I am writing on behalf of Telecentre Magazine - The first bi-monthly print magazine on telecentres, which will be published by CSDMS in collaboration with telecentre.org (an IDRC, SDC, and Microsoft initiative). It will provide an extensive coverage on the latest telecentre news happenings around India, Asia and the World, in addition to featured articles, interviews, project reports (including research documentation), case studies, grassroots voices, status reports, events, analysis etc.The magazine will raise awareness about telecentres, and will serve as a platform for advocacy and the development of a stronger telecentre ecosystem. It will also act as a repository of knowledge with various success stories, failures and lessons learnt from the field. Ultimately, this will help in sustainability and upscaling of telecentres around the globe.
The magazine, with its coverage of the full spectrum of telecentres, will reach the ICT4D decision makers, telecentre network managers, civil society organisations, technology and service providers, government departments, development organisations, research and academic institutions, and opinion makers in the society.
The first issue of the magazine will be launched at the GK3 event, Kulala Lumpur, Malaysia. In this regard, we would like to request you to write a paper on any of the follwoing topic with valuable insights, and in-depth comparative anaysis with rest of the globe. The broad areas of the topics may include: telecentre movements, key trends, technology solutions, various telecentre models, sustaiability, socio-economic impacts, importance of content, services, key challenges etc. Attached please find the editorial guidelines for your reference.
Kindly send your article on or before 5th November, 2007.
Looking forward to your constant support and valuable comments/suggestions.
"Second Announcement: Call for Papers - National Policy on ICT in Education"- Reply by Nov 5, 2007
Thanks to all those who have responded to our first call for papers with their inputs, suggestions, papers and references regarding the proposal National Policy on ICT in Education. We are pleased to announce that we are continuing to receive your inputs.
Format Due References and Published studies - either in Document format (odt or doc), and pdf acceptable
NATIONAL POLICY ON ICT IN EDUCATION
CALL FOR SUGGESTIONS/ RECOMMENDATIONS / POSITION PAPERS
The Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India is currently developing a National Policy on ICT in Education. Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) and Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) will provide strategic support in this process. This process consists of drafting policy objectives, guidelines, practices and knowledge tools to support the implementation of the policy across all states and union territories of India.
This critical task would be approached by ensuring an active stakeholder participation at all levels of formulation and implementation. A national consultative and collaborative process, to understand the needs, challenges, and issues of the states and union territories, is indispensable for formulating an inclusive and holistic policy. This will ensure that the policy represents the views and aspirations of various stakeholders, acts as a guiding document for the States to adapt it according to their local requirements, and meets the Education Goals of the country.
The Department of Education, MHRD invites you to submit your recommendations/ suggestions/ position papers, to assist the Ministry to formulate a National Policy on ICT in Education.
Through this call for recommendations/ suggestions/ position papers, we solicit inputs from leaders and visionaries in international agencies, industry, academia, NGOs and government to identify the needs, gaps, challenges, and issues of ICTs in Education sector in India and to contribute to the goal of defining a road map for building a National Policy on ICT in Education.
Submission of position papers
Position papers/ inputs are solicited on the following aspects of developing the policy framework for ICT in school education.
1. Articulate a progressive vision, objectives, guidelines and promising directions for building the ICT in Education Policy Framework
2. Identify challenges that must be addressed in the forthcoming Policy Document
3. Propose innovative approaches and solutions for building a forward-looking road map/master plan for ICT in Education
Format and Deadlines
1. Last date of submission November 5, 2007.
2. Submissions can be made either by mail or in type written formats .Please limit your contributions to no more than 2000 words
3. Provide brief bio and contact details of the contributing members of the suggestions / position paper.
4. You may choose to respond to one, two or all of the topics of the framework of the policy outlined above.
5. Submissions may be made by email to: rachita@...
Print submissions may be sent to: Rachita Jha, Research Associate, CSDMS, G-4 Sector 39, NOIDA 201301. Tel: +91-120-2502180-85
HIV/AIDS needs to be seen and be driven by multi-sector approach as it is today the greatest challenge of young people, especially in Africa. At this time, we have to face the HIV/AIDS pandemic in our environment and we need to gather a renewed commitment and zeal for a more concerted action against HIV/AIDS in Africa.
We are at the crossroads and at a decisive moment in the fight against HIV/AIDS and as an individual and a young person in particular, I am concerned about the overall status of young people on the disease and would not overemphasize the impact and role of young people in fighting HIV/AIDS.
We have to some of our success stories and some bad moments. Now, we must have to focus more on best practices, strategies and get policies and programmes for our various communities and together reflect our views and concerns to work for us and the people and at least engage decision-makers at the highest level of political leadership to
fighting this our inevitable challenge recognizing as well as realizing the fact that no president, no king, no emperor can change this… except the people, powered by young people because it’s about young people’s lives for today and tomorrow!
Henry Ekwuruke Executive Director, Development Generation Africa International Regional Correspondent - Africa News Network HIV/AIDS and Agriculture Working Group Member - Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa (PCHPA) Member - YES Country Network - Nigeria P.O.Box 2582, Umuahia - Abia State - Nigeria Mobile: +234-802-524-9923 Home Page: http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/ekwuruke
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hi henry, hi all
there is a HIV & AIDS community you might like to join to talk about
this.
http://projects.takingitglobal.org/YP-HIV-AIDS
Join the YP HIV & AIDS companion email group as well by going to
http://groups.takingitglobal.org/YP-HIV-AIDS or sending an e-mail to
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cameron
On 16 Nov 2007 at 9:23, Henry Ekwuruke wrote:
> HIV/AIDS needs to be seen and be driven by multi-sector approach as it
> is today the greatest challenge of young people, especially in Africa.
> At this time, we have to face the HIV/AIDS pandemic in our environment
> and we need to gather a renewed commitment and zeal for a more
> concerted action against HIV/AIDS in Africa.
>
> We are at the crossroads and at a decisive moment in the fight against
> HIV/AIDS and as an individual and a young person in particular, I am
> concerned about the overall status of young people on the disease and
> would not overemphasize the impact and role of young people in
> fighting HIV/AIDS.
>
> We have to some of our success stories and some bad moments. Now, we
> must have to focus more on best practices, strategies and get policies
> and programmes for our various communities and together reflect our
> views and concerns to work for us and the people and at least engage
> decision-makers at the highest level of political leadership to
> fighting this our inevitable challenge recognizing as well as
> realizing the fact that no president, no king, no emperor can change
> this… except the people, powered by young people because it’s about
> young people’s lives for today and tomorrow!
>
> Henry Ekwuruke
> President
> Nnado Foundation Inc / Development Generation Africa International
> http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/ekwuruke
>
>
> Henry Ekwuruke
> Executive Director,
> Development Generation Africa International
> Regional Correspondent - Africa News Network
> HIV/AIDS and Agriculture Working Group Member - Partnership to Cut
> Hunger and Poverty in Africa (PCHPA) Member - YES Country Network -
> Nigeria P.O.Box 2582, Umuahia - Abia State - Nigeria Mobile:
> +234-802-524-9923 Home Page:
> http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/ekwuruke
>
> Together: We can make a difference!
>
> ---------------------------------
> Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See
> how.
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Friends, welcome to another edition - our second last for the year
and the first since our big birthday celebrations in October. A lot
is still happening with IYPF as we progress our strategic plans, bed
down our new online membership systems, and work hard on IYPS 2008
preparations amongst many other things. I´ve you´ve been thinking
about getting involved with IYPF as a volunteer staff member - now is
the time!!!
In addition to all this, the IYPF´s 2007 Annual General Meeting is
approaching. It will be held on 17 December 2007 in Brisbane,
Australia. Details are available on our website
(www.iypf.org/membership_agm.htm), including our audited financial
statements for the last financial year. The AGM presentation, minutes
and eventually our annual report will also appear there online. All
IYPF ordinary (full/paid) members have been sent the voting forms to
elect three new directors for 2008 and also to consider motions from
the Directors on changes to the IYPF constitution in regards to
membership.
In our December newsletter, we´ll give you profiles of the director
nominees for the IYPF´s 2008 Board. I have to say, it will be a tough
decision for the member because this year we have 11 outstanding
applicants! Reading about the amazing work of other young
professionals is certainly one of the great joys of being in my
position - it can´t help but fill you with hope for the future. I
also find it humbling that so many of these YPs choose to not only
join IYPF, but seek to play a vital role in the future success of the
organisation. I believe our organisation is in good hands and will
only have more impact and success in informing, inspiring and
equipping young professionals around the globe to change their world
for good.
I´ll sign off for now and let you get to reading all about the Stand
Up events in October, Sustainable Transport & Energy, and Sustainable
Consumption. Don´t forget 1 December is World AIDS Day. Please ensure
you take some time to inform yourselves and others and to take action
to help address the HIV & AIDS challenge.
Yours for a better world for all,
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IN THIS EDITION
IYPF News - IYPF Helps Set World Record for Standing Up Against
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Member Activities & Projects - IYPF Member Profiles; My Experience in
Kibera
Top Lists - Sustainability is Insight; Reporting & Professional
Writing; Be Your Own Mini-World Bank; Does Aid Work? For the MDGs;
Global Governance and Simultaneous Policy
Partner Activities & Events - 4th World Youth Congress
Sustainable Transport & Energy - Transport Energy Futures; The
October War; China´s E-Bike Revolution; Transport Solutions; Slanting
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Sustainable Consumption - Waste & Consumption; World Food Day 16
October; Climate and Population Strip Fertile Land; TIG Panaroma on
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Subject: Wanted: your ICT expertise for connecting rural Asia
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2nd ANNUAL CONNECTING RURAL COMMUNITIES ASIA CONFERENCE 2008:
Last Mile Solutions for Sustainable and Inclusive ICT Connectivity
Connecting Rural Communities is currently the hottest topic in the
ICT
industry, as regulators and governments see the urgency of harnessing
ICT to bridge the digital divide - and the private sector too is
discovering that connecting rural communities can translate into new
market opportunities.
We are now in the process of confirming speakers and sponsors for our
4th conference on Connecting Rural Communities, which will take place
in India next year. Hundreds of ICT stakeholders have already
attended
CRC conferences, built relationships with senior decision makers,
raised their profile before an international delegation, and shared
best practices with pioneers in the ICT field.
Previous conferences have been hosted by the Communications
Commission
of Kenya, DoT Government of India and Ministry of Communications
Government of Nigeria. As a diplomatic, inter-governmental ICT
organisation, the CTO is in a powerful position to bring together
Asian regulators, Ministers and ICT giants who are mapping rural
connectivity in this explosive, high-growth market.
We are pleased to announce that momentum is building up fast for what
will be our most successful Connecting Rural Communities Forum, and
we
would like you to actively participate.
KEY SPEAKERS CONFIRMED AT THIS EARLY STAGE INCLUDE:
Mr. Neil Gough, International Policy Director, Vodafone
Senior Representative, BT
Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, CEO, Commonwealth Telecommunications
Organisation Mr. Ganesh Parthasarathy, Technical Director, TCIL,
Ministry of Communications and IT, India Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai Mr. N K Goyal,
Chairman
Emeritus, Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association Mr. Gabriel
Solomon, Senior Vice President, Public Policy, GSMA
KEY TOPICS INCLUDE:
3G
CDMA
WiMAX
VoIP
BROADBAND
SATELLITE CONNECTIVITY
UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUNDS
REGULATION
SPECTRUM ALLOCATION
LAST MILE SOLUTIONS
RURAL BANKING
SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MODELS THAT FOCUS ON BOPs
E-GOVERNANCE
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Expect to meet:
From the following sectors:
Ministers of Communications
Government
Director Generals
Regulatory Bodies
CEOs / COOs / CTOs
Mobile Operators
Managing Directors
Satellite Operators
Business Development Directors
ISPs
Network Planning Directors
Infrastructure Providers
Heads of Universal Service Funds
Manufacturers
Banks
Given India’s tremendous strides in this important area of rural
connectivity and being the fastest growing ICT market in the world,
CRC Asia 2008 is a must-attend conference for all stakeholders.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact Conference Producer, Mani Rai at m.kaur-rai@... or
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Date sent: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:46:18 +1080
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Hi Mr Cameron Neil
Connecting Up, Australia´s only national conference focused on the
use of information and communications technologies in charity and
nonprofit settings, is set for its fifth big year on Monday May 12
and Tuesday May 13, 2008. Our theme this year is `Online and Off to
the Future´. Based on your feedback this time there will be much more
emphasis on practical and hands-on workshops, more opportunities to
network, and less plenary keynotes. (Go to www.communit.info and
click the Connecting Up tab for details of the 07 conference held in
May.)
And this year we are on the move, with the conference being held in
Brisbane (venue to be advised shortly). Final negotiations are in
progress with some world-leading international guests in nonprofit
technology strategies, including the undisputed `queen´ of the US
nonprofit technology scene, Beth Kanter
http://www.bethkanter.org/about.htm and Zack Rosen, former web
developer for US Presidential candidate Howard Dean, co-founder of
the open source and social change pioneer, CivicSpace, and now with
Chapter Three http://chapterthreellc.com/about_us .
But this conference is essentially about our nonprofit technology
capacity here in Australia and we want you to share your stories,
experiences, successes, applications, technologies etc with other
delegates from all over Australia. You will find below guidelines
for potential presenters. Please assist us by passing this email on
to anyone you feel may be interested.
Regards
Doug Jacquier
CEO
Community Information Strategies Australia (CISA) Inc
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FIRST CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
IN PRESENTING AT
Connecting Up 08
Conference theme: `Online and Off to the Future for Nonprofits!´
12 - 13 May 2007
Brisbane, Queensland (venue tba)
Proudly supported by DonorTec www.donortec.com.au
This is the 5th in an annual conference series organised by Community
Information Strategies Australia (CISA) Inc,
Details at www.communIT.info
Connecting Up 2008
Conference Goals
* To provide a platform for innovative communities, businesses and
governments around Australia to share their experiences, successes
and lessons learned from technology programs and projects designed to
change their ´world´, whether it be a neighbourhood or a nation.
* To promote the social and economic benefits for disadvantaged and
isolated communities of access to affordable technology.
* To provide opportunities for like-minded not-for-profits,
communities, governments and businesses to build networks and develop
programs and projects.
* To continue the momentum towards a national approach to ensuring that
the technology capacity of community and not-for-profit organisations
allows them to effectively operate in the digital world.
GUIDELINES FOR REQUESTS TO PRESENT
Presentations must address one of the Conference Streams, as outlined
below.
Conference Streams:
* Strategic Planning - planning, consulting, researching and thinking
about where ICT fits with where you want to be in the future
* Generating Support and Money - Online fundraising and campaigning
* The Social Web (Web 2.0 and beyond) - Networking and collaboration
tools to connect you with the people you need to know or want to
reach (and vice versa)
* How-To Workshops - hands on skilling for nonprofits - in website
development, CMS systems, CRM, VoIP, Blogging, Using MS Office, Using
Open Office, Online directories, Video-conferencing, Choosing mobile
plans, Hosting Mail / Web, Networks, Security, spam etc, in-house
technical support vs outsourcing, Choosing suppliers e.g. broadband
carriers
Submission Requirements
The deadline for requests to present or to run workshops is Friday 28
February 2008. Submissions should include:
- Theme of presentation/workshop (see above for details)
- Brief title of proposed presentation/workshop e.g. Developing
IT skills in a remote community
- Summary of the presentation content - no more than 200 words
- Summary background of presenter/s - no more than 200 words
- A picture of presenter/s included for publicity and program
- Any relevant web links
The conference organisers strongly encourage the submission of
expressions of interest in presenting but we must reserve the right
to accept or decline offers to present, based on criteria which will
include balance in the program, adherence to a key conference stream,
broad representation from a range of locations and project/program
types, and relevance to the Conference generally.
Presentation Requirements
Presenters should plan for a session of45 minutes, including
allowing for questionsandinteraction, unless there is a compelling
reason fora session to extend to 90 minutes e.g. a practical
workshop. You should also be prepared to make your presentation
twice if there is sufficient interest. Any materials such as
electronic presentations must be supplied to the organisers in
advance and the organisers also advised in advance of your needs e.g.
data projector, laptop, Internet access etc
Presenter Exemptions
Presenters included in the Conference program will be exempt from
registration fees for the Conference on the day that they are
presenting but not for the other day of the Conference and nor the
Conference dinner - these will need to be booked and paid for
separately. Unfortunately we are not in the position at this point to
be able to offer air fares and accommodation to rural and interstate
presenters. However we are currently seeking sponsorship to assist
with the costs of a small number of presenters. Please indicate if
your Expression of Interest is entirely conditional on having some or
all of your costs met.
Selection Guidelines
Please bear in mind that this Conference is about sharing with others
what you are doing and/or have done and/or sharing skills, so that
delegates can come away from the conference with tangible, practical
ideas and/or skillsto assist them in their own projects and
plans.Therefore please ensure that your submission followsone or
more ofthe conference themes andaddresses theactual
implementationof aprojector program.Submissions will not be
acceptedbased on academic papers, theoretical researchor future
projections (there are other forums for these). Papers presented
shouldnotoverlyemphasise specific technical details(except in
skills-based workshops) but take a broaderoverviewof the issues
involvedand illustrate how the technology has benefited the project
and its intended customers. Presentersshould also refrain
fromdirectly promotinga particularproduct or business (contact us
for sponsorship or booths for this purpose), rather than a project or
program or general area of ICT capacity development.
Conference Bookings
Early bird bookings for conference delegates will open soon. As
always, we are working very hard at keeping costs down for nonprofit
groups and eligible concession holders.
Nonprofit organisations, government departments and businesses will
also be offered the opportunity to have a promotional booth at the
Conference. Please indicate if you would like further information
about this opportunity.
Further Enquiries: Simon Gee, Technology Information Manager, CISA
Inc 08 81222751 simong@... or Doug Jacquier, CEO, CISA Inc 08
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We are happy to announce that the 'telecentre magazine' was launched on December 12, 2007, at the telecentre.org Village, within the Global Knowledge Partnership's GK3 event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The quarterly magazine, produced by the Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), in partnership with telecentre.org, provides an in-depth review and analysis of the role of public access to technology, focusing on research findings, innovations, current thinking and debates.
“The telecentre magazine is important because it will document and analyse the rapid and exciting advances in addressing access questions," said Dr Ravi Gupta, Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director of CSDMS. "This is part of CSDMS's commitment to build thematic communities of practice, which also includes the well-received monthly i4d magazine.”
"The telecentre magazine responds to a long-standing demand from practitioners, investors, researchers, policymakers, and emerging market leaders," said Dr Basheerhamad Shadrach, Senior Programme Officer - Asia, telecentre.org, "to have a source of information and real examples of innovative uses of shared-access technologies. This magazine highlights how ordinary people solve the problems most critical to their daily needs and lives. It creates a feedback loop that can provide ideas for new and better products."
Aktar Badshah, Senior Director, Global Community Affairs, Microsoft, Michael Clarke, Director, ICT4D, IDRC and Mark Surman from telecentre.org were present during the launch of the magazine.
telecentre.org is a global community of people and organizations committed to increasing the social and economic impact of grassroots telecentres. Working together, we provide the resources that telecentres need to succeed: locally relevant content and services, support and learning opportunities, and networks that help telecentre activists connect to each other. With these things in hand, tens of thousands of telecentres will be in a better position to enrich the communities they serve. Our founding investors include Canada's International Development Research Centre, Microsoft, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Visit www.telecentre.org to learn more.
The Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) is a non-profit organisation based in Noida, near New Delhi, India. Founded in April 1997, CSDMS is committed to advocating for and developing knowledge solutions for the under-privileged through the use of innovative and effective information and communication technologies (ICTs). Our activities include conducting ICT research, promoting the use of knowledge-sharing tools, producing print and electronic media, and building capacity through training programmes. Our multi-cultural team has expertise from a range of disciplines. To learn more visit http://www.csdms.in/.
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Who Is Eligible to Participate?:The Unite For Sight internship is open to individuals 18 years and older, and there is no upper age limit. Volunteers range from undergraduate students to medical students, public health students and professionals, nurses, physician's assistants, teachers and educators, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, doctors, opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists.
What Do Volunteers Do?: Volunteers receive hands-on clinical experience while assisting doctors in remote, rural villages. Volunteers learn about international health and eye care, learn clinical skills while working with patients and doctors, and, in one program location, have an opportunity to perform cataract surgery on a goat's eye.
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access. The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds. Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness. These memories last a lifetime.
While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone and that leaves no person blind in the future.
What Do Volunteers Say?:
“During my volunteering experience, I realized that Unite for Sight’s service is a campaign for the salvation of humanity that allows the light of compassion to shine through each of us. I believe it is this display of altruism and commitment that makes the organization’s service so virtuous and treasured by both volunteers and patients. After all, making a difference in the world is not so difficult if only one would care enough to sacrifice a part of oneself in order to change the world for the better. My experience as a Unite for Sight volunteer has inspired me to dedicate my future career to serving underprivileged communities around the world.”—Chiwing “Jessica” Qu, Yale University Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in India 2007
"Without Unite for Sight, I cannot imagine how I could possibly have seen and learned so much as an undergraduate about medicine, other cultures, and my own desire and ability to make a difference in others' lives."--Charlotte Hogan, Georgetown University Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in India 2006 and Ghana 2005
"I can honestly say that everything I learned in 3 years of medical school paled in comparison to the 3 week experience I had in Accra (Ghana) in October 2007 as part of Unite For Sight. The program provides volunteers with a unique and hands-on involvement – being able to help out to the level of your training and comfort. My experience taught me that Ghanaian people are the friendliest people I have interacted with anywhere in the world, that ordinary people involved with Unite For Sight are making extraordinary differences, and that sitting in a classroom receiving a world-class education cannot match real life experiences while volunteering."--Varun Verma, UMDNJ Medical Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
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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
"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
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
"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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What is Unite For Sight's Mission? Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.
Unite For Sight's work to prevent blindness and restore sight is featured weekly on CNN INTERNATIONAL from September 2007-August 2008.
What Do Volunteers Do?: Volunteers receive hands-on clinical experience while assisting doctors in remote, rural villages. Volunteers learn about international health and eye care, learn clinical skills while working with patients and doctors, and, in one program location, have an opportunity to practice cataract surgery on a goat's eye.
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access. The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds. Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness. These memories last a lifetime.
While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone and that leaves no person blind in the future.
What Do Volunteers Say?:
“During my volunteering experience, I realized that Unite for Sight’s service is a campaign for the salvation of humanity that allows the light of compassion to shine through each of us. I believe it is this display of altruism and commitment that makes the organization’s service so virtuous and treasured by both volunteers and patients. After all, making a difference in the world is not so difficult if only one would care enough to sacrifice a part of oneself in order to change the world for the better. My experience as a Unite for Sight volunteer has inspired me to dedicate my future career to serving underprivileged communities around the world.”—Chiwing “Jessica” Qu, Yale University Undergraduate Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"I can honestly say that everything I learned in 3 years of medical school paled in comparison to the 3 week experience I had in Accra (Ghana) in October 2007 as part of Unite For Sight. The program provides volunteers with a unique and hands-on involvement – being able to help out to the level of your training and comfort. My experience taught me that Ghanaian people are the friendliest people I have interacted with anywhere in the world, that ordinary people involved with Unite For Sight are making extraordinary differences, and that sitting in a classroom receiving a world-class education cannot match real life experiences while volunteering."--Varun Verma, UMDNJ Medical Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"While in Ghana, I worked with an ophthalmologist (Dr. James Clarke), two eye nurses (Robert Dolo, Kartee Karloweah), an assistant (Bismark Boryor), and a coordinator (Seth). Working with the Unite for Sight team on these outreaches in service to these wonderful people of Ghana was the single most rewarding work I've done in my life. The people of Ghana are some of the friendliest and most thankful of anyone I have ever met. Overall, the experience has changed the way I view the world, my own country, and my role in the world forever. The only way to understand the way 4/5 of the world lives is to go yourself and get involved. The staff I worked with that are the heart and soul of Unite for Sight in Accra were some of the brightest and hard working individuals I have ever met. They are accomplishing feats few ever accomplish in their lives, and I am truly blessed to have had the opportunity to work with them and now call them my friends. I look forward to future work with Unite for Sight as an Ophthalmologist. The task at hand in Ghana, and I'm sure in all of Unite for Sight's locations throughout the world, is enormous. The more people that get involved, the more accessible services will be to these wonderful people. Plain and simple, the more we help, the more people can see the world they live in!”—Brian Fowler, Medical Student at University of Virginia, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
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/intl_volunteer
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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 is Unite For Sight's Mission? Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.
Unite For Sight's work to prevent blindness and restore sight is featured weekly on CNN INTERNATIONAL from September 2007-August 2008.
What Do Volunteers Do?: Volunteers receive hands-on clinical experience while assisting doctors in remote, rural villages. Volunteers learn about international health and eye care, learn clinical skills while working with patients and doctors, and, in one program location, have an opportunity to practice cataract surgery on a goat's eye.
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access. The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds. Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness. These memories last a lifetime.
While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone and that leaves no person blind in the future.
What Do Volunteers Say?:
“During my volunteering experience, I realized that Unite for Sight’s service is a campaign for the salvation of humanity that allows the light of compassion to shine through each of us. I believe it is this display of altruism and commitment that makes the organization’s service so virtuous and treasured by both volunteers and patients. After all, making a difference in the world is not so difficult if only one would care enough to sacrifice a part of oneself in order to change the world for the better. My experience as a Unite for Sight volunteer has inspired me to dedicate my future career to serving underprivileged communities around the world.”—Chiwing “Jessica” Qu, Yale University Undergraduate Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"I can honestly say that everything I learned in 3 years of medical school paled in comparison to the 3 week experience I had in Accra (Ghana) in October 2007 as part of Unite For Sight. The program provides volunteers with a unique and hands-on involvement – being able to help out to the level of your training and comfort. My experience taught me that Ghanaian people are the friendliest people I have interacted with anywhere in the world, that ordinary people involved with Unite For Sight are making extraordinary differences, and that sitting in a classroom receiving a world-class education cannot match real life experiences while volunteering."--Varun Verma, UMDNJ Medical Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"While in Ghana, I worked with an ophthalmologist (Dr. James Clarke), two eye nurses (Robert Dolo, Kartee Karloweah), an assistant (Bismark Boryor), and a coordinator (Seth). Working with the Unite for Sight team on these outreaches in service to these wonderful people of Ghana was the single most rewarding work I've done in my life. The people of Ghana are some of the friendliest and most thankful of anyone I have ever met. Overall, the experience has changed the way I view the world, my own country, and my role in the world forever. The only way to understand the way 4/5 of the world lives is to go yourself and get involved. The staff I worked with that are the heart and soul of Unite for Sight in Accra were some of the brightest and hard working individuals I have ever met. They are accomplishing feats few ever accomplish in their lives, and I am truly blessed to have had the opportunity to work with them and now call them my friends. I look forward to future work with Unite for Sight as an Ophthalmologist. The task at hand in Ghana, and I'm sure in all of Unite for Sight's locations throughout the world, is enormous. The more people that get involved, the more accessible services will be to these wonderful people. Plain and simple, the more we help, the more people can see the world they live in!”—Brian Fowler, Medical Student at University of Virginia, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
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/intl_volunteer
Also, Unite For Sight's Fifth Annual International Health Conference is coming up at Yale on April 12-13, 2008. Keynote addresses by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Dr. Allan Rosenfield, and Dr. Susan Blumenthal. Plus 180 Speakers and 2,000+ conference attendees. Register for the conference at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
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 is Unite For Sight's Mission? Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.
Unite For Sight's work to prevent blindness and restore sight is featured weekly on CNN INTERNATIONAL from September 2007-August 2008.
What Do Volunteers Do?: Volunteers receive hands-on clinical experience while assisting doctors in remote, rural villages. Volunteers learn about international health and eye care, learn clinical skills while working with patients and doctors, and, in one program location, have an opportunity to practice cataract surgery on a goat's eye.
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access. The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds. Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness. These memories last a lifetime.
While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone and that leaves no person blind in the future.
What Do Volunteers Say?:
“During my volunteering experience, I realized that Unite for Sight’s service is a campaign for the salvation of humanity that allows the light of compassion to shine through each of us. I believe it is this display of altruism and commitment that makes the organization’s service so virtuous and treasured by both volunteers and patients. After all, making a difference in the world is not so difficult if only one would care enough to sacrifice a part of oneself in order to change the world for the better. My experience as a Unite for Sight volunteer has inspired me to dedicate my future career to serving underprivileged communities around the world.”—Chiwing “Jessica” Qu, Yale University Undergraduate Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"I can honestly say that everything I learned in 3 years of medical school paled in comparison to the 3 week experience I had in Accra (Ghana) in October 2007 as part of Unite For Sight. The program provides volunteers with a unique and hands-on involvement – being able to help out to the level of your training and comfort. My experience taught me that Ghanaian people are the friendliest people I have interacted with anywhere in the world, that ordinary people involved with Unite For Sight are making extraordinary differences, and that sitting in a classroom receiving a world-class education cannot match real life experiences while volunteering."--Varun Verma, UMDNJ Medical Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"While in Ghana, I worked with an ophthalmologist (Dr. James Clarke), two eye nurses (Robert Dolo, Kartee Karloweah), an assistant (Bismark Boryor), and a coordinator (Seth). Working with the Unite for Sight team on these outreaches in service to these wonderful people of Ghana was the single most rewarding work I've done in my life. The people of Ghana are some of the friendliest and most thankful of anyone I have ever met. Overall, the experience has changed the way I view the world, my own country, and my role in the world forever. The only way to understand the way 4/5 of the world lives is to go yourself and get involved. The staff I worked with that are the heart and soul of Unite for Sight in Accra were some of the brightest and hard working individuals I have ever met. They are accomplishing feats few ever accomplish in their lives, and I am truly blessed to have had the opportunity to work with them and now call them my friends. I look forward to future work with Unite for Sight as an Ophthalmologist. The task at hand in Ghana, and I'm sure in all of Unite for Sight's locations throughout the world, is enormous. The more people that get involved, the more accessible services will be to these wonderful people. Plain and simple, the more we help, the more people can see the world they live in!”—Brian Fowler, Medical Student at University of Virginia, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
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/intl_volunteer
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 is Unite For Sight's Mission? Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.
Unite For Sight's work to prevent blindness and restore sight is featured weekly on CNN INTERNATIONAL from September 2007-August 2008.
What Do Volunteers Do?: Volunteers receive hands-on clinical experience while assisting doctors in remote, rural villages. Volunteers learn about international health and eye care, learn clinical skills while working with patients and doctors, and, in one program location, have an opportunity to practice cataract surgery on a goat's eye.
The goal of Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics and communities is to create eye disease-free communities. Unite For Sight’s volunteers (local and visiting) work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access. The eye clinic’s eye doctors and Unite For Sight volunteers jointly provide community-based screening programs in rural villages. The clinic’s eye doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinic for surgery. Patients receive free surgery funded by Unite For Sight so that no patient remains blind due to lack of funds. Volunteers immediately see the joy on patients' faces when their sight is restored after years of blindness. These memories last a lifetime.
While helping the community, volunteers are in a position to witness and draw their own conclusions about the failures and inequities of global health systems. It broadens their view of what works, and what role they can have to insure a health system that works for everyone and that leaves no person blind in the future.
What Do Volunteers Say?:
"I can honestly say that everything I learned in 3 years of medical school paled in comparison to the 3 week experience I had in Accra (Ghana) in October 2007 as part of Unite For Sight. The program provides volunteers with a unique and hands-on involvement – being able to help out to the level of your training and comfort. My experience taught me that Ghanaian people are the friendliest people I have interacted with anywhere in the world, that ordinary people involved with Unite For Sight are making extraordinary differences, and that sitting in a classroom receiving a world-class education cannot match real life experiences while volunteering."--Varun Verma, UMDNJ Medical Student, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"While in Ghana, I worked with an ophthalmologist (Dr. James Clarke), two eye nurses (Robert Dolo, Kartee Karloweah), an assistant (Bismark Boryor), and a coordinator (Seth). Working with the Unite for Sight team on these outreaches in service to these wonderful people of Ghana was the single most rewarding work I've done in my life. The people of Ghana are some of the friendliest and most thankful of anyone I have ever met. Overall, the experience has changed the way I view the world, my own country, and my role in the world forever. The only way to understand the way 4/5 of the world lives is to go yourself and get involved. The staff I worked with that are the heart and soul of Unite for Sight in Accra were some of the brightest and hard working individuals I have ever met. They are accomplishing feats few ever accomplish in their lives, and I am truly blessed to have had the opportunity to work with them and now call them my friends. I look forward to future work with Unite for Sight as an Ophthalmologist. The task at hand in Ghana, and I'm sure in all of Unite for Sight's locations throughout the world, is enormous. The more people that get involved, the more accessible services will be to these wonderful people. Plain and simple, the more we help, the more people can see the world they live in!”—Brian Fowler
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/intl_volunteer
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 Submissionhttp://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
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
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
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
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
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Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health & Development Conference April 18-19, 2009 "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"
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.
Interested in submitting 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.
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
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
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
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
Many of you may be interested in this international "Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation" conference to be held at Yale University. Please forward widely.
Register Online For 6th Annual Global Health Conference. Registration rate increases monthly.
"Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation" Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
The Unite For Sight Conference is what CNN calls "A Meeting of Minds"
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.
CME, CNE, and CPE Credits will be available for select conference sessions.
Unite For Sight's conference 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
Unite For Sight has been featured weekly on CNN International and in The New York Times
Unite For Sight engages, inspires, and trains volunteers to support and assist eye clinics globally. Volunteers receive hands-on training in international community-based eye care, public health, and international development, and while immersed in effective Unite For Sight programs, they gain skills to become new leaders in global health dedicated to creating lasting solutions.
With the assistance of volunteers like you, Unite For Sight has restored sight to 18,500 patients and provided eye care to more than 600,000. Unite For Sight supports eye clinics by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care. Unite For Sight programs are sustainable, apply best practice principles in global health and development, and achieve effective change. Unite For Sight's programs also demonstrate the highest standards in social entrepreneurship.
Experience the thrill of contributing to change on the highest level
Be part of global problem solving
Receive 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
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)
"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
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
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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)
Please forward widely. Registration (Early Bird Rate) and Abstract Submission Now Open.
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
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
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
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)
GH/Innovate 2010
Global Health & Innovation Conference Presented by Unite For Sight, 7th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
200 speakers, including keynote addresses by Seth Godin, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs. Social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, and many others.
The Global Health & Innovation Conference convenes more than 2,200 participants from 55 countries. The conference challenges students, public health professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative, effective solutions to achieve global goals.
Keynote Speakers
"Using The Power of Stories and Tribes to Spread Your Messages and Change The World," Seth Godin, MBA, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com
Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project
Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation
Kevin Jones, Co-Founder, Good Capital
"Creating Viable Enterprises For The Base of the Pyramid," Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
"From Ideas To Action Workshop: Creating Viable Enterprises For The Base of the Pyramid," Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
"Doing More With Less," Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something
Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ajay Nair, MBBS, MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund
"Achieving Global Health Through Community Wealth," Billy Shore, Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength
"Investing in Local Social Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries," Jennifer Staple-Clark, Founder, President and CEO, Unite For Sight
"Solutions That Can Go Big: How To Think About Scalability," Kevin Starr, MD, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation
"WaterCredit: Driving Financial Innovation in Water Supply & Sanitation For The Poor," Gary White, Executive Director, Water.org
Andrew Wolk, CEO, Root Cause
Plus 200 Featured Speakers, including:
Ron Adelman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Yale University Eye Center
"HIV Medication to Empower Communities: An International Model," Jesus Aguais, Executive Director, Aid for AIDS
"Reconciling the WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health with the Multi-dimensional Resilience Index," Astier Almedom, DPhil, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health
"Large-Scale Effectiveness Evaluations of Maternal and Child Programs in Low-Income Countries: A New Approach," Agbessi Amouzou, PhD, Assistant Scientist, Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide
"Three Unique Models For Services For Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Worldwide Orphans Foundation in Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Bulgaria," Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
"Workshop -- How To Create an NGO That Does Community Work With Children Abroad: The Ins and Outs, The Ups and Downs," Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Bob Bollinger, MD, MPH, Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health; Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkins University
"Meeting The Global Physician Shortage: The Contribution of Cuba's Latin American Medical School," Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
"Medical Innovation in Humanitarian Situations: The Work of Medecins San Frontieres," Jean-Herve Bardol, MD, Former President of MSF-France; Former Board Member, MSF-USA
Kathleen Casey, MD, FACS, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons
"The Latin American and Carribean Initiative for the Integration of Prenatal Care with the Testing and Treatment of HIV and Syphilis," Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine; Academic Director, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Partners in Health
James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
Luz Claudio, MD, Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Chief of the Division of International Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Health Care Systems," Paul Cleary, PhD, Dean of Public Health, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health; Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health
"Diagnosis and Treatment of Glaucoma For Persons on Medical Missions," Gustavo V. de Moraes, MD, Research Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health and Economic Development, Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Project
"Building a Distributed Village Model," Zoravar Dhaliwal, CEO, Community Lab
"Partnerships - Are We There Yet," Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnerships
Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
"America's Vital Interests in Global Health," Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine of The National Academies
Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
Kevin Frick, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International
Ilene Gipson, PhD, Senior Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
"Simple Solutions To Complex Problems: How A Text Message Can Save A Life," Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
"Workshop: How To Advance Global Health Through Technology and Social Entrepreneurship," Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
"Obstetric Fistula - The Ultimate Indignity, Gender Inequality, and Poverty," Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation
Laura Herman, Managing Director, Social Impact Advisors
Christopher P. Howson, PhD, Vice President for Global Programs, The March of Dimes Foundation
Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidmiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
Norman Kleiman, PhD, Director, Eye Radiation and Environmental Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
"Siyajabula! The Challenges of Developing Empathic Care Intervention Methodology for Children and Guardians Affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa," Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders
Robert Lawrence, MD, The Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Bill Livermore, Executive Director, Somaly Mam Foundation
"Changing The World While Keeping Your Day Job," Nicholas Lumpp, Cofounder, Somaly Mam Foundation
Pamela Lynam, MD, Country Director Kenya, JHPIEGO - Johns Hopkins University
"An AIDS Vaccine: Progress To End The Epidemic," John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
Carole Mitnick, Sc.D., Instructor, Department of Global Health and Social medicine, Harvard Medical School
"Society, Migration, Culture and Women," Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, MPhil, CHES, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Global Health Program Director, New York Medical College School of Public Health
Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-USA
Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health
Rebecca Onie, JD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTH
"Role of Inflammation in Retinal Degeneration," Santa Ono, PhD, Sr. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic Affairs, Emory University
David Oot, Associate Vice President for Health, Save The Children
Sung Chul Park, MD, Glaucoma Fellow, New York Medical College, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Global Health Partnerships--Critical Success Factors and Lessons Learned From A Private Sector Perspective," Steven Phillips, MD, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation
Maryse B. Pierre-Louis, MD, MPH, MH/HSA, Lead HNP Specialist, Human Development; Coordinator, Booster Program For Malaria Control in Africa, World Bank Africa Region
"Vision 2020/USA and The Future of Collaborative Efforts in Blindness Prevention," Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
"Online Innovation and Trends in Global Health," Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications
"Leveraging Advances in Nanotechnology and Consumer Electronics to Detect Infectious Diseases at the Point of Care," Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, Rice University
"Partnership Models in International Health, The Yale Experience," Majid Sadigh, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
"How To Develop a Sustainable Eye Care Plan For Rural Regions," Sarang Salam, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India
Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis
Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US Agency for International Development
"Avoidable Blindness and Eye Care in Latin America and the Caribbean," Juan Carlos Silva, MD, MPH, Regional Advisor in Prevention of Blindness, PAHO-WHO
"Integration of Surgery Into Population-Based Healthcare in Learning Models of Integrated Care," David Spiegel, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Where There Is No Light: Using Solar Power to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Nigeria," Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Founder, WE CARE Solar
John E. Tedstrom, PhD, President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)
"Trabeculectomy Glaucoma Surgery: Clincal Pearls," James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital
"Can We Eliminate Blinding Trachoma by 2020?" Sheila West, PhD, El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
"Innovation in Global Health Research," David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Derek Yach, Vice President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo
"The Global Fight Against Malaria: U.S. Strategy for Combating Malaria Around The World," Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiative
Social Enterprise Pitch: Present at GH/Innovate 2010
Do you have an innovative idea? Are you working to develop a new program or organization? Submit your social enterprise pitch for presentation at GH/Innovate 2010.
GH/Innovate 2010 will include special sessions where selected participants will present their new idea in the format of a 5-minute social enterprise pitch. Following the pitch, there is a 5-minute period for questions and answers, as well as feedback from the audience. This will provide participants with an opportunity to formulate and present their idea, collaborate and network with others interested in their idea, and receive feedback and ideas from other conference participants.
Rolling submission deadline. The first qualified social enterprise pitches will be accepted.
The idea can be in the brainstorming stage, or in the early implementation stage.
The social enterprise pitch should be program-focused in the area of global health, social innovation and entrepreneurship, international development, international education, or NGOs and community-based programs.
GH/Innovate 2010
Global Health & Innovation Conference Presented by Unite For Sight, 7th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
200 speakers, including keynote addresses by Seth Godin, Jacqueline Novogratz, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs. Social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, and many others.
The Global Health & Innovation Conference convenes more than 2,200 students, scientists, academicians, and professionals from 55 countries who are engaged in global health, international development, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, microenterprise, and medicine.
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