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2009 Past Conference Schedule

Conference Program Book With Room Locations Will Be Provided At Conference Check-In

Saturday, April 18, 2009

7:45am-8:15am Opening

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

8:15am-9:00am Keynote Address

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

9:05-9:50am Keynote Address

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

9:55-10:40am Keynote Address

• "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
  

10:45am - 1:00pm

• Option 1 (add-on): (separate registration required, registration now closed)
  

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.

Social Innovation & Health Delivery 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 Entrepreneurship and Public Health: Scaling Up Innovation," 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; Unite For Sight Partner
• "Creating Lasting Change," Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children
• Discussion and Q&A:
  • Why is innovation important?
  • How do you design innovative health programs?
  • How do you lead and manage health care delivery in resource-poor settings?
  • What makes health programs succeed?
  • What works, and what doesn't work?

• Option 2: Other Concurrent Sessions (10:45-12pm) and Lunch Break (12-1pm - Eat in area restaurants. Lunch is not included.)

Session #AB:The Health of Vulnerable Children

• "Holistic Children's Services For Orphans Abroad," Jane Aronson,MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
• "Pathways to Empathetic Psychosocial Care for Families Affected by HIV/AIDS, Poverty, and Violence in Southern Africa - Developing Local Capacity For Sustainable Intervention Practices on the Community Level," Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders
• "Why We Need Schools for Blind Girls,” Ajit Sinha, MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, All India Ophthalmological Society; Founder, Bihar Netraheen Parishad School For Blind Girls; Unite For Sight Partner

Session #AS: Strengthening the Capacity of Families and Communities

• "Strengthening the Capacity of Families and Communities: A Foundation's Experience in Addressing Blindness," Steve Hilton, President and CEO, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
  
• "Partnering to Achieve Greater Effectiveness in Preventing Blindness," Kathy Spahn, President and CEO, Helen Keller International
  
• "Partnerships for Ensuring Quality Education for All," Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School For The Blind
  

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1:00-2:30pm Sessions

Session #AB: The Cutting Edge in Global Health

• Afternoon Keynote Address (40 minutes): "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
• "A Vaccine To Prevent AIDS: When and How," John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
• "Improvement in Adherence Counseling and Management of Patients on ART in Developing Countries as a Result of Clinical Mentoring Programs," Katie Graves-Abe, Director of Operations, International Center for Equal Healthcare Access

Session #AC: The New Wave? Microfinance and Microfranchising in Health

• "'Patient' Capital for Global Health," Ajay Nair, MBBS MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund
  
• "Microfinance and Microfranchise to Improve Health," Myka Reinsch, Director of Innovations, Freedom From Hunger and Daniel Mensah, BPharm(Hons), MBA, Social Franchise Manager, Freedom from Hunger
  
• "The HealthStore Foundation: Improving Access to Life-Saving Medicines through Micro-Franchising," Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation
  
• "Global Health Through Microfranchise & Other Social Innovations," Warner Woodworth, PhD, Professor of Organizational Leadership & Strategy, Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management

Session #AS: Women’s Health and Rights

• "Women's Global Health and Human Rights," Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, MPhil, CHES, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Global Health Program Director, New York Medical College School of Public Health
  
• "Taking Lifesaving Care Closer to Women and Their Families,"Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University
  
• "Reproductive Health Interventions as a Response to the Post-Election Violence in Kenya," Sandra Krause, Director, Reproductive Health Program, Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children
• "Nutritional Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (NIDS) Amongst Women Overtaking AIDS in India,"Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

Session #L1: The Millennium Villages Model

• "Health in the Millennium Villages: Scaling Up In Unexpected Ways," Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health & Economic Development; Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Project
  
• "Defining Innovation in mHealth: Opportunities and Challenges of Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for mHealth at the Millennium Village Project," Daniela Sloninsky, MPH, mHealth Programme Assistant, Millennium Villages Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University
• "The Himalayan Cataract Project and Millennium Village Project Partnership," John Welling, MD Candidate,The Ohio State University College of Medicine
  
• "Fueling Vehicles of Change With Star Power," Philippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi
  

Session #L2: Global Health Advocacy

• "Academician or Advocate? Making Scientific Research and Human Rights Fit," Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, Associate Professor, Tulane University; Vice President, Doctors for Global Health
  
• "Tools for Effective Global Health Advocacy," Natasha Bilimoria, Executive Director, Friends of the Global Fight
  
• "The Use of Imagery:  How it Promotes and Hampens Global Health Advocacy?" Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
  
• "Bringing Global Health Research Home," Jennifer Chow, MPH, Program Manager, Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research, Research!America
  

Session #L3: Children's and Women's Health

• "Neonatal Resuscitation Capabilities in Nepal," Christina Nelson, MD, Pediatrics & Preventive Medicine, University of Colorado
  
• "Community-Based Participatory Research in Maternal Health in the Dominican Republic," Jennifer Foster, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Emory University
• "The Development of School-Based Health Services in Nicaragua," Patricia Ryan-Krause, MS, RN, MSN, CPNP, Associate Professor, Yale School of Nursing
• "Partnering to Create a Center of Excellence for Children with Autism in West Africa: Successes and Challenges," Molly Ola Pinney, Founder and CEO, The Global Autism Project

Session #L5: Community-Based Health Strategies

• "Using the Community Tool Box to Build Global Capacity for Community Health and Development," Stephen Fawcett, PhD, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre, University of Kansas
  
• "A Model for Sustainable Diabetic Eye Care in the Developing World," Sudeep Pramanik, MD, MBA
• "Translation Research on Diabetes Care Among Samoans," Stephen McGarvey, PhD, MPH, Professor of Community Health, Director, International Health Institute, Brown University
  
• "Community Eye Health Program Can Improve The Quality of Life of Poor: An Action Research Study from Orissa, India," Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India; Unite For Sight Partner

Session #L21:Best and Worst Practices: Responsibile Health Interventions

• “Why Follow-Up Is A Must For All Medical Care,” Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
  
• "Speech and Hearing Outcomes Following Palatoplasty on Surgical Missions in Ecuador," Rebecca Maine, MD Candidate, University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine
  
• “Couching: A “Worst Practice” That Battles Modern Surgical Care in Northern Ghana" Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
• "Balancing Community-Identified Needs with Responsible Interventions: Implementing a Gender-Based Violence Program into the Honduran Health Alliance," Bonzo Reddick, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Robyn Dayton, MPH Candidate, University of North Carolina School of Public Health

Session #L31: Culture and Trust in Global Health

• "Towards a Framework for Culturally-Sensitive Psychosocial Interventions in the Population of Sudanese Displaced," Brian Neff, M.A.L.D., The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
  
• "Ngudo Nga Zwinepe: Developing Trust, International Partnerships, and Community Buy-In Through Photovoice," Tim Cunningham, Graduate Nursing Student, University of Virginia
  
• "Foto Vwa: The Power of Photography to Amplify Voice," Kyle Denison Martin, DO/MPH Candidate, Michigan State University
  
• "Eye To Eye: Introducing Cultural Communication Between Liberian Refugee Children and United States Children," Karen King, MA, Teacher, Reed Intermediate School, Newtown, Connecticut

Session #W12: U.S. Health Care Delivery

• "U.S. Life Expectancy: Why are We #28," Sarah Burd-Sharps, Co-director, American Human Development Project
  
• "Project HEALTH: Mobilizing College Volunteers to Change Healthcare Delivery," Rebecca Onie, JD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTH
  
• "Vision Loss Prevention and Eye Health Promotion: A Public Health Approach," Jinan Saaddine, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Vision Health Initiative Team Leader, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
• "Eye Care America: Providing Eye Care Needs For America's Uninsured by MDs," David J. Palmer, MD, Chair, Eye Care America-Senior Eye Care Program, American Academy of Ophthalmology Foundation

Session #W16: Surgery and Global Health

• "The Surgeon's Role in Global Public Health," Kathleen Casey, MD, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons
  
• "Demonstration of Impact of Partnerships in Developing Countries Through Economic Modeling" Scott Corlew, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast
  
• "Improved Instruments for Trachoma Surgery," Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems
  
• "The Future of Glaucoma Surgery: Hope For The Developing World?" Bruce Shields, MD, Chair Emeritus, Yale Department of Ophthalmology

Session #W17: The Role of Universities in Global Health Improvement

• "What is the Role of Universities in Developing and Educating The Next Global Health Leaders?" Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
  
• "Strengthening Health Systems: The Role of Universities in Global Health," Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration; Director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health
  
• "Educating Leaders for Health Management ," Sosena Kebede, MD, MPH, Program Director, Yale-Clinton Foundation, Jimma-Yale MHA Program
  
• "An Innovative Hospital Management Training Program in Albania" Frank Phillips, Director, International Healthcare Program, Rush University Medical Center
  

Session #W19: Global Health Service and Volunteerism

• "Global Service as a Means to Restore America's Standing: Remaking Ourselves As We Remake Our World," Edward O'Neil, Jr, MD, Omni Med
  
• “The Importance of Ethical, High Quality Volunteering,” James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner and Medical Advisory Board Member
  
• "The Health-Peace Connection: Assessing the Need for Pre-deployment Training for Medical Volunteers and its Proposed Effect on Coexistence," Sarah Stanlick, MA, Research Associate, Harvard University
  
• "Interplast: The Evolution from Volunteer Medical Missions to Surgical Capacity Building in the Global South," Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast

Session #W20: Training Students To Be New Leaders in Global Health

• "Unite For Sight in Asikuma, Ghana," Samantha Diamond, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Asikuma Breman, Ghana
  
• "Volunteering in Ghana: Above and Beyond My Expectations," Nicole Caslow, BA; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
  
• "Eight Moments:  Writings from a Healthcare Journey Across Ghana," Christina Hueschen, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Asikuma Breman, Ghana
  
• "Unite For Sight in Honduras," James Baraldi, BS Candidate, Temple University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
  
• "Vision of Hope: Empowerment and Service in Ghana," Munaf Kachwala, BA Candidate, University of Maryland, and Jared Scheff, BA Candidate, Towson University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
  
• "Unite For Sight and Kalinga Eye Hospital in Orissa, India," Nicholas Aurelio, BA Candidate, University of Southern California, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Orissa, India
  
• "Duke Medical School Abroad Elective: From Bihar to New Delhi," Ninita Brown, MD Candidate, Duke University School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in New Delhi and Bihar, India
  
• "Crazy Rickshaw -- A Medical Student's Wild Ride Through the Depths of India," Ajaz Siddiqui, MD, Intern, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India

Session #W22: Strategies For Screening and Treating Eye Disease

• "Prevalence of Blindness in West African Adults: The Tema Eye Survey," Don Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
  
• "Methods For Glaucoma Screening," Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis
• "Advances in Visual Function Assessment for Glaucoma," 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
• "Low Vision Rehabilitation," David Parke, MD, Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine; Director of Low Vision Rehabilitation, The Yale Eye Center and Masonic Healthcare

Session #W23: Global Health Advocacy Workshop

• "Global Health Advocacy: How to Get Real RESULTS Against Diseases of Poverty," Ken Patterson, RESULTS Educational Fund, Global Grassroots Manager

Session #W28: Cutting Edge Health Strategies in Latin America

• "Empowerment: The Key To Transforming Communities - Guatemalan Experiences," Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health
  
• "AIDS in the Dominican Republic's Sugercane Batey Communities," Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, The Batey Relief Alliance"
• "HIV Prevention and Detection Pilot Project in the Sugarcane Plantation Bateyes of Eastern Dominican Republic," Sabrina Hermosilla, MIA, MPH, MS, Columbia University International Family AIDS Program
  
• "NCC and the L3C: State of the Art Cancer Care in Latin America," Thomas Roane, Senior Vice President - Healthcare Alliances, National Cancer Coalition

2:35-4:05pm Sessions

Session #AB: Health Care From The Grassroots

• "Health Care From The Grassroots," (40 minutes) 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
  
• "Unlocking the Power of Social Norms: Innovative Strategies for Community-Led Transformation in Health and Development," Gannon Gillespie, Director of US Operations, Tostan
• "It Takes a Girl to Raise A Village: Rethinking Education in the Developing World," Philippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi
  

Session #AC: The Power of Ideas: Improving Health Through Social Entrepreneurship

• "Finding, Supporting, and Nurturing Social Enterprises," Ajay Nair, MBBS, MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund
• "Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems," Leah Barrett, MPA, Program Officer, VillageReach
  
• "The Power of Public/Private "Hybrids"," Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers
  
• "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; Unite For Sight Partner and Medical Advisory Board Member

Session #AS: Food Security and Health

• "The Impact of the Food and Nutrition Crisis on the Global Health Agenda," Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children
  
• "Food Security and the Right to Health," Robert Lawrence, MD, Center for A Livable future Professor; Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy & International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health Sciences; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  
• "Mitigating The Impacts of the Food Crisis in Rural Haiti: Lessons Learned From Hopital Albert Schweitzer's Emergency Nutrition Program," Erlantz Hyppolite, MD, Coordinator of Maternal and Child Health Program, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
  
• "Model For The Social Audit of Large Scale Agro-Biotechnology Initiatives: Accounting For Ethical, Social, Cultural, and Commercialization Issues," Obidimma Ezezika, PhD, MEM, Senior Research Fellow, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto

Session #L1: Ethical Considerations in Public Health

• "A New Legal Theory for International Law – The “Health Authority to Protect” Doctrine," Jeannette L. Austin, JD, MPP, Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School
  
• "Microbicide Clinical Trials: A Case Study for Ethical Examination of International Clinical Trials in HIV/STI Prevention," Clair Kaplan, MSN, RN, APRN, MHS, MT, Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Nursing
  
• "Pain and Policy: The Battle with Needless Suffering," Diederik Lohman, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch
  
• "Do Free Pens Really Influence Physicians' Prescriptions?: The Ethics of For-Profit Pharmaceuticals and the Medical Community," Matthew Paul,MD, Danbury Eye Physicians

Session #L2: Emerging Disease

• "Socioemergence: Cultural and Political Dimensions of Emergent Viral Disease in Equatorial Africa's Forests," Rebecca Hardin, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
• "Climate, Culture, and Trachoma," Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner and Medical Advisory Board Member
• "Molecular Mechanisms of Parasite Immune Evasion," Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
• "Challenges and Potential of Genetic Manipulation of Insect Vectors of Disease," Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Session #L3: Access to Care: New Technologies and Strategies

• "Access to Essential Medicines: Moving Beyond AIDS, TB and Malaria," Suerie Moon, PhD Candidate & Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  
• "Development of a Business Model for the Implementation of a Sustainable Point of Use Water Filter Program in the Dominican Republic," Roger Lewis, PhD, CIH, Division Director, Environmental Health, Saint Louis University School of Public Health
  
• "Portable, Handheld Devices for Diagnosis of Cysticercosis in The Field ," Raquel Perez-Castillejos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• "Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Deliver Affordable Eyeglasses and Eye Care," David Grosof, President, OptiOpia

Session #L21: Rights-Based Approaches to U.S. Health Care Reform

• "A Rights-Based Approach to US Health Care Reform: Realizing the Highest Attainable Standard of Health Through a Focus on Underlying Determinants," Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, International Development and Globalization Fellow, Columbia University; Scholar, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University
• "Health and Social Justice," Jennifer Ruger, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Global Health, Yale School of Public Health; Co-Director of the Yale/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion, Policy and Research; Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Investigator, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
  
• "Women's Health Rights as Human Rights: Implications and Challenges in the U.S. Context," Martha Davis, Professor at Northeastern University School of Law; Co-Director of Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy
• "Toward Equity and Accountability in U.S. Health Care: 10 Human Rights Principles for Health Care Financing,"Anja Rudiger, PhD, Human Right to Health Program Director, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative/National Health Law Program

Session #L31: You and Global Health

• "Do it Yourself Humanitarianism: Methods and Models," Chris Stout, PsyD, Founding Director, Center for Global Initiatives; Clinical Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
  
• "Atrocities and Social Entrepreneurship," Zachary Kaufman, JD Candidate, Yale Law School; DPhil Candidate in International Relations, Oxford University
• "Mission Driven," Robin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
• "The International Efforts of The American Academy of Pediatrics," Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health
  

Session #W16: Why Are Millions Needlessly Blind?

• "Vision 2020 Global Initiative - Implemenation and Lessons Learnt," Ivo Kocur, MA, MSc, Team Leader, Prevention of Blindness and Deafness, World Health Organization
• “Quality Eye Care In The Poorest State in India,” Satyajit Sinha,MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India; Unite For Sight Partner
• "A Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) Study Regarding Eye Care Among Parents in Delhi," Manish Sharma, MBBS, Consultant Pediatric Ophthalmologist, Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital; Unite For Sight Partner
  
• "Obstacles in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Glaucoma in the Developing World," Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine
  

Session #W17: Innovative Approaches and Challenges

• "Common Vocabulary: A Shared Understanding For Global Health," Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health & Economic Development; Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Project
• "Current Patterns in Pre-hospital Trauma Care in Kampala, Uganda and the Feasibility of a Modified First-aid Course for Lay-First Responders," Sudha Jayaraman, MD, MSc, Resident Physician and Fellow, UCSF Depts of Surgery & Global Health Sciences
  
• "Dissecting HIV/AIDS Curricula: Limitations and Critical Weaknesses," John Collins, PhD Candidate, Educational Theory and Policy/Comparative and International Education, Pennsylvania State University
• "Communication Challenges in Mass Drug Administration in Tanzania: Thinking with Reciprocity," Ari Samsky, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University

Session #W19: The Burden of Illness and Health Strategies

• "Key Predictors of Global Health, Life Expectancy, and the Burden of Illness: A New World Model," M. Harvey Brenner,PhD, Chair and Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences School of Public Health University of North Texas Health Science Center; Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "Tobacco Harm Reduction: The Best Hope for Averting Deaths From Smoking in the Developing World," Carl V. Phillips, MPP, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta; Editor-in-Chief, Epidemiologic Perspectives and Innovations
• "Innovations in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative," Carol Pandak, Ed.D, Manager, Division of PolioPlus, The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
• "Eye Care Services in Liberia: The Post War Challenges," Kartee Karloweah, ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner

Session #W20:  Entrepreneurial Volunteering: Above and Beyond International Service

• "The Future of Change: Entrepreneurial Student Volunteering," Abraar Karan, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India and Program Development Fellow in Honduras
• "Social Change: From Observation to Implementation," Sohani Amarasekera, BS Candidate, University of Pennsylvania; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
  
• "Quality of Life and the Importance of Sight: Ghanaian Versus American Utility Values," Blair Irwin, MBA, MS, MD Candidate, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
  
• "Accessibility to Health Care: A Survey-Based Study of the Barriers Facing Patients in Receiving Eye Health Care in Rural Ghana," Amogh Sivarapatna, BS Candidate, University of Virginia; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
  
• "The Prevalence, Use, and Perceived Effects of Complementary Alternative Medicines and Treatments in Bihar, India," Kristin Ow Chapman, MD Candidate, NYU School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Bihar, India
• "Eye Care Community Outreach: The Ghanaian Experience," Taygan Yilmaz, MPH, Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
  
• "Eye Care with Unite For Sight in India and Ghana: A Presentation With Video," Eric Einstein, BA Candidate, Colorado College; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai and Bihar, India and Accra, Ghana
  

Session W#22: Workshop: How To Create An NGO

• "Workshop: How To Create An Organization To Do Community Work Abroad," Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Session W#28: Global Health Training Programs

• "Developing an Interdisciplinary Master of Science in Global Health at Duke University," Lisa Croucher, Assistant Director, Education and Training, Global Health Institute, Duke University
  
• "Educating Future Physicians in Social Medicine and Health Equity," Katie Houghton,Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
• "The Fogarty (NIH) International Clinical Research Training Programs," Peter F. Wright, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease and International Medicine, Dartmouth
  
• "Global Health and International Affairs: Meeting the Challenge," Randall Kuhn, Director, Global Health Affairs Program, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

Session W#21: Workshop: Design and Innovation in Health Care

• "House Calls: Design Thinking for Innovation in Health Care," Harry West, PhD, Vice President of Strategy and Innovation, Continuum Design Consultancy
  

4:10-5:40pm Sessions

Session #AB: Addressing Chronic Disease and Long-Term Health Needs

• "The Need For A Global Shift in Global Health: The Emerging Focus on Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases in Developing Countries," Michelle McMurry, Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative, The Aspen Institute
  
• "Cost of Iron Deficiency: Cognitive and Behavioral Consequences for Women and Children," Laura Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
  
• "Innovative Programs to Address the Burden of Diabetes in Low Resource Economies," Anil Kapur, MD, Managing Director, World Diabetes Foundation
  
• "Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer: An Epidemic Fueled by Global Indifference," Samuel So, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of Medicine

Session #AC: Innovative Models of Health Care

• "Public-Private Innovation: A Call To Action," Dondeena Bradley, PhD, Vice President, Corporate Nutrition, PepsiCo
  
• "Cuba: Care-Giver to the World," 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), and Marcelino Rio Torres, Director of the National Eye Institute in Havana, Cuba
  
• "Health In The Urban Slums: Let the People Lead the Way," Pamela Lynam, MD, Country Director, Kenya, JHPIEGO
  
• "Women are Key to Community Health," Jill Lester, President and CEO, The Hunger Project

Session #AS: Technology and Global Health

• "Building Sustainable Strategic Information Systems in Low-Resource Countries," Bobby Jefferson, Healthcare Management Information System Advisor; Senior IT Advisor - HIV/AIDS, Futures Group International
  
• "Remote Prescriptive Learning - A Cost-Effective Tool to Increase Healthcare Capacity in the Developing World," Colleen Kraft, MD, President/Virginia Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
  
• "The Community Can Help Itself: Using Mobile Phones to Revolutionize Healthcare Delivery," Yuri Ostrovsky, Chief Technology Officer, ClickDiagnostics, Inc.
  
• "Global Health, The Internet, and the Global Development Commons: What Does The Future Hold?" Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

Session #L1: Panel - Advice From The Experts: Careers in Global Health

• Scott Corlew, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast
• Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD Candidate, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health & Economic Development; Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Project
• Ivo Kocur, MA, MSc, Team Leader, Prevention of Blindness and Deafness, World Health Organization
• Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders
• Rebecca Onie, JD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTH
• Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
  

Session #L2: Philanthropy and Investment Models: What Nonprofits Should Know

• "Lessons From Philanthrocapitalism," Matthew Bishop, Chief Business Writer/US Business Editor, The Economist
• "Investing in Sight - Where Will The Capital Come From?" Shari Berenbach, MBA, President & CEO, Calvert Foundation
  
• "Private Finance Models That Support Public Health Efficiency," Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US Agency for International Development
• "A Model for Cooperative Investment in the Developing World," Minesh Patel, MD, Resident Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine

Session #L5: Community Health Education

• "Hand of Hope (Here Bolo): A Peer Education Tool for Low Literacy Settings," Annie de Groot, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Brown University of Medicine (Adjunct); Founder and Scientific Director, GAIA Vaccine Foundation
• "The Community Health Worker as Health Educator in Southwestern Ethiopia," Heather Lanthorn, PhD Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health, and Kat Hartman, Social Policy Intern, Unicef Botswana and MFA Candidate, University of Michigan
• "Illustrations as a Patient Education Tool to Improve Recall of Postoperative Cataract Medication Regimes in the Developing World," M. Scott Hickman, MD, Lawrence Eye Care Associates, P.A., Lawrence, KS
  
• "The Use of Visual Aid in Informed Consent for Cataract Surgery in an Indigenous, South Indian Population," Abraar Karan, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India

Session #L21: What Frames Health Strategies?

• "The African Health Professions Brain Drain Survey and Policy Implications," Edward Mensah, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
  
• "Building Mid-level HCW Capacity To Counter Doctor Migration in Nepal," Stephen Knoble, MHS, PA-C, Training Consultant, Nick Simons Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal
  
• "Religious Teaching and Identity Construction in the Context of HIV Infection in Three Regions of Senegal," David Ansari, Intermural Research Training Fellow, National Institute on Aging
  
• "The American Medical Model - Are We Right To Export It?" Emmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue Committee

Session #L31: The Importance and Facilitation of Global Collaborations

• "Making the World Smaller: Teleconferencing Technologies in Medical Education," Michael C. Wu, MD, Cornea and External Disease, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington School of Medicine
  
• "Connectivity & Health Information Needs: Alternative Approaches," Thomas Cook, PT, PhD, Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health
• "Collaborative Initiative Between Researchers and Community Representatives to Facilitate Community Understanding of Interim Analyses in an HIV Prevention Trial," Lisa Noguchi, CNM, MSN, Director of Operations, Microbicide Trials Network, MWRI/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  
• "Global Collaborations to Improve Worker Safety on Roads," Jane Hingston, Global Collaborations, National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
  

Session #W12: University Global Health Partnerships

• "Global Network For Health: A Novel Approach to Learning and Diagnostics," H. Dean Sutphin, PhD, Assistant Vice President for International Health and Appalachian Outreach, Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
  
• "A Model Program for International Collaborations in Latin America," Javier Escobar, MD, MSc, Associate Dean for Global Health, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  
• "An Innovative Approach to Addressing Global Health Disparities through a Global Health Leadership Training Program in Latin America," Dixie Tooke-Rawlins, D.O., Dean and Executive Vice President, Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
  
• "This is Global Health: Temple University's International Education Opportunities Senegal," Shannon Marquez, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Temple University Center for Global Health

Session #W16: Innovative Approaches To Overwhelming Need

• “Health in Africa: Perspectives From The Only Ophthalmologist For 2 Million People in Northern Ghana," Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner and Medical Advisory Board Member
  
• “How To Train Community Eye Health Workers in Villages and Refugee Camps: The Impact Of A Community-Based Model,” Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
  
• “Community Eye Health in Ghana”, Kwame Kisse Dennis Baah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
  
• "A2Z – The USAID Micronutrient and Child Blindness Project: Fostering Innovative Approaches to Saving Sight," Roshelle Payes, Child Blindness Manager, A2Z Project, Academy for Educational Development

Session #W17: Community-Based Strategies in Low-Resource Settings

• "Assessing And Addressing Primary Care Service Delivery Challenges in Rural, Low-Resource Settings - Lessons Learned at the Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti," Fritz Gaetan Heyliger, MD, Coordinator of Primary Care Services, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
  
• "Gender Differences in HIV Testing, ARV Enrollment, and Treatment Adherence: Lessons Learned at the Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti," Darwin Dorestan, MD, Coordinator of HIV and TB Programs, Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
  
• "Community-Based Projects To Improve Quality of Life For People Living With HIV/AIDS," Julia Love, Director of Philanthropy,The Resource Foundation
• "Establishing Community-Based Teams,"Robert C. Morris, Jr. Vice President, Partners International Foundation

Session #W19: Women’s Health

• "Assessing and Improving Emergency Obstetric Care in Northern Nigeria," Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health,
• "Overcoming Barriers to Implementation of Evidence Based Practices To Reduce Maternal Mortality in a Rural Nicaraguan Community," Janice K. Smith, MD, MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health at University of Texas Medical Branch
  
• "Success of Laproscopic Sterilisation in Controlling Population Growth in Eastern India: My Experience of 30 Years," Renu Sinha, MBBS, Former Head of the Obs and Gynea Department of Patna Medical College Hospital; Former President of Bihar Obs and Gynea Society
• "Breast Milk + Grassroots: How Over 1500 Moms From Alaska to Hawaii Donated Their Extra Breast Milk To Help Infants in Africa," Jill Youse, Founder, International Breast Milk Project

Session #W20: Young Leaders and Social Change

• "Target Commercial Sex Workers with Reproductive Health Services in Kampala, Uganda," Samantha Diamond, BA Candidate, Yale University
• "How Do You Evaluate Empowerment?: Community-Based Evaluation of Health Programs in Mali," Alison Cohen, BA Candidate, Brown University; Evaluation Advisor, Mali Health Organizing Project
  
• "The InfiniCan: Water Storage and Disaster Relief in Myanmar," Laura Bloomfield, MS Candidate, Stanford University
  
• "Translating Efficient Healthcare Practices from Cataract Surgery to Circumcision," Nupur Garg, MD Candidate, Yale University School of Medicine
  
• "Sport as a Vehicle for Global Health and Social Change," Meghan O. Mahoney, Manager of Operations, Sport in Society, Northeastern University
  
• "Addressing The Social and Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS Through Microlending in Rural Kenya," William Slikker and John Vorhies, MD Candidates, Stanford University School of Medicine
  
• "North Carolina Millennium Village Project: A Student Model," Rachel Puckett, BA Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Coordinator, UNC-Duke-Bennett Millennium Village Project
  

Session #W22: Workshop: Innovative Approaches to Educational Needs

• "Innovative Approaches: Meeting the Educational Needs of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired," Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School For The Blind

Session #W28: Global Health and Global Education

• "Creating a University-wide Interdisciplinary Curriculum in Global Health," Daniel D. Sedmak, MD, Director, Office of Global Health Education; Executive Vice Dean, College of Medicine; Executive Director, Health Sciences Center for Personalized Healthcare; Senior Associate Vice President, Office of Health Sciences, The Ohio State University
• "Duke-Engineering World Health: Biomedical Engineering Making a Difference in Developing World Hospitals," Robert Malkin, PhD, PE, Professor of Practice of Biomedical Engineering Director, Duke-Engineering World Health, Duke University
• "GHEC: Strength Through Consortia," Robin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
• "Social Science Research on HIV-AIDS in Russia: Integrating The Russian Federation Into The Global Research Community," Alexandra Vacroux, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  

Sunday, April 19, 2009

8:45am-9:35am Keynote Address

• "The Coming Revolution in Global Public Health," 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
  

9:40am-10:25am Keynote Address

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

10:30am-11:10am Plenary Panel: "Mobilizing Entrepreneurial Engagement: You and Global Health"

• Introduced and Moderated by 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
  • Panelists
    • Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration; Director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health
      
    • Kathleen Casey, MD, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons
      
    • James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
      
    • Abraar Karan, BA Candidate, Yale University; Unite For Sight Entrepreneurial Volunteer in Chennai, India

11:15am-12:00pm "Taking Action: Effective Global Health Delivery" Plenary Panel

• Introduced and Moderated By Al Sommer, MD, MHS, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Panelists
    • Scott Corlew, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast
    • Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
    • Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University
    • Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner

12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch

• Break For Lunch (eat in area New Haven restaurants)

1:00-2:30pm Sessions

Session #M: Human Rights and Public Health

• "War, Women, and Children," Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, MPhil, CHES, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Global Health Program Director, New York Medical College School of Public Health
  
• "Liberation Medicine in Education and Action Toward Global Health For All, Now!" Lanny Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Professor of Medicine in the Residency Programs of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Assistant Director, Human Rights Clinic for Victims of Torture, Montefiore; Founder and President, Doctors for Global Health
  
• "IDP and Refugee Health in Darfur and Chad: Challenges and Innovations to Meeting Basic Needs," Dayan Woldemichael, MD, Chad Country Director, International Medical Corps
  
• "Addressing Health Consequences of Gender-Based Violence in Papua New Guinea," Marie Skinnider, MD, Health Advisor, MSF Canada
  

Session #W19: Innovative Tools for Education

• "Open Access Education - Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge," Richard Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
  
• "Open Medicine: A Journal and a Social Movement," Jessica Cowan-Dewar, Editorial Fellow, Open Medicine
  
• "Innovative Tools for Education: Ophthalmic News and Education (O.N.E.™) Network," Brian Leonard, MD, University of Ottawa Eye Institute, Ottawa Hospital, Canada; American Academy of Ophthalmology
  
• "Experiences In International Education: Teaching The Course Management of Humanitarian Emergencies," Marisa Herran, MD, Co-Director Rainbow Center for Global Child Health , Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, CWRU

• "Femicide and Gang Violence: The Impact of Narcotics Trafficking Wars on Health Outcomes and Public Health Outreach in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico," Atrish Bagchi, BA Candidate, Princeton University
  
• "Delivering Primary Health Care and Education to the Brahmaputra River Islands," Gabriel Forrey, MPH Candidate, Yale School of Public Health
  
• "Dirty Water: The Challenges to Water Purification in a Panamanian Village," Mike Halperin, MPH Candidate, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  
• "Complexities of Student-Initiated Collaborations: Peer-Leadership Program for Indian Paramedics" Aditya Mantha, BA Candidate Stanford University
  
• "Evaluating Process and Subject Understanding of Informed Consent in Global Enterics Multicenter Study (GEMS)," Saira Khan, MD Candidate, Vanderbilt School of Medicine
  
• "Exploring Barriers to Care in an Ethiopian Cancer Population," Stuart Prenner, MD Candidate, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  
• "Linking Rural Communities to HIV Prevention and Care," Erica Mackey, Executive Director, Support for International Change
  
• "Projects and Programs from the MIT Mobility Lab," Amos Winter, PhD Candidate, MIT

Session #W28: Advances in Vision Care

• "Retinal Care in India: Needs and Solutions," Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
  
• "The Pathophysiology of Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis and Macular Degeneration," Santa Ono, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Deputy Provost of Emory University; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory Eye Center
  
• "Nutritional Management of Cataracts," Heskel Haddad, MD, Ophthalmologist; President, Optoed Corp, Inc.
  
• "Pharmaceutical Modulators of Retinal Photocoagulation Healing," Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine

2:35-4:05pm Sessions

Session #M: Global Health Inequalities and Little Discussed Health Needs

• "Global Health Inequalities: Why They Matter?" David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
  
• "Global Overview of Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS)," Susan Reef, MD, CDC
• "Child Injury Prevention: A Global Health Imperative," Adnan Hyder, MD, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, International Health; Deputy Director, Health Systems Program; Director, International Injury Research Unit, Johns Hopkins University
• "The Disability Rights Approach to Development," Michael Stein, JD, PhD, Executive Director, Harvard Project on Disability; Cabell Research Professor of Law, College of William and Mary School of Law
  

Session #W19: Public Health: Can Private Profits Be Harnessed For Public Gain?

• Michael Chu, MBA, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• David Bloom, PhD, Chair and Clarence James Gamble Profess or Economics and Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Session #W28: How To Eliminate Patient Barriers To Care

• "Building Capacity and Improving Care: Key Lessons Learned Through the Kaiser Permanente-Community Clinic Partnership," Cody Ruedaflores, Manager, Community Benefit Programs, Kaiser Permanente
• "Keratoprosthesis as an Option for the Developing World: A Review of Pilot Projects in Ethiopia and Sudan," Jared Ament, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmology & Corneal Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School; Harvard School of Public Health
• "An Innovative Program to Deliver Vision Care to Persons with Intellectual Disabilities – Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes," Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
• "Glaucoma and Volunteerism," Roger Martin, Patient Advocate

4:10-5:40pm Sessions

Session #M: Epidemiology of Human Rights

• "Protecting Children in Disaster and War: Efforts to Professionalize the Field," Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  
• "Eliciting Local Understandings of Child Protection and Well-Being," Alastair Ager, PhD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  
• "The Epidemiology of Human Rights," Lindsay Stark, Research Associate, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  
• "The Epidemiology of Human Rights," Lee Roberts, PhD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Session #W28: "A Killer Bargain, A Film"

• The film follows the process of textile production in northern India, from the growing of the cotton to its final sale as linens in Western stores...the filmmakers find open tanks of fuming chlorine gas, banned in Europe for 20 years and used as a poison gas in World War I.