You and your colleagues may be interested in attending or presenting at the upcoming 16th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University <https://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/> on April 13-14, 2019, which is the world’s largest and leading global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference.
Register during October<https://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/> for a highly reduced registration rate (more than 40% lower than the full rate charged in April).
Confirmed speakers to date: Learn from more than 250 speakers who are committed to effective, responsible programs in health, development, entrepreneurship, and education. See the confirmed 2019 conference speakers<https://mx.technolutions.net/mpss/c/3gA/jM0HAA/t.2l2/KtNDmy56SE28YSskXi-_4g/h2/uQHZJSxyOoM8AOi7mHZ1CB-2FfgQPZ7a3qAoJGrsVrxB1bprOU7-2FK9Lfo1MaJ-2FWhgqvkzLvXdGiUGO-2Bil-2B2mCWXA-3D-3D> to date, including keynote speakers Agnes Binagwaho, Joia Mukherjee, Sanjiv Chopra, Gary Cohen, and Jordan Levy.
Call for Abstracts: Abstracts are currently being accepted for research presentations, program presentations, and for the social impact pitch presentations, including submissions for the $10,000 and $5,000 GHIC Innovation Prize. The final abstract deadline is October 15<https://mx.technolutions.net/mpss/c/3gA/jM0HAA/t.2l2/KtNDmy56SE28YSskXi-_4g/h3/uQHZJSxyOoM8AOi7mHZ1CB-2FfgQPZ7a3qAoJGrsVrxB0I3R63jpuVIiJiX6-2Bhy0S6Y3cm9upNLgMYX66F7hLuvA-3D-3D> for those submitting a research or program abstract.
Global Health & Innovation Conference
April 13-14, 2019 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 16th annual conference
The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world’s largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,000 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. Register during October for a more than 40% discount off of the full rate<https://slate.uniteforsight.org/register/GHIC2019>.
The conference’s confirmed speakers to date include:
Keynote Addresses
* Agnes Binagwaho, Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda; former Minister of Health, Rwanda; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
* Sanjiv Chopra, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
* Gary Cohen, President, Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth
* Jordan Levy, Chief External Relations Officer, Ubuntu Pathways
* Joia Mukherjee, Chief Medical Officer, Partners In Health; Associate Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
* Presenters TBA
Design Thinking Speakers
* Jessa Blades, Managing Director, IDEO.org
* Stefanie Drake, Founder and Lead Strategist, Drake Strategies
* Isaac Holeman, Co-Founder & Research Lead, Medic Mobile
* Ted London, Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; Senior Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute
* Eliza Squibb, Executive Director, GAIA Vaccine Foundation; Assistant Professor, Textiles Department, Rhode Island School of Design
* Additional Presenters TBA
Education and School-Based Program Speakers
* Rhonda Bondie, Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
* Tovah Klein, Director, Barnard College Center for Toddler Development; Associate Professor, Barnard College
* Julie Mountcastle, Head Teacher and Director of Creative Arts, Slate School
* Ana Rowena McCullough, Co-Founder and CEO, QuestBridge
* Additional Presenters TBA
Environmental Health, Energy, Food, and Agriculture Speakers
* Howard Mielke, Research Professor, Tulane University
* Kim Nace, Executive Director, Rich Earth Institute
* Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
* Additional Presenters TBA
Healthcare Delivery Models and Impact Measurement
* David Aylward, Senior Advisor, Community Health Center, Inc.
* Pam Bolton, Head of Partnerships, Tech Care for All
* Keegan Checkett, Co-Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Partners In Health; Director of International Emergency Medicine, University of Chicago
* James Clarke, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Ghana Medical Director
* 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
* Jacqueline Edwards, Chief Operating Officer, Medic Mobile
* Molly Forrest Franke, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
* Kaveh Khoshnood, Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health; Program Director, BA-BS/MPH Program in Public Health, Yale University
* Regan Marsh, Director of Clinical Systems, Partners In Health; Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
* Julius Mbeya, Managing Director, Lwala Community Alliance
* Lynn Murphy Michalopoulos, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work
* Roger Ohanesian, Founder and President, Armenian Eye Care Project
* Daniel Palazuelos, Senior Health and Policy Advisor for Community Health Systems, Partners In Health; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
* Claire Qureshi, Senior Advisor, Frontline Delivery, Office of the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Health in Agenda 2030 and for Malaria
* 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
* Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye Hospital, NYSASDRI, India; Unite For Sight Partner
* Adam Schwartz, Health Program Manager, BRAC USA
* Mahek Shah, Senior Researcher, Harvard Business School
* Andrea Tenner, Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of California at San Francisco
* Sten Vermund, Dean and Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
* Seth Wanye, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Friends Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
* Additional Presenters TBA
Health Policy & Advocacy
* Kelly Brownell, Robert L. Flowers Professor of Public Policy and Director of the World Food Policy Center at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
* Sam Daley-Harris, Founder and Principal, Civic Courage, A Program of RESULTS Educational Fund
* Dan Pawson, Vice President, Global Health Strategies
* Linda Reinstein, President and Co-Founder, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization
* Michael Schmoyer, Assistant Deputy Secretary for National Security and Director, Office of Security & Strategic Information (OSSI), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
* Additional Presenters TBA
Health Systems Strengthening
* Neelam Sekhri Feacham, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco
* Additional Speakers TBA
Implementation Science
* Paul Park, Director of Implementation, NCD Synergies, Partners In Health
* Additional Presenters TBA
Mental and Neurological Health Speakers
* Shin Daimyo, Senior Advisor for Mental Health, Partners In Health
* Additional Presenters TBA
Nursing & Global Health
* Patricia Davidson, Dean, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
* Jennifer Dohrn, Director, Office of Global Initiatives and WHO Collaborating Center in Advanced Practice Nursing, Columbia University School of Nursing
* Additional Presenters TBA
Other Non-Communicable Diseases Speakers
* Aron Rose, Bioethics Chair, Cancer Diagnosis and Care in Sub-Saharan Africa, a White House Initiative; Associate Clinical Professor, Yale University School of Medicine; Associate Clinical Professor, Yale University School of Nursing Faculty; Program in Bioethics, Yale University
* Additional Presenters TBA
Philanthropy, Investment, and Organizational Management Speakers
* Jane Aronson, Pediatrician; President and CEO, Worldwide Orphans Foundation
* Jana Zindell, Chief Strategy Officer, Ubuntu Pathways
* Additional Presenters TBA
Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health Speakers
* Annette Cycon, Founder and Director MotherWoman and GPS: Group Peer Support
* Alicia Ely Yamin, Member, UN Secretary General’s Independent Accountability Panel for the Global Strategy in Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health; Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
* Additional Presenters TBA
Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Speakers
* Audrey Chapman, Professor of Community Medicine and Healthcare; Healey Chair in Medical Humanities and Bioethics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
* Naz Karim, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Director of Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Brown University
* Shubha Kumar, Assistant Professor & Director of Programs, University of Southern California (USC)
* Kala Mehta, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
* Shira Mitchell, Statistician, Mathematica Policy Research
* Ian Saldanha, Assistant Professor, Brown University School of Public Health
* Additional Presenters TBA
Social Entrepreneurship Speakers
* Paul Ellingstad, Managing Partner, PTI Advisors
* Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
* Cleveland Justis, Executive Director, Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management
* Matt Nash, Center Director, Social Entrepreneurship Accelator at Duke (SEAD), Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE)
* Nnamdi Oranye, Author, Disrupting Africa: The Rise and Rise of African Innovation
* Mark Roithmayr, CEO, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
* Additional Presenters TBA
Social Media, Communications, and Marketing Speakers
* Charlotte Cole, Executive Director, Blue Butterfly Collaborative
* Alexandra Kendall, Vice President, Global Health Strategies
* Additional Presenters TBA
Technology in Global Health Speakers
* Bobby Jefferson, VP, Chief Technology Officer, DAI Global Health
* Ashok (AJ) Kumar, Chief Scientific Officer, Jana Care; formerly Harvard University
* Gene Kwan, Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine; Health and Policy Advisor, Partners In Health
* Sri Muthu, CEO and Founder, HealthVenture
* Jake Porway, Founder and Executive Director, DataKind
* Arti Varanasi, President & CEO, Advancing Synergy, LLC
* Additional Presenters TBA
Unintentional Injury Prevention
* 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
* Rebecca Wear Robinson, Founder and President, Make the Minute Matter
* Additional Presenters TBA
University Education Initiatives in Global Health and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers
* David Bouslough, Assistant Clinical Professor, Director, Division of International Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Director of Life Support Education, Clinical Advisor for Emergency Medicine, Emergency Preparedness, and Palliative Care, LBJ Tropical Medical Center, American Samoa
* Patricia Davidson, Dean, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
* Ted London, Senior Research Fellow, Scaling Impact Initiative, William Davidson Institute; Adjunct Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
* Marie H. Martin, Assistant Director, Education and Training, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health; Research Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
* Harsh Sule, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Associate Director, Office of Global Health, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
* Additional Presenters TBA