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Dear Colleagues,


The 15th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference> will be held on April 14-15, 2018. The Global Health & Innovation Conference convenes nearly 2,000 participants and more than 300 presentations about global health, responsible global engagement, social entrepreneurship, and innovation. Register by March 31 for a 15% reduced rate.<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference> Please feel free to forward this message widely.

Panel topics range from "Cultivating Cultural Competence: How to Develop Respectful Organizations and Partnerships" to "Building a Fulfilling Career in Global Health." See many of the 300 conference presentations in the list below, and the complete schedule<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/speaker-schedule-2018> can be seen on the conference website.


Global Health & Innovation Conference
Presented by Unite For Sight, 15th Annual Conference
At Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 14 - Sunday, April 15, 2018
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

The conference's 300 confirmed presentations include:

Keynote Addresses

  *   "Creating Change Through Ubuntu: Putting Humanity at the Center of Development," Jordan Levy, Chief External Relations Officer, Ubuntu Pathways
  *   "How Health For All Is Within Our Grasp," Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University; University Professor, Columbia University; Director, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network; Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General, António Guterres
  *   "Lessons from the Millennium Villages Health System," Sonia Sachs, Director of Health, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University; Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project; Director, One Million CHW Campaign

Design Thinking Speakers

  *   "Let's Transform Empathy into an Asset that Generates Measurable Returns," Cal Bruns, CEO/Chief Innovationist, Matchboxology
  *   "Designing for Health at all Scales: From Products, Buildings to Communities," James Connelly, Vice President of Products and Strategic Growth, International Living Future Institute
  *   "A Case Study in Human-Centered Design: Medic Mobile's Open Source Health Equity Analytics," Isaac Holeman, Co-Founder, Medic Mobile
  *   "Building Businesses with Impact: A Roadmap to Scale," Ted London, Ross School of Business & William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan
  *   "The Story­telling Cloth: Textile Design for Community Engagement During Health Campaigns in West Africa," Eliza Squibb, Executive Director, GAIA Vaccine Foundation; Assistant Professor, Textiles Department, Rhode Island School of Design

Healthcare Delivery Models and Impact Measurement

  *   "Wellbeing: A Systems Approach. Sickcare Falls Far Short," David Aylward, Senior Advisor, Community Health Center, Inc.
  *   “Social Innovation and Sustainable Solutions to Health,” Darren Back, Senior Director, Social Investments & Global Health Programs, Pfizer Inc. and the Pfizer Foundation
  *   "Staying Abreast: New Debates and Developments in Infant Nutrition," Pam Bolton, Senior Advisor, JustActions
  *   "Equity and Sustainability in Global Health Partnerships: Lessons from Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Liberia," Corrado Cancedda, Associate Physician, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  *   "Developing Emergency Medicine: Our Hidden Curriculum," Keegan Checkett, Co-Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Partners In Health; Director of International Emergency Medicine, University of Chicago
  *   "Effective Communication: A Vital Tool in Eye Care," James Clarke, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Ghana Medical Director
  *   "Building a Global Health Program at Columbia University School of Nursing: Challenges and Successes," Jennifer Dohrn, Director, Office of Global Initiatives and WHO Collaborating Center in Advanced Practice Nursing, Columbia University School of Nursing
  *   "Violence as a Public Health Issue," Peter Donnelly, President and CEO Public Health Ontario; Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University; Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
  *   "Agents of Change: Impact Evaluation of the NAMWEZA (‘Yes, together we can!’) Intervention with People Living with HIV (PLH) and Members of Their Social Networks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania," Mary Smith Fawzi, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
  *   "Navigator Scotland and the Reachable Moment: An Emergency Room Intervention for Violence," Christine Goodall, Senior Clinical Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant, University of Glasgow; Director, Medics Against Violence
  *   "Bridging the Deadly Implementation Gap & Improving Healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa," Grace Humbles, Communications Officer, LifeNet International
  *   "The Smoking Gun: Public Health Lessons," Woodie Kessel, Senior Scholar, Koop Institute, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College Professor of Pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College Professor of the Practice, School of Public Health, University of Maryland
  *   "Challenges to a Silver Bullet Approach in Malaria Control," Amy Lehman, CEO and Founder, Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
  *   "Rebuilding Health Systems After Ebola in Rural Sierra Leone," Regan Marsh, Director of Clinical Systems, Partners In Health; Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  *   "From Reaching Out to Scaling Up: Pursing a Decade of Community-Driven Impact," Julius Mbeya, Managing Director, Lwala Community Alliance
  *   "Why Community Health Workers Fail, and When They Thrive," Daniel Palazuelos, Senior Health and Policy Advisor for Community Health Systems, Partners In Health; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  *   "From Aspirations to Reality: Management Lessons from a Decade at PIH," Lindsay Palazuelos, Senior Program Development Officer, Partners In Health
  *   "Strengthening Health Systems Through Improved Emergency Care," Shada Rouhani, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Senior Advisor, Emergency Medicine, L'Hopital Université de Mirebalais, Haiti
  *   "Eye Care is the Life Line for Survival & Development of Community in India," Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye Hospital, NYSASDRI, India; Unite For Sight Partner
  *   "Value-Based Healthcare: Costing Primary Care in Haiti. The Strategy to Maximize Value for Patients in Low Resource Countries and Change the Paradigm of How NGOs Fundraise," Mahek Shah, Senior Researcher, Harvard Business School
  *   "Mitigating Health Consequences of Climate Change," Sten Vermund, Dean and Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
  *   "Outcomes of the Ghana Blindness And Visual Impairment Study," Seth Wanye, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Friends Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner

The complete<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/speaker-schedule-2017> conference schedule has been announced.<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/speaker-schedule-2018>

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