International Health & Development conference at Yale New Haven, Connecticut April 12-13 2008
Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow
Call for abstracts
Join 2,000 conference attendees and 130 speakers for a stimulating
conference.
Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan
Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim
Plus More Than 130 Featured Speakers
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Call For Abstracts - DEADLINE JULY 15, 2007 -
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/abstracts.php
Register For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ($45 Students, $70 All
Others)
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008
REGISTER BY JULY
15th TO SECURE LOWEST RATE
Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public
health, international development, medicine, social entrepreneurship,
eye care, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, bioethics,
anthropology, health policy, advocacy, and public service.
Keynote Addresses
Susan Blumenthal , /MD, MPA, Former //U.S. 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/
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/
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/
Featured Speakers (Confirmed Thus Far)
Ted M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman & CEO, US Doctors For Africa
Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water,
Procter & Gamble
Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace
Hospital, Ghana
Michele Barry , MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Global Health
Director, Office of International Health; Chief, General Medicine
Firm, Yale University School of Medicine
Georges Benjamin , MD, Executive Director, American Public Health
Association
Terry Blaschke , MD, Professor of Medicine and of Molecular
Pharmacology (Active Emeritus), Stanford University School of Medicine
Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family
Health; Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman
School of Public Health
Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE)
International
Donald Budenz , MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology,
Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School
of Medicine
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
Emily Moore and Mark Carlson , PhD, Adjunct Professor, Sociology,
San Diego State University
James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal
Eye Clinic, Ghana
Margaret Duah-Mensah , Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
Susan Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department
of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of
Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
David Friedman , MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
and International Health, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Gyasi , MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye
Care Program, Ghana
Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, New
York Medical College
Leon Herndon , MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke
University Eye Center
Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President, International Trachoma Initiative
Rosemary Janiszewski, MS, CHES, Deputy Director, Office of
Communication, Health Education and Public Liaison; Director,
National Eye Health Education Program, National Eye Institute
(NEI), National Institutes of Health
Dean Karlan , PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for
Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations; DPhil
Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD
Candidate, Yale University Law School
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health
Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale
School of Public Health
Doug Lawrence , Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical -
Ophthalmic Systems
F iona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International
Tshepo Mbalambi , BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of
Ghana School of Medicine
Christine Melton, MD, MS, Friends of Aravind Association
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
Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Director of International Programs;
Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
School of Medicine
Edward O'Neil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening
Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A
Practical Guide to Global Health Service
Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middlesex Hospital
Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child
Health
Elijah Paintsil , MD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of
Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and
Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation
Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International
Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
Thomas Quinn, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
Nathan Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear
Infirmary
Ian Rawson, MD, CEO/Directeur General, Hopital Albert Schweitzer
Haiti
William Reese , President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear
Institute
Lisa Russell , MPH, Filmmaker
Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist
Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition, UNICEF
Bruce Shields , MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman
Emeritus, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of
Medicine
Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna,
India
Kari Stoever, Senior Program Officer, Neglected Tropical
Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute
Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International Health Care
and Programs, Mercy Ships, Int'l
Robert Farris Thompson , PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the
History of Art, Yale University
Jamie Lachman and Tim Cunningham , Clowns Without Borders
James C. Tsai, MD, Chair, Department of Ophthalmologist, Yale
University School of Medicine
Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care,
Pennsylvania College of Optometry
Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching
Hospital, Ghana