Global Health & Innovation Conference 2013
Presented by Unite For Sight, 10th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 13 - Sunday, April 14, 2013

http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

"A Meeting of Minds"--CNN

The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference.  This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.  Register during September to secure the lowest registration rate.

Interested in presenting at the conference? Submit an abstract for consideration.  The final abstract deadline is September 30.

The conference's confirmed speakers to date include:

Keynote Addresses

• Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute, Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
• Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University
• More speakers to be announced

Design Thinking Speakers

• "Strategic Innovation in Complex Challenges," Banny Banerjee, Director, Stanford ChangeLabs; Associate Professor, Design Group, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University
• "The Next Step for Design: Social Entrepreneurship," Jon Kolko, Vice President of Design, MyEdu; Executive Director, Austin Center for Design
• "Applying Business Principles to Global Health: Starting with the Customer," Amy Lockwood, Deputy Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University
• "Weapons of Mass Design: Taking Products to Scale," Robert HJ Miros, CEO, 3rd Stone Design Inc.
• "FAIL! Brilliant Accidents, Necessary Failures, and Improbable Breakthroughs in Public Health, And What They Mean for Innovation," Andrew Zolli, Curator, Pop!Tech
• More speakers to be announced

Education Initiatives in Global Health Speakers

• "The 'New' World Health: Building a Field Across Disciplines and Sectors," Sue Goldie, Director, Harvard Global Health Institute
• "Global Health, Education, and Development: Exploring the Critical Linkages," Brian Heuser, Assistant Professor of the Practice of International Education Policy, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University; Affiliated Faculty, Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH)
• "International Medical Electives: The Critical Importance of Listening to Your Host," Christian Kraeker, MD, FRCPC DTM&H MSc, Department of Internal Medicine, McMaster University
• "Initiating, Fostering, and Sustaining Biomedical Engineering Education in Africa," Muhammad Zaman, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, Boston University
• More speakers to be announced

Environment, Energy, and Agriculture Speakers

• "The Agriculture, Food & Nutrition, and Health Nexus: A New Transdiciplinary Approach to Global Development," Gebisa Ejeta, 2009 World Food Prize Laureate; Science Envoy of President Barack Obama
• "The Relationships Between Human Health and Environmental Conservation: Case Studies from Madagascar," Christopher Golden, PhD, MPH, Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
• "Asset-Based Financing for Smallholder Farmers," Tony Kalm, Managing Director, One Acre Fund
• Julie Beth Zimmerman, PhD, Associate Professor of Green Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Acting Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University
• More speakers to be announced

Film, Photography, Art & Global Health Speakers

• "Using Visual Methods to Investigate Urban Health Disparities," Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD, Core Investigator, VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VA Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
• "Patient Empowerment: How the Visually Impaired Can Become Better Advocates for Themselves...And for Their Service Providers," Joseph Lovett, Producer/Director, Going Blind
• "Designing Social Change Programs: Lessons from the Field," Bob McKinnon, President GALEWiLL Design; Director, the GALEWiLL Center for Opportunity & Progress
• More speakers to be announced

Healthcare Delivery Models and Impact Measurement

• "Achieving the Health MDGs Through Reliable and Cost-Effective Transportation: Case Studies from Africa," Lisa Bakker, Development Director, Riders for Health
• "Tackling U.S. Health Disparities through Reverse Innovation: Community Health Workers Increase Value-Based Care," Heidi Behforouz, Medical and Executive Director, Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment (PACT) Project
• "The Cuban Health System Today," Peter Bourne, Senior Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
• "Middle East 'Doctors With Borders' Ophthalmology Opportunities," Michael Brennan, American Academy of Ophthalmology Past President; Ophthalmologist, Alamance Eye Center
• James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Ghana Medical Director
• "Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare/Wellness for the Base of the Pyramid," Al Hammond, Co-Founder and Chairman of Healthpoint Services; Director of Health for All, Ashoka
• "Partners In Health at 25: A Generation of Solidarity and Partnership," Ali Lutz, Haiti Special Projects Manager, Partners In Health
• "Frontline Healthworkers: Village Health for Liberia," Rajesh Panjabi, Executive Director, Tiyatien Health; Associate Physician, Division of Global Health Equity, Harvard Medical School
• "5 Ways to Empower Health Entrepreneurs: With Mobile, Micro-Finance, Merchandise and More," Chuck Slaughter, President and Founder, Living Goods
• More speakers to be announced

Health Policy & Advocacy

• "Trading in Global Health: The Politics of Innovation," Tahir Amin, Co-Founder and Director of Intellectual Property, I-MAK
• "Is There the Courage to Change the Nation’s Diet?" Kelly Brownell, Professor of Psychology, Epidemiology and Public Health; Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University
• "The Art of the Patient Narrative: Using Narrative to Enhance Diagnosis and Transform International Policy," Leana Wen, MD, MSc, Emergency Physician, Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals; Clinical Fellow, Harvard MEdical School
• More speakers to be announced

Maternal and Child Health Speakers

• "Improving Maternal and Child Health: A Look at Community Level Interventions that Save Lives," Koki Agarwal, Director MCHIP, JHPIEGO
• "State of the World's Children: A Tragedy in the Making," Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
• "The Role of Nutritious Products to Combat Stunting as One of the Key Long-Term Strategies," Martin Bloem, Global Coordinator, WFP UNAIDS
• "Children as Key Participants in Health Promotion," Mary Carlson, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• "Collective Efficacy as a Protective Factor in Child Health Promotion," Felton James Earls, Research Professor of Human Development, Harvard School of Public Health
• "Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: The Forgotten Aspect of Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Affected Settings," Jhumka Gupta, ScD, Assistant Professor, Global Health Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
• "The Global Landscape of Cross-border Reproductive Care: Twenty Key Findings for the New Millennium," Marcia Inhorn, MPH, PhD, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs; Editor, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University
• "Clinical and Community Action to Address Postpartum Hemorrhage Plus," Ellen Israel, Senior Technical Advisor for Women’s Health and Rights, Pathfinder International
• "Friends of Low-Cost IVF: Empowering Infertile Women Globally," Pasquale Patrizio, Professor of Obestrics and Gynecology, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Fertility Center
• "Eliminating Pediatric AIDS, One Mother at a Time," Robin Smalley, Co-Founder/International Director, mothers2mothers International
• More speakers to be announced

Non-Communicable Diseases Speakers

• "Challenges and Strategies for Assessing Mental Health in Cross-Cultural Contexts," Judith Bass, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Applied Mental Health Research Group, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "Let's Close the Billion Person Treatment Gap for Common Mental Disorders: Rethinking Integration, Knowledge, Delivery, and the Future of Health Systems Improvement through a Billion Minds and Lives," Gary Belkin, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Director, Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine; Senior Director for Psychiatric Services, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
• "Association of Sexual Violence, Human Rights Violations, and Mental Health Outcomes in Liberia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo," Kirsten Johnson, MD, MPH, Director, Humanitarian Studies Initiative, McGill University; Affiliated Faculty, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University
• "Closing the Cancer Divide: Opportunities for Health System Strengthening," Felicia Knaul, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Harvard Global Equity Initiative
• "Innovative Partnership for Vision Research Integration: Leveraging Existing Health and Development Platforms for the Eye Diseases," John Prakash, PhD, MBA, Associate Director, International Programs, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
• "Ensuring Right to Sight by Eliminating Needless Blindness through Public Private Community Participation Model," Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye Hospital, NYSASDRI, India; Unite For Sight Partner
• "Tropical Dermatology: Role in Global Health," Aisha Sethi, Assistant Professor, Dermatology and Infectious Diseases, Associate Residency Program Director, Section of Dermatology, University of Chicago
• More speakers to be announced

Organization Management Speakers

• "Innovation in Health Systems," Rifat Atun, Professor of International Health Management, Imperial College London
• More speakers to be announced

Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Speakers

• "Measuring Performance and Outcomes of Health Programs in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Health Systems Perspective," Juan-Carlos Alegre, Director, Monitoring and Evaluation, Management Sciences for Health
• "Controlled Trials as Program Evaluation: Not Just for Researchers Anymore," Paul Bolton, Associate Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "Evaluating Mexico’s Habitat Program: Does Improved Slum Infrastructure Lead to Better Health Outcomes?" Craig McIntosh, Associate Professor of Economics, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California - San Diego
• "Low Grade Inflammation and Glaucoma," James Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital
• "But How Generalizable is That? A Framework for Examining the External Validity of Development Interventions," Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist, Development Research Group, The World Bank
• More speakers to be announced

Philanthropy and Investment Speakers

• "Gender Lens Investing in Healthcare," Natalia Oberti Noguera, Founder and CEO, Pipeline Fellowship
• "Piloting the 'Health Impact Fund' Idea," Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University
• "Impact Investing in Healthcare for Low-Income Communities," Keely Stevenson, CEO, Bamboo Finance USA
• More speakers to be announced

Social Enterprise Speakers

• "Transparency as a Brand Culture," Kyle Berner, Creator, Feelgoodz LLC
• "Lessons Learned From Doing Social Enterprise Start Ups," Jeffrey Church, Founder, Nika Water
• "Creative Failure: How Culture, Economics, and Projection Can Screw Up a Great Program, and What to Learn from That," Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
• "Money in the Jungle: Investments and Earned Income Opportunities in the Amazon," Tyler Gage, Co-Founder and President, Runa
• "The Fig Food Movement: From Tikkun Olam to the Whole Foods Shelf," Joel Henry, President and Founder, Fig Food Company, LLC
• "Separating Consumer Products From Profit: Using a Non-Profit Model in a For-Profit Industry," Krista Lampe, CORE Foods Chief of Operations and Co-Founder
• Ken Lee, Co-founder and Co-owner, Lotus Foods
• "Building from the Inside Out: Co-opertives as an Egalitarian, Democratic, Grassroots, Free-Market Development Strategy," Rodney North, The Answer Man - Information for the Public and Media, Equal Exchange Coop
• "Lessons Learned from 28 Days in Captivity," Alastair Onglingswan, CEO, Green Souls Shoes
• Frederick Schilling, Co-Creator, Big Tree Farms
• "Improving Our Economy and Our Health with Real Food," Noha Waibsnaider, Founder and CEO, Peeled Snacks
• "From the Congo to the Center of the Universe: How Chocolate Can Help Save the World," Joe Whinney, Founder and CEO, Theo Chocolate, Inc.
• More speakers to be announced

Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

• "The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Economy," Philip Auerswald, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
• "From Start-Up to Scale-Up: The Path to Becoming Industry Leaders in Reducing Indoor Air Pollution," Ron Bills, Chairman and CEO, Envirofit International
• "Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Experimental Evidence from Local Markets for Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda," David Yanagizawa-Drott, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• "Post Conflict Nations: A Framework for Change in the Era of Total Global Competition - The Case Study of Rwanda," Michael Fairbanks, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• "Collaborative Interdependence: Building Better Partnerships Across Sectors," Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute and Faculty, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
• " The Low Take-up of Welfare Improving Products Among Poor Consumers: Lessons from Randomized Controlled Trials in Bangladesh, India and Malawi," A. Mushfiq Morabak, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University School of Management
• "Design and Policy for Humanitarian Impact," Tim Zak, Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Institute for Social Innovation, H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University
• More speakers to be announced

Social Media & Marketing Speakers

• "A Global Study of Marketing and Preschool Children: Young Children’s Awareness of Fast Food, Beverages, Chips & Candy, Alcohol, and Tobacco," Dina Borzekowski, EdD, Associate Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "The Medium, the Message, and the Muppets: How Sesame Workshop Delivers Locally-Specific Health Education Across the Globe," Charlotte Cole, Senior Vice President, Global Education, Sesame Workshop
• "Integrated Impact: Aligning Internal Resources and Engaging External Stakeholders to Make a Difference," Scott Henderson, Managing Director, CauseShift
• "Marketing Strategies for Non-Profit and For-Benefit Organizations," Naomi Hirabayashi, Director of Marketing, Do Something
• "The Animated Activist," Firdaus Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Cultural Shift
• More speakers to be announced

Surgery & Global Health Speakers

• "Three Years of Championing the Fight Against Needless Cataract Blindness in Ghana: Experiences and Challenges at Save The Nation's Sight Clinic," Thomas Baah, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director, Save The Nation's Sight Clinic, Ghana
• "Evolution of Conceptual Approaches for NGO Intervention," Scott Corlew, ReSurge
• "Glaucoma Care in West Africa: Challenges and Opportunities," Leon Herndon, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology Duke Glaucoma Service
• "The Evolving Role of Anesthesia and Surgery Within Global Health," Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH, Director, Vanderbilt Anesthesia Global Health and Development; President, Global Surgical Consortium; Co-founder, Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence
• "Implementation of Surgical Services in Low and Middle Income Countries," Selwyn Rogers, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
• More speakers to be announced

Technology in Global Health Speakers

• "Comparative Effectiveness Evaluations of Health Care Technology in Low to Middle Income Countries," Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, Associate Director for Research and Education, University of Michigan Center for Global Health
• "Health Information Systems: Design Thinking in the Context of Quality Improvement," Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MS, MPH, Executive Director, Sana, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT; Research Director, Laboratory of Computational Physiology, MIT; Staff Intensivist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• "Building Sustainable Health Technology for the Developing World," Ndubuisi Ekekwe, Founder, African Institution of Technology
• "Breakthrough: Driving Better Access, Quality, and Efficiency through Collaboration, Technology, and Innovation," Paul Ellingstad, Parter and Program Development Director, Sustainability and Social Innovation, Hewlett-Packard
• "Remote Biosensing in Resource-Limited Settings," Jessica Haberer, MD, MS, Research Scientist, Harvard Institute for Global Health; Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
• "Using mHealth, eHealth and iHealth in PMTCT and OVC Programs," Bobby Jefferson, Senior Informatics Advisor, Futures Group
• "Bridging the Communication Gap with Speaking Books," Brian Julius, Owner, Books of Hope
• "Technology For Better Healthcare: Using Technology to Leapfrog Traditional Models of Healthcare Delivery in the Developing World," Shainoor Khoja, Managing Director, Roshan
• Paul Meyer, Chairman and President, Voxiva, Inc.
• "The Social Nature of Digital Disease Detection," Robert Munro, CEO, Ibidon; Graduate Fellow, Stanford University
• "Can mHealth Bridge the Gap Between the Haves and Have Nots?" John Piette, Associate Director for Global Health Communications, Center for Global Health, University of Michigan
• "Mobile Phone Technology in the Developing World: Driving Supply Chain Transparency and Worker Empowerment," Todd Stark, President, Good World Solutions
• More speakers to be announced

Water and Sanitation Speakers

• "Re-Imagining Reporting Live: Lessons on Transparency When It's All Out There," Ned Breslin, Chief Executive Officer, Water For People
• More speakers to be announced

"Advice From The Experts" Panels

• "Careers in Social Entrepreneurship: Advice From The Experts"
• "Careers in Global Health: Advice From The Experts"
• More panels to be announced

Interactive Workshops

• "Camp for Orphans: Building Independence and Leadership Skills in At-Risk Youth,"Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
• "Youth Programming in Developing Countries: All About Training!"Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
• "Scaling Your Social Venture: Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur," Paul Bloom, Ph.D., Faculty Director, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE), Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
• "The Practicalities of Where, When, and How to Implement Controlled Trials as Program Evaluation,"Paul Bolton, Associate Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Judith Bass, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Applied Mental Health Research Group, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "The Coming Wave of Social Entrepreneurship," Jeffrey Church, Founder, Nika Water
• "What You Won't Learn in Business School: How to Structure a Social Enterprise for Real and Lasting Change," Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
• "Meeting Global Public Challenges through the Private Sector,"Michael Fairbanks, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• "From Concept to Reality: Exploring Methods to Bring Products to Scale in Developing Markets," Elizabeth Johansen, Director of Product Development, Design that Matters
• More workshops to be announced

Penn Graduate Women in Science and Engineering cordially invite you to the 6th Annual Alumnae-Student Luncheon

Keynote speaker:
Dr. Jeannie Rojas
Director, Johnson & Johnson Ventures

Date and time:
Saturday, April 13, 12-2 PM

Location:
University of Pennsylvania
Class of '49 Auditorium, Houston Hall
3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia


To all graduate women in science and engineering, PGWISE will be holding its 6th AnnualAlumnae-Student Luncheon on Saturday, April 13. This is a great chance to meet and mingle with alumnae and other grad students over hors d'oeuvres and a buffet lunch. Our keynote speaker this year is Dr. Jeannie Rojas, Director of Johnson & Johnson Ventures. Participants will receive a program with contact information for the alumnae participants. The luncheon will be a great opportunity for you to get advice about career planning, learn more about possible companies or job tracks, and make connections with Penn graduates who are eager to share their experiences.

Please RSVP by Saturday, March 30 here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1hN-okEJKhklpqgWMz7KIbSjlTgAowByp4Zcw53mUYqc/viewform