician, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
"Increasing Access to and Use of Skilled Maternal and Newborn Care in Dumka District of India", Juliet MacDowell, MA, Senior Program Manager, JHPIEGO
"Increasing Income, Confidence and Business Growth for Low-Income Women", Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International
"Disabilities among refugee and conflict-affected populations--nature and scope of the issue, interventions and approaches", Carolyn Makinson, PhD, Executive Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
"Utilization of PDA's by Community Health Workers for Field Collection of Malaria Statistics in Rural Haiti", Nick Mann, BA Candidate, Truman State University
"Addressing Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies is a Key Building Block to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals", M.G. Venkatesh Mannar, President, The Micronutrient Initiative
"Civil Society: Mobilizing Community Health Workers for Malaria Control", Anne Martin-Staple, PhD, Research Scholar, Duke University
"Community Eye Care in India", Umang Mathur, MS, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Associate Director and Head of Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital, India
"Medical Education in Ghana", Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of Ghana School of Medicine
"The End of AIDS - IAVI and the Search for a Vaccine to Prevent HIV", John McGoldrick, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
"The Highest Attainable Standard: The Implications of an Evolving Human Right to Health for Public Health and Global Health Systems", Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil; PhD Candidate, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University; IGERT-International Development and Globalization Fellow
"Title To Be Announced", Christine Melton, MD, MS, Friends of Aravind Association
"Public Health Strategies for Effective Medical Missions Overseas", Derek Mladenovich, OD, FAAO, MPH Candidate, Fellow, World Council of Optometry; External Examiner, International Rescue Committee, Thailand
"A Sustainable Approach to Nutrition for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda", Emily Morell, BA Candidate, Yale University
"Title To Be Announced", Anne Firth Murray, Founding President, The Global Fund for Women; Consulting Professor, Human Biology Program, Stanford University
"Women's Global Health and Human Rights", Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health
"Title To Be Announced", Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health; NGO Representative of Medical Women International Assocaition to the United Nations
"Satisfying Transportation Needs in Rural Africa With Sustainable Local Solutions: The Bamboo Bicycle", John Mutter, PhD, MSc, Deputy Director and Associate Vice Provost, The Earth Institute at Columbia; Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University; Professor, International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Bamboo Bike Project
"A Non-Traditional Approach to Global Health Training: The Penn Program", Neal Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Expanding HIV and AIDS counseling skills in Africa: Cascade approach", Mike Negerie, DrPH, MPH, Regional Technical Manager for Health, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Africa Regional Office, South Africa
"Philosophies of Care - Transforming Communities through Transformation", Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health
"Global Health Inequality: A Call to Understanding and Action", Edward ONeil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A Practical Guide to Global Health Service
"Title To Be Announced", Hafeezah Omar, BA Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"Using National and International Advocacy and Media to Advance Social Change in HIV-Prevention", Adeyemi Oshodi, PATH
"International Educational Exchanges: Challenges and Opportunities", Barbara Allerton and Nancy Otterness, RN, MSN, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Boise State University
"Title To Be Announced", Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
"Developing an Institutional Review Board For International Non-Governmental Organizations in International Healthcare", Ellen Palmer, RN, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing
"Title To Be Announced", Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
"The Healing of Retinal Photocoagulation Lesions", Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Public Private Partnerships in Action: ExxonMobil's approach to making a difference on malaria's human toll in Africa", Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation
"Update on IAPB and VISION 2020: the Right to Sight", Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
"Blind Leading The Blind", Martine Polycarpe, MPH, Director for Health, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
"Title To Be Announced", Chiwing Jessica Qu, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"Trachoma Control; Challenges for 2020", Thomas Quinn, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
"Title To Be Announced", Nathan Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
"Ethical Dilemmas in International Medicine: Cases from the Honduran Health Alliance", Bonzo Reddick, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Implementation of a Comprehensive Community-Based Tuberculosis Control Program in Eastern Burma's Chronic Conflict Zone", Allison Richard, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Associate Director of the Division of International Medicine, University of Southern California and Global Health Access Program
"Surgical Care in Angola: Perspectives From Two Hospitals", Robert Riviello, MD, MPH, Associate Surgeon, Instructor in Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"The Global Marketization of Health Services: Promoting Inequity, Inequality and Exclusion", Ellen Rosskam, PhD, MPH, Public Health & Social Protection Specialist; Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Work Environment Department; Visiting Senior Fellow, University of Surrey, European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, England
"Advancing Educational Opportunities for Children who are Blind with Additional Impairments", Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School for the Blind
"Title To Be Announced", Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear Institute
"Civil Society Advocacy For The Right To Health", Leonard Rubenstein, Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights
"Break the Cycle of Disadvantage and Disability", Leslie Rubin, MD, Visiting Scholar, Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine; Founder and President, Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability; Co-Director, Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Emory University
"Title To Be Announced", Jennifer Ruger, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Global Health, Yale School of Public Health; Co-Director of the Yale/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and Research; Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Investigator, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
"Obstetric and Traumatic Fistula: Film-based Campaigning for Global Women's Health", Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
"Delivering on the MDGs: Equity and Maternal Health", Emma Sachs, Health Equity Team, Earth Institute, Columbia University
"Title To Be Announced", Majid Sadigh
"Title To Be Announced", Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist
"Low cost Comprehensive Eye care models and Its replicability", Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India
"Innovative Approaches to Public Private Partnerships in Kenya's Health and Youth Sectors", Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAID
"Title To Be Announced", Shakira Sanchez-Collins, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
"Bridging the gap between knowing the right thing to do and doing it right", Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University
"Title To Be Announced", Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition, UNICEF
"Self Sustainability - The Mantra For Manging Avoidable Blindness", V. Panneer Selvam, MS, DO, MPhil, Arasan Eye Hospital, India
"Title To Be Announced", Rosh and Roshan Sethi, BS Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteers in New Delhi, India
"Lok Swasthya Sewa, a Model Health Cooperative in Ahmedabad, India", Chirag Shah, MD, Chief Resident, Wills Eye Hospital
"Title To Be Announced", Kuldev Singh, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
"Title To Be Announced", Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
"Title To Be Announced", Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
"Title To Be Announced", D. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital
"Promoting HIV/AIDS Education Despite Social and Cultural Barriers", Piya Sorcar, MA, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
"A Pilot Therapeutic Feeding Program for Malnourished Orphans in Ukraine", Jonathan M. Spector, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center
"Empowering Communities in the Fight to Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases", Kari Stoever, Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute
"Training community eye workers in Ghana and Liberia: the good, the bad, and the ugly", Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International Health Care and Programs, Mercy Ships, Int'l
"Kongo: The Ultimate Black Civilization", Robert Farris Thompson, PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University
"Title To Be Announced", Jamie Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns Without Borders
"Towards an African Renaissance: Offering a Master's Degree to Nursing Students in Angola: a Distance Education Experience", Juanita Tjallinks, RN, MCur, in Health Studies, Midwife, Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa
"Glaucoma Neuroprotection 2008: New Therapies on the Horizon", 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
"Title To Be Announced", Daniel Vekhter, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Asikuma Breman, Ghana
"Maximizing Limited Resources to Provide Outreach Eye Care", Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care, Pennsylvania College of Optometry
"Collaborating to create the future of family medicine: a Japanese-American exchange", Jennifer Vines, MD, MPH, Oregon Health and Science University
"Transcending Trauma & Relentless Compassion: Indicators of Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) in Peer Support Counselors in Liberia - How They Help and What They Carry", Gwen Vogel, PsyD, Director of Field Operations, SalusWorld
"Title To Be Announced", Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
"Turning Challenges Into Opportunities: The State of Cervical Cancer Prevention in America 2008", Sarah Wells, MA, Associate Director, Women in Government
"Protecting Border Security and Health: Effective Strategies for Monitoring and Treating Malaria among Burma's IDPs", Emily Whichard, Program Director, Global Health Access Program
"Tackling the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs): the role of PLoS NTDs in building capacity", Gavin Yamey, MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Consulting Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
"Shoulder to Shoulder Ecuador: A University-Community Partnership for Health", Claudia Hopenhayn and Thomas Young, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky; Shoulder to Shoulder