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*Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health Conference*
*Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow*
*April 12-13, 2008*
*Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut*
*http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008*
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Join 2,000 conference attendees and 150 speakers for a stimulating 
conference.


    Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan
    Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim
    Plus More Than 150 Featured Speakers
    <http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php>

*Register For Conference* - EARLY BIRD RATE ($60 students, $85 all 
others) *http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008* REGISTER NOW TO 
SECURE LOWEST RATE. RATE INCREASES MONTHLY.

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


    Keynote Addresses

# *Susan Blumenthal*, /MD,MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General; Senior 
Advisor For Health and Medicine; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Clinical 
Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts 
University Medical Center/
# *"Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health," Jim Yong Kim*, /MD, 
PhD,Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director, Francois Xavier Bagnoud 
Center for Health and Human Rights; Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor of 
Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Chair, 
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the 
Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's 
Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director at World Health Organization/
# *Jeffrey Sachs*, /PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia 
University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of 
Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to 
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon/
# *"Millennium Village Project", Sonia Ehrlich Sachs 
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php#soniaehrlichsachs>*, 
/MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages/


    Plenary Panels (Confirmed Thus Far)


      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 
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php#soniaehrlichsachs>, 
MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages


        Panelists:

# Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana 
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php#thomasbaah>
# James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye 
Clinic, Ghana 
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php#jamesclarke>
# Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care 
Program, Ghana 
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php#michaelgyasi>
# Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, 
Ghana <http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php#sethwanye>


      Building Capacity With Community Health Outreach Workers


        Introduction:

# 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


        Panelists:

# James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye 
Clinic, Ghana 
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php#jamesclarke>
# Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, 
Ghana 
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php#margaretduah-mensah>
# Eva Harris, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious 
Diseases,School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley; 
President,Sustainable Sciences Institute 
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php#evaharris>
# Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University 
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php#harshadsanghvi>


    150 Speakers: Complete List at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

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