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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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