Dear Colleagues,

You and your colleagues may be interested in attending or presenting at the upcoming 13th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference> on April 16-17, 2016, which is the world’s largest and leading global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference.

Research, program, and Innovation Prize/impact pitch abstracts are currently being accepted. The first abstract deadline is August 31<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/abstracts>.

The registration rate increases after July 31; register during July for the lowest registration rate.<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference>  Please feel free to forward this announcement to others who may also be interested in attending or presenting.

Global Health & Innovation Conference
Presented by Unite For Sight, 13th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 16 - Sunday, April 17, 2016
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 more than 2,000 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.  Register now to secure the lowest registration rate:http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

Interested in presenting at the conference? Submit an abstract<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/abstracts> for consideration.

To date, the conference's confirmed speakers include:
Keynote Addresses

  *   Ned Breslin, Partnership and Strategic Investments Executive Vice President, Wounded Warrior Project
  *   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
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Design Thinking Speakers

  *   Cal Bruns, CEO/Chief Creative Incubationist, Matchboxology
  *   Elizabeth Johansen, Director of Product Design and Implementation, Diagnostics For All
  *   Tyler Riewer, Content Strategist at charity: water
  *   Eliza Rosenbaum, Business Development & Partnerships Associate, OpenIDEO
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Education Speakers

  *   Ana Rowena McCullough, Co-Founder and CEO, QuestBridge
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Environment Health, Energy, Food and Agriculture Speakers

  *   Jessie Cronan, Executive Director, Gardens for Health International
  *   Anne Evens, CEO, Elevate Energy
  *   Carl Ganter, Co-founder and Director, Circle of Blue
  *   Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., Co-founder and Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
  *   Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  *   Pavan Sukhdev, Environmental Economist
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Film, Photography, Art & Global Health Speakers

  *   Nicole Newnham, Filmmaker
  *   Benjamin Reece, CEO, Development and Co-Founder, Deltree
  *   Lisa Russell, Emmy-Winning Filmmaker and Global Health Advocate, Governess Films
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Healthcare Delivery Models and Impact Measurement

  *   Tricia Bolender, Global Health and Leadership Consultant
  *   Molly Christianson, Director of Impact and Advocacy, LivingGoods
  *   James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Ghana Medical Director
  *   Jennifer Dohrn, CNM, DNP, Director, Office of Global Initiatives and WHO Collaborating Center in Advanced Practice Nursing
  *   Maggie Ehrenfried, PT, DPT, Development Officer, LifeNet International
  *   Gene Kwan, MD, Clinical Fellow, Boston Medical Center and Partners In Health
  *   Christian Loucq, MD, Chief Global Engagement & Strategy Officer, EVP, PACT
  *   Scott MacMillan,Communications and Outreach Manager, BRAC
  *   Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye Hospital, NYSASDRI, India; Unite For Sight Partner
  *   Jennifer Schechter, MSW, MPH, Executive Director, Hope Through Health
  *   Onno Schellekens, Managing Director, PharmAccess Foundation
  *   Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Friends Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
  *   Additional speakers TBA

University Education Initiatives in Global Health and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

  *   David Bouslough, MD, MPH, FACEP, Assistant Clinical Professor, Director, Division of International Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Director of Life Support Education, Clinical Advisor for Emergency Medicine, Emergency Preparedness, and Palliative Care, LBJ Tropical Medical Center, American Samoa
  *   Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Past Chair, AAP Section International Child Health Executive Committee; Director, Nurseries at Middlesex Hospital
  *   Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
  *   Richard Skolnik, Lecturer, Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health; Author, "Essentials of Global Health/Global Health 101"
  *   Harsh Sule, MD, MPP, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Systems-Based Practice & Global Health, Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Health Policy & Advocacy

  *   Sam Daley-Harris, CEO, Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation, A Project of RESULTS Educational Fund
  *   Mary Holland, Research Scholar and Director, Graduate Lawyering Program, New York University School of Law
  *   Derek Yach, Executive Director, The Vitality Institute
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Maternal and Child Health Speakers

  *    Yet Asfaw, Vice President, EngenderHealth
  *   Jennifer Dohrn, CNM, DNP, Director, Office of Global Initiatives and WHO Collaborating Center in Advanced Practice Nursing, Columbia University School of Nursing
  *   Wafaei Fawzi, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences, Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health; Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
  *   Karen Hanrahan, Chief Program Officer, Center for Reproductive Rights
  *   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
  *   Kim Longfield, Director, Strategic Research and Evaluation, Population Services International
  *   Sofia Merajver, Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology; Scientific Director, Breast Oncology Program; Director, Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Evaluation Program, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
  *   Pasquale Patrizio, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director, In Vitro Fertilization and Preservation Program, Yale University
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Mental and Neurological Health Speakers

  *   Christina Borba, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director of Research, The Chester M. Pierce, M.D. Division of Global Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Other Non-Communicable Diseases Speakers

  *   David Dausey, Professor of Public Health and Director, Mercyhurst Institute of Public Health
  *   Michael Gyasi, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Saint Thomas Eye Center, Ghana
  *   Waking Jean-Baptiste, NCD Clinic Manager, Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais (HUM), Partners in Health / Zanmi Lasante
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Patient-Centered Initiatives Speakers

  *   Paul Cleary, Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health; Dean, Yale School of Public Health
  *   Richard Siegrist, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Associate Academic Director, MHCM Program; Adjunct Lecturer on Health Care Management, Harvard School of Public Health
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Speakers

  *   Manzi Anatole, Cross-site QI Mentorship Program Director, Partners In Health
  *   Juan-Carlos Alegre, Result Management Director, Results Management, Impact and Learning, Management Sciences for Health
  *   Jonathon Gass, Monitoring and Evaluation Lead, Ariadne Labs
  *   Lisa Hirschhorn, Director of Implementation and Improvement Science, Ariadne Labs; Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  *   Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH, Faculty Affiliate, Global Supply Chain Management Forum, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
  *   Anne Milgram, Vice President of Criminal Justice, Laura and John Arnold Foundation
  *   Paul Ndebele, PhD, Director, Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe
  *   Emily Oster, Associate Professor of Economics, Brown University
  *   Georgia Sambunaris, Global Health Consultant
  *   Daniel Zoughbie, MSc, DPhil, Chief Executive Officer, Microclinic International
  *   Alix Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Philanthropy, Investment, and Organizational Management Speakers

  *   Kate Ahern, VP, Social Innovation, The Case Foundation
  *   Diana Ayton-Shenker, Founder & CEO, Global Momenta
  *   David Barash, Executive Director, Global Health Portfolio and Chief Medical Officer, GE Foundation
  *   Sandra Laney, Deputy Director of Innovation, Ebola Program, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
  *   Bogdan Tatarchevskiy, Director, Developing World Markets
  *   Shubha Kumar, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor & Director of Programs, University of Southern California (USC)
  *   Jordan Levy, Chief External Relations Officer, Ubuntu Education Fund
  *   Mark Roithmayr, Chief Development Officer, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
  *   Thomas Poggee, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs
  *   Andrew Taylor, VP Investments, Grand Challenges Canada
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Social Business Speakers

  *   Eve Blossom, Founder, Lulan Artisans
  *   Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
  *   Lauren Walters, Founder and CEO of 2 Degrees Food
  *   Kate Williams, CEO, 1% for the Planet
  *   Joe Whinney, Founder and CEO, Theo Chocolate, Inc.
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

  *   Jane Aronson, MD, President and CEO, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
  *   Jim Koch, Senior Founding Fellow, Center for Science, Technology, and Society; Don C. Dodson Distinguished Service Professor, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
  *   Thane Kreiner, Executive Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society; Howard and Alida Charney University Professor of Science and Technology for Social Benefit, Santa Clara University
  *   Cleveland Justis, Executive Director, Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management
  *   Ted London, Vice President and Senior Research Fellow, Scaling Impact Initiative, the William Davidson Institute (WDI); Faculty, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
  *   Nancy Lublin, Founder and CEO, CrisisTextLine
  *   Matt Segneri, Director, Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard Business School
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Social Media, Communications, and Marketing Speakers

  *   Jenny Best, Global Communications Lead, One Acre Fund
  *   Charlotte Cole, Executive Director, Blue Butterfly Collaborative
  *   Dave DeLuca, Head of Campaigns, Do Something
  *   Eve Heyn, Eve Heyn Communications, Specializing in Global Health
  *   Firdaus Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Culture Shift
  *   Susan Krenn, Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Surgery & Global Health Speakers

  *   Aron Rose, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Associate Clinical Professor, Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing, Yale University School of Nursing
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Technology in Global Health Speakers

  *   David K. Aylward, Senior Advisor, Global Health and Technology, Ashoka -- Innovators for the Public
  *   Pam Bolton, VP Innovations & Strategy, Concern Worldwide U.S.
  *   Paul Ellingstad, Director of Human Progress Initiatives, HP Corporate Affairs, Hewlett-Packard
  *   Erika Harding, Director of Replication Initiatives, Project ECHO®/ECHO Institute, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
  *   Gillian Javetski, Director of Communications, Dimagi, Inc.
  *   Bobby Jefferson, Director Informatics, Futures Group
  *   Kenneth Paik, MD, MBA, Director of Operations, Sana
  *   Amish Parashar, Director of Innovation, Triple Ring Technologies
  *   Jake Porway, Founder and Executive Director, DataKind
  *   Arti Patel Varanasi, President and CEO, Advancing Synergy, LLC
  *   Additional speakers TBA

Water and Sanitation Speakers

  *   Zafar Adeel, Director, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health
  *   Additional speakers TBA
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