Call for Abstracts: Global Health & Innovation Conference

Posted by on August 04, 2010

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

http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

“A Meeting of Minds”–CNN

Unite For Sight’s must-attend, thought-leading conference convenes leaders, changemakers, and participants from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.  The conference convenes 2,200 people from all 50 states and from 50 countries.

Conference registration is now open.

Interested in presenting at the conference? We have two types of presentation opportunities.

*   Call For Abstracts: Do you have an abstract for oral or poster presentation?  Submit your abstract for presentation.  The first abstract deadline is August 15, 2010.  Complete details are on the conference website.
*   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.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

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, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University

More keynote speakers to be announced

200 Featured Speakers, including these confirmed speakers:

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

“Workshop – Social Entrepreneurs: Systems Thinking in Action,” Karabi Acharya, ScD, Change Leader, Ashoka

“Design Education in the Humanitarian Sphere: Designmatters Best Practices,” Mariana Amatullo, Vice President, Director, Designmatters Department, Art Center College of Design

“Readying Orphans For Their Community: Models For Taking Orphans Out Of Isolation,” Jane Aronson, MD, CEO and Founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University

“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

“Workshop – New Media For Global Health,” Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

“Investing in Adolescent Girls — The Transition to Adulthood,” Wendy Baldwin, Vice President, Poverty, Gender and Youth, Population Council

“Singing for Life: HIV/AIDS, Music, and Health in Uganda,” Gregory Barz, PhD, Ethnomusicologist, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University

“High-Impact Social Entrepreneurship” Elmira Bayrasli, Policy and Outreach, Endeavor

“Workshop – Social Entrepreneurship,” Elmira Bayrasli, Policy and Outreach, Endeavor

Matthew Berg, ICT Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project

“Asking The Right Questions: Lessons Learned From The Cuban Health System,” Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George’s University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)

Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy & Administration; Director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health

“Doctors With Borders,” Michael Brennan, MD, American Academy of Ophthalmology Past President, Alamance Eye Center

“Orchestration of the Host Immune Response by Malaria Parasites,” Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

“Innovations and Technologies for Resource Constrained Settings: Opportunities and Strategies,” Thomas F. Burke, MD, Chief, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Massachusetts General Hospital Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, MGH Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor, KCA University and Victoria Institute for Science and Technology, Kisumu, Kenya

“Strategies to Prevent Maternal Mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine; Academic Director, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Partners in Health

“Randomized Trials in Malaria: Questions, Answers and More Questions,” Jessica Cohen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health

Josh Cohen, Managing Partner, City Light Capital

Cindy Cooper, Director, Social Innovation Incubator, School of Business Administration, Portland State University

“The Evolution of Development and Urgent Need for a Genetic Jump,” Mark Dybul, Co-Director Global Health Law Program; Distinguished Visiting Scholars, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University

Michael Fairbanks, co-Founder, SEVEN

“Designing Social Impact,” Heather Fleming, Catapult Design

“Technologies for Rural Health,” Rich Fletcher, PhD, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab

“Pediatric Vision Screening in Western Hunan Province,” Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Medical Studies, Yale School of Medicine; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

“Collaborative Development of Open Source Medical Record Systems in Developing Countries: The OpenMRS Experience,” Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc, Director of Informatics and Telemedicine, Partners in Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Robert Freling, Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund

“Rewards for Green Behavior,” Ron Gonen, Founder and CEO, Recycle Bank

Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation

“Clean Off-Grid Lighting,” Gaurav Gupta, Partner, Dalberg and Founder, The Climate Project, India

“Wireless Adherence Monitoring Technology,” Jessica Haberer, MD, Research Scientist, Harvard Initiative for Global Health; Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Rema Hanna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Rebecca Hardin, Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment

“Authentic Corporate Engagement in Global Health,” Laura Herman, Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisors

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

“Workshop – Breaking Thru The Clutter: How to Market Your Cause and Attract New Champions,” Scott Hendersen, Principal at CauseShift and Campaign Manager of WeCanEndThis.com

Brian Heuser, M.T.S., Ed.D., Lecturer in International Education and Public Policy, Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations; International Leadership Development Track Director, Peabody College of Education and Human Development; Senior Research Fellow and Advisor, Office of the Associate Provost and Dean of Students, Vanderbilt University

“Proceedings From The African Glaucoma Summit,” Leon Herndon, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center

“Workshop – Starting a Nonprofit: Myths and Realities,” Maurice Segall and Rick Hobish, JD, Pro Bono Partnership

“Global Health: Leadership, Not Money,” Karl Hofmann, President and CEO, PSI

“Rescuing the Bottom Billion Through Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases,” Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute; Distinguished Research Pressor and Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University

Jonathan Jackson, Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dimagi

“IQSolutions, Using Health Informatics to Make Informed Decisions,” Bobby Jefferson, Health IT Project Manager, Futures Group

“Farmers First: Scaling a Permanent and Sustainable End To Hunger,” Tony Kalm, Director, One Acre Fund

Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Mehmood Khan, Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, PepsiCo

“Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business,” Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something

“Building Widespread Political Support for Newborn, Child and Maternal Health,” Charles MacCormack, CEO, Save The Children

“Agriculture, The Other Health Intervention,” Bonnie McClafferty, Head, Development & Communications, HarvestPlus

“The Power of Social Entrepreneurship to Change an Industry,” Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO, New Leaf Paper

“Workshop – The Power of Social Entrepreneurship to Change an Industry,” Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO, New Leaf Paper

“The Talent Gap: A Leadership Opportunity,” Blair Miller, Talent Manager, Acumen Fund

“Architecture for the Underserved,” Michael Murphy, MASS Group

“Clean Energy — A Key to Health and Development,” Anne Murray, Senior Development Officer, E+CO

Moses Musaazi, PhD, Professor and Former Head, Electrical Engineering Department, Makerere University; Founder and Managing Director of Technology for Tomorrow; Developer of Makapad

“Photonics Based Telemedicine Technologies Toward Smart Global Health Systems,” Aydogan Ozcan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, NanoSystems Institute, UCLA

Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-US

Ken Patterson, RESULTS Educational Fund, Global Grassroots Manager

“Building Successful Public Private Partnerships in Global Health: A Private Sector Perspective From The Malaria Community,” Steven Phillips, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation

“Workshop – Design Global Change,” Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor, University of Hartford

“Project Firefly: Next-Generation Infant Phototherapy for Developing Countries,” Timothy Prestero, CEO, Design That Matters

Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

Aron Rose, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Zeda Rosenberg, CEO, International Partnership for Microbicides

Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker

Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, USAID

Harshad Sanghvi, Vice President and Medical Director of JHPIEGO

Simon Sinek, Sinek Partners

“WE CARE Solar – Bringing Light to Maternal Health Care,” Laura Stachel, MD, MPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Co-Founder, WE CARE Solar

Mary Ellen Stanton, USAID Senior Maternal Health Advisor

James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital

“Global HIV Prevention,” Sten Vermund, MD, PhD, Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health

“Hearing The Unheard Cry: Strategies to Save Newborn Lives at Scale,” Steve Wall, Senior Newborn Health Research Advisor, Save The Children

“WaterCredit: Driving Financial Innovation in Water Supply & Sanitation For The Poor,” Gary White, Executive Director, Water.org

“Design Thinking For Social Innovation,” Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead, IDEO

“Workshop – Design Thinking,” Jocelyn Wyatt, Social Innovation Lead, IDEO

“Narrowing The Gap Between Evidence and Action in Global Health,” Gavin Yamey, MD, MA, MRCP, Lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group

“ECOfashion: An ECOpreneur’s Journey to Transform the Global Textile Industry,” Marci Zaroff, Founder and CEO, FASE; Founder, Under the Canopy

The conference will include more than 200 speakers. More speakers to be announced.