Please forward widely * 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 * Join 2,000 conference attendees and 130 speakers for a stimulating conference. Keynote Addresses By Dr. Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Sonia Sachs And More Than 130 Featured Speakers <http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/conf_speakers.php> *Call For Abstracts *- DEADLINE JULY 15, 2007 - http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/abstracts.php *Register For Conference* - EARLY BIRD RATE ($35 Students, $60 All Others) Increases After June 15th - http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2008/registration.php REGISTER BY JUNE 15TH TO SECURE LOWEST RATE *Who should attend?* Anyone interested in international health, public health, international development, medicine, social entrepreneurship, eye care, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, bioethics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, and public service. *Keynote Addresses* * *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 Sachs, *MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages *Featured Speakers (Confirmed Thus Far)* * Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble * Michele Barry, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Global Health Director, Office of International Health; Chief, General Medicine Firm, Yale University School of Medicine * Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association * Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center * Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health; Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health * Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International * Donald Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine * Michael Cappello, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health; Director, Program in International Child Health; Co-Director, International Adoption Clinic, Yale University School of Medicine * Emily Moore and Mark Carlson, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Sociology, San Diego State University * James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana * Margaret Duah-Mensah, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana * Susan Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services * Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana * Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center * Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President, International Trachoma Initiative * Dean Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University * Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in International Relations; DPhil Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford; JD Candidate, Yale University Law School * Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health * Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems * Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB Candidate, University of Ghana School of Medicine * Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health * Edward O'Neil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med; Author, Awakening Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global Service, and A Practical Guide to Global Health Service * Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health * Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine * Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons * Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation * Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness * Thomas Quinn, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health * Nathan Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary * Ian Rawson, MD, CEO/Directeur General, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti * William Reese, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation * Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow, New York Eye and Ear Institute * Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker * Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist * Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child Development and Nutrition, UNICEF * Bruce Shields, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman Emeritus, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale University School of Medicine * Peter Singer, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine; Chief, Clinical Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California * Kari Stoever, Senior Program Officer, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Sabin Vaccine Institute * Robert Farris Thompson, PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University * Jamie Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns Without Borders * Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care, Pennsylvania College of Optometry * Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana Access CANCHID archives at: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/canchid.html plus CANCHID subscription management. CANCHID is a joint service of the Canadian Society for International Health < http:www.csih.org > and the Distributed Knowledge Project at York University. Queries to: [log in to unmask]