[Tribeta-L] Conference Announcement

[Ashley Salter]

This is a conference announcement for anyone interested in global  
health, international development, or social entrepreneurship.  The  
Global Health and Innovation Summit conference is being put on by  
Unite for Site.

"The Global Health and Innovation Summit convenes a committed vanguard  
of 2,500 people from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges  
students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers,  
universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop  
innovative solutions to achieve global goals."

There's more information below and the website as well.
Check it out!
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Register Online Today. Registration rate increases after January 31.
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Global Health and Innovation Summit
A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference     NEW: Conference Schedule  
Online

Early Bird Rate - Register Now To Secure Lowest Rate:
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

"A Meeting of Minds," --CNN

200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Susan Blumenthal,  
Nicholas
Kristof, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Al Sommer, and Dr.  
Harold
Varmus. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save  
The
Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers,  
and
many others.

What? Join 2,500 people from all 50 states and from more than 60  
countries
for an innovative, high-impact idea incubator.
Who should attend? Students, professionals, educators, doctors,  
scientists,
lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others.  Anyone
interested in international health and development, public health, eye
care, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy,
microfinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy,  
public
service, environmental health, and education.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

"Global Health Challenges and Opportunities," Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA,
Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at
Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center;  
Senior
Medical Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research; Chair, Global
Health Program, Meridian International Center

"The Challenges of Development and Making Aid Work," Nicholas Kristof,
Columnist, The New York Times

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 Villages: Update," Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health
Coordinator, Millennium Village Project

"Preventing Blindness; Saving Lives," Al Sommer, MD, MHS, Professor and
Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

"New Perspectives on Global Health and Science," Harold Varmus, MD,
President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center;
Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize Recipient

Confirmed Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship  
Speakers

"Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems,"Leah
Barrett, MPA, Program Officer, VillageReach

"Unite For Sight: Social Entrepreneurship As A Symbol of Hope for the
(Poor) Blind Villagers and Refugees in Ghana," James Clarke, MD,
Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

"Strategic Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Advancing Global  
Health,"
Greg Dees, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and
co-founder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship,
Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

"The Power of Public/Private "Hybrids," Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive
Directors, mothers2mothers

"The HealthStore Foundation: Improving Access to Life-Saving Medicines
through Micro-Franchising," Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board,  
CEO and
Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation

"The Impact of the Food and Nutrition Crisis on the Global Health  
Agenda,"
Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children

"Health Care From The Grassroots," Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical
Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social
Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social
Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital

"'Patient' Capital for Global Health," Ajay Nair, MBBS MPH, Portfolio
Associate, Acumen Fund

Plus 200 More Featured Speakers: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
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