Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health Conference Schedule

Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

A Weekend Conference of Ideas and Exchange of Best Practices to Improve Public Health and International Development

April 2008 Unite For Sight Conference at Yale University

Saturday, April 18, 2009

This is a preliminary schedule.

7:45am-8:10am

• Introductory Remarks by Jennifer Staple, Founder, President & CEO of Unite For Sight
• Presentation of Volunteer Service Awards
• Yale Welcome by Linda Lorimer, Vice President and Secretary, Yale University
  

8:15am-9:00am - Keynote Address By Dr. Susan Blumenthal

9:05-9:50am - Keynote Address

9:55-10:40am - Plenary Panel: Ethics, Quality, and Equality: Best and Worst Practices in Global Health

10:45am - 1:00pm

• Option 1 ($25 add-on): (separate registration required, limited space)
  Social Innovation & Health Delivery Lunch Forum - Creating, Leading, Designing, and Managing Health Care Delivery in Resource-Poor Settings. This special forum is for anyone interested in social innovation and health delivery, including students, physicians, nonprofits, public health professionals, and others interested or involved in global health or international development. Lunch is included.

  Lunch Forum Speakers and Discussants:

  • Keynote Address By 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
  • "Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship In Health Solutions," Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Director, mothers2mothers
  • "For-Profit Microfranchise Clinics," Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation
  • "Training Refugees and Villagers As Community Health Workers," James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
  • "Creating Lasting Change," Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children
    
    
• Option 2: Other Concurrent Panel (10:45-11:45am) and Lunch Break (11:45am-1pm - Eat in area New Haven restaurants. Lunch is _not_ included.)

1:00pm-2:30pm - Concurrent Sessions about all aspects of global health, international development, medicine, and social entrepreneurship

2:35pm-4:05pm - Concurrent Sessions about all aspects of global health, international development, medicine, and social entrepreneurship

4:10pm-5:40pm - Concurrent Sessions about all aspects of global health, international development, medicine, and social entrepreneurship

Sunday, April 19, 2009

This is a preliminary schedule.

8:45am-9:35am - Keynote Address By Dr. Jeffrey Sachs

9:40am-10:30am - Keynote Address By Dr. Sonia Sachs

10:35am-11:15am - Plenary Panel: Mobilizing Entrepreneurial Engagement - Contributing To Change On The Highest Level

11:20am-12:00pm - Plenary Panel: The Ethics of Global Health Delivery & Program Development

12:00pm-1:00pm - Break For Lunch (eat in area New Haven restaurants)

1:00pm-2:30pm - Concurrent Sessions about all aspects of global health, international development, medicine, and social entrepreneurship

2:35pm-4:05pm - Concurrent Sessions about all aspects of global health, international development, medicine, and social entrepreneurship

4:10pm-5:40pm - Concurrent Sessions about all aspects of global health, international development, medicine, and social entrepreneurship