You and your colleagues may be interested in attending or presenting at the Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale, which is the world's leading global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference.  For those interested in presenting at the conference, we are currently accepting social enterprise pitches.  We would appreciate it if you could please forward this announcement to those who may be interested in attending or presenting.  The registration rate increases after March 20.

GH/Innovate 2011
Global Health & Innovation Conference
Presented by Unite For Sight, 8th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 16 - Sunday, April 17, 2011

"A Meeting of Minds"--CNN

Registration & Details (Registration rate increases after March 20): http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

200 speakers, including keynote addresses by Ken Cook, Victoria Hale, Jeffrey Sachs, and Sonia Sachs.  Social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Ashoka, Endeavor, mothers2mothers, VillageReach, Water.org, and many others.  The conference schedule can be seen at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

The conference is attended by the world's top global health professionals, social entrepreneurship luminaries, and other professionals and students interested in global health and social entrepreneurship.  Join more than 2,200 professionals and students from 55 countries who are interested in global health and international development, public health, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, filmmaking and photography, social media, philanthropy, microfinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and education.

Interested in presenting at the conference?

  *   Call For Social Enterprise Pitches: Do you have an innovative idea or a new program in development?  Submit your idea for presentation.  Social enterprise pitches are accepted on a rolling application deadline, and the first quality pitches will be accepted for oral presentation.  When the social enterprise pitch spots are filled to capacity, applications will no longer be accepted.  See social enterprise pitch instructions on the conference website.<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference>

Keynote Speakers

"Igniting Social Advocacy Through Social Media," Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group

"Pharmaceuticals For Humanity," Victoria Hale, PhD, Founder of Medicines360; Founder and Chair Emeritus, OneWorld Health

"Compassion and Efficiency in US Health Policy," 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

"Progress in the Millennium Villages: Lessons for Scaling Up Public Health," Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University

200 Featured Speakers, including:

"How Do You Know When You've Revolutionized An Industry?: Ashoka's Approach to Assessing Impact," Karabi Acharya, ScD, Change Leader, Ashoka

"Doctors as Storytellers: Using Our Stories For Social Change," Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC's Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

"Global Mobile Surveys," Nathan Eagle, CEO, txteagle Inc; Visiting Assistant Professor, MIT Media Lab; Research Assistant Professor, Northeastern Computer Science; Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute

"Innovation Partnerships in Public Health," Robert Fabricant, Vice President of Creative, Frog Design Inc.

"The Demand Side: Social Innovation and Gaps in Global Health," Gene Falk, Co-founder and President, mothers2mothers

"Not Everyone Cares: Marketing Your Cause in a Cluttered Marketplace," Scott Henderson, Principal at CauseShift and Campaign Manager of WeCanEndThis.com

"Farmers First: Scaling a Permanent and Sustainable End To Hunger," Tony Kalm, Director of Business Development, One Acre Fund

"Scale-Up of a Pilot Intervention to Improve Immunization Coverage in Northern Mozambique: Use of Impact Evaluation and Cost Study for Advocacy," Becca Miller, VillageReach

"Market-Based Innovations in Healthcare Delivery: A Case Study of LifeSpring Hospitals," Tricia Morente, Head of Strategy and Marketing, LifeSpring Hospitals

"Poor Architecture: New Models of Design Practice and Empowerment Through the Resource Constrained Built Environment," Michael Murphy, Executive Director and Co-Founder, MASS Design Group

"WaterCredit: Driving Financial Innovation in Water Supply & Sanitation For The Poor," Gary White, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Water.org

The conference schedule with more than 275 presentations can be seen at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

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