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April 13-14, 2013 - Confirmed Conference Speakers

The conference will include 300 speakers who will present lectures and workshops about:

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The conference will include 300 speakers, and the confirmed speakers to date include:

Keynote Addresses

• "Harnessing the Power of Peer Pressure for Global Health," Tina Rosenberg, Journalist, The New York Times Fixes Column
• "Information Technology and the Revolution in Health Care," Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute, 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
• "The 1 Million Community Health Worker Campaign," Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University
• "The Origins of Health: Our Behavior and Our Environment," Al Sommer, MD, MHS, Dean Emeritus, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and University Distinguished Service Professor

Design Thinking Speakers

• "Design for Change in Behavior," Banny Banerjee, Director, Stanford ChangeLabs; Associate Professor, Design Group, Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University
• "The Next Step for Design: Social Entrepreneurship," Jon Kolko, Vice President of Design, MyEdu; Executive Director, Austin Center for Design
• "Weapons of Mass Design: Taking Products to Scale," Robert HJ Miros, CEO, 3rd Stone Design Inc.

Education Initiatives in Global Health Speakers

• "Global Mental Health and the Role of Academic Partnership," Christina Borba, PhD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School; The Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry; The MGH Schizophrenia Program (View Video)
• "Global Health, Education, and Development: Exploring the Critical Linkages," Brian Heuser, Assistant Professor of the Practice of International Education Policy, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University; Affiliated Faculty, Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH)
• "Connect. Heal. Empower: The Findings of a Proven School-Based Community Model for Public Health in Haiti," Elizabeth Warren, Program Manager, Hope for Haiti
• "International Medical Electives: The Critical Importance of Listening to Your Host," Christian Kraeker, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine, McMaster University

Environment, Energy, and Agriculture Speakers

• "Health in Harmony: Saving Forests, Saving Lives. A Five Year Assessment of Project ASRI’s Human and Environmental Health Work in Borneo, Indonesia," Christina Fitch, DO, MPH, Secretary, Board of Directors, Health in Harmony
• "The Relationships Between Human Health and Environmental Conservation: Case Studies from Madagascar," Christopher Golden, PhD, MPH, Ziff Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
• "Asset-Based Financing for Smallholder Farmers," Barrett Prinz, Director, Global Human Resources and Legal, One Acre Fund
• "Sustainable Innovation through Green Chemistry and Engineering," Julie Beth Zimmerman, PhD, Associate Professor of Green Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Associate Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University

Film, Photography, Art & Global Health Speakers

• "Nothing Like Chocolate," Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Professor, Sociology Department, University of California at Santa Barbara
• "NightWatch: How a Celebrity Campaign is Helping to Knock Out Malaria in Cameroon," Hannah Bowen, Research Manager, Malaria No More
• "Using Visual Methods to Investigate Urban Health Disparities," Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD, Core Investigator, VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VA Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
• "Enforcing the Right to Health of Haiti's Cholera Victims," Brian Concannon, Esq, Director, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
• "Patient Empowerment: How the Visually Impaired Can Become Better Advocates for Themselves...And for Their Service Providers," Joseph Lovett, Producer/Director, Going Blind
• "Designing Social Change Programs: Lessons from the Field," Bob McKinnon, President GALEWiLL Design; Director, the GALEWiLL Center for Opportunity & Progress
• "Twero: The Road to Health," Michael Otremba, MD, Postdoctoral Associate, Section of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine
• "A Doctor of My Own: A Documentary Film on Medical Education in Sub-Saharan Africa," Trisha Pasricha, MD Candidate, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Healthcare Delivery Models and Impact Measurement

• "Improving the Performance of Nurses in Egypt: Leadership and Management Capacity Building Improves Health Services and Outcomes," Abdo Hassan Al Swasy, Consultant for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aswan, Egypt; Management Sciences for Health
• "Tackling U.S. Health Disparities through Reverse Innovation: Community Health Workers Increase Value-Based Care," Heidi Behforouz, Medical and Executive Director, Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment (PACT) Project
• "The Cuban Health System Today," Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Senior Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University, Grenada; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC); formerly Special Assistant to the President of the US for Health Issues; Assistant Secretary General, United Nations (View Video) OR View Interview
• "Medicine in the Middle East: Post Arab Spring," Michael Brennan, Past President, American Academy of Ophthalmology; Ophthalmologist, Alamance Eye Center
• "Empowering Local Doctor Social Entrepreneurs: Perspectives From Ghana," James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Ghana Medical Director
• "Bringing Care to Where the Patient Is: Developing a Sustainable, Comprehensive, Community-Based Model of Depression Care in a Government-Run Health Care System," Shin Daimyo, MPH, Program Manager for Mental Health, Partners In Health
• "Housing and Health: A Holistic View," Peter Haas, Executive Director, AIDG
• "Partners In Health at 25: A Generation of Solidarity and Partnership," Ali Lutz, Senior Advisor, Partners In Health
• Charles MacCormack, Executive Chair, Health MDG Alliance
• "Empowering Health Entrepreneurs: The Living Goods Model," Mike Pezone, Partner Development Manager, Living Goods (View Video)
• "Achieving Patient Safety on a Global Scale: The Solutions for Patient Safety Case Study," Dianne Radigan, Vice President, Community Relations, Cardinal Health
• "Providing Healthcare Far From Home: Bioethical Dilemmas," Aron Rose, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Associate Clinical Professor, Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing, Yale University School of Nursing
• "Reaching the Unreached Using Vision Entrepreneurs," T. Senthil, Ophthalmologist, Pranav Eye Foundation, India
• "Strategies to Eliminate Barriers to Care for the Hardest-to-Reach Patients in Rural Villages," Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Friends Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
  

Health Policy & Advocacy

• "Trading in Global Health: The Politics of Innovation," Tahir Amin, Co-Founder and Director of Intellectual Property, I-MAK
• "Is There the Courage to Change the Nation’s Diet?" Kelly Brownell, Professor of Psychology, Epidemiology and Public Health; Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University
• "Bipartisan Advocacy for Global Health in Difficult Economic Times," Jennifer Key, Government Relations Manager, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• "Advancing Global Health and Human Rights in the Post-2015 Development Agenda," Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• "The Art of the Patient Narrative: Using Narrative to Enhance Diagnosis and Transform International Policy," Leana Wen, MD, MSc, Emergency Physician, Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals; Clinical Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Author, "When Doctors Don't Listen, How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests" (View Video)
• "Shifting Paradigm: How the BRICS are Reshaping Global Health and Development," Victor Zonana, Principal, Global Health Strategies

Maternal and Child Health Speakers

• "Improving Maternal and Child Health: A Look at Community Level Interventions that Save Lives," Barbara Deller, Senior Maternal and Newborn Health Technical Advisor, MCHIP/Jhpiego; Faculty Associate, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "State of the World's Children: A Tragedy in the Making," Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
• "Helping Babies Breathe: Neonatal Care for Resource-Limited Settings," Sara Berkelhamer, MD, Helping Babies Breathe Planning Committee Member, American Academy of Pediatrics; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University
• "Reducing Pre-Eclampsia Morbidity and Mortality in Low-Resource Settings Through the Urine Congo Red Dot (CRD) Test," Irina Buhimschi, MD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science
• "Clinical and Community Action to Address Postpartum Hemorrhage Plus," Claire Cole, MPH, Technical Documentation Advisor, Pathfinder International
• "Community Transformation: Using Community-Based Methods to Create Sustainable Change in Maternal and Child Health," Jacqueline Cutts, Founding President and CEO, Safe Mothers, Safe Babies
• "The Global Toll of Preterm Birth: Strengthening Prevention and Care of Prematurity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries," Christopher Howson, PhD, March of Dimes Foundation
• "Factors Influencing Neonatal Mortality in Rural Ghana," Colleen Kraft, MD, FAAP Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute; Pediatric Program Director, Carilion Clinic-Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
• "Safe Babies: Building Agency in a Rural Kenyan Community," James Nardella, Executive Director, Lwala Community Alliance
• "Reversing the Trend of Separating Infants and Mothers After Delivery at a USA Academic Center and the Impact on Breastfeeding Rates," Maureen Padilla, DNP, RNC-OB, NEA-BC, Administrative Director of Women's and Infant's Services, Harris Health System, Ben Taub General Hospital
• "Friends of Low-Cost IVF: Empowering Infertile Women Globally," Pasquale Patrizio, Professor of Obestrics and Gynecology, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Fertility Center
• "Strengthening Maternal Child Health in Tajikistan by Linking Community and Facility-Based Interventions through Community-Managed Transport Systems," Ramesh Singh, Health Program Manager, Mercy Corps
• "Eliminating Pediatric AIDS, One Mother at a Time," Robin Smalley, Co-Founder/International Director, mothers2mothers International
• "We Care Solar: Bringing Light to Darkened Deliveries," Laura Stachel, MD, MPH, Co-Founder and Executive Director, WE CARE Solar

Non-Communicable Diseases Speakers

• "Challenges and Strategies for Assessing Mental Health in Cross-Cultural Contexts," Judith Bass, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Applied Mental Health Research Group, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (View Video)
• "Let's Close the Billion-Person Treatment Gap for Common Mental Disorders: Rethinking Delivery, Knowledge, and Mental Capital," Gary Belkin, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Director, Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine; Senior Director for Psychiatric Services, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (View Video)
• "Glaucoma Care in West Africa: Challenges and Opportunities," Leon Herndon, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology Duke Glaucoma Service
• "Association of Sexual Violence, Human Rights Violations, and Mental Health Outcomes in Liberia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo," Kirsten Johnson, MD, MPH, Director, Humanitarian Studies Initiative, McGill University; Affiliated Faculty, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University
• "A Novel Simplified Echocardiographic Strategy for Heart Failure Diagnosis and Management at District Hospital Level for Sub-Saharan Africa," Gene Kwan, MD, Research Fellow, Division of Global Health Equity; Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• "Closing the Cancer Divide: Opportunities for Health System Strengthening," Maja Pleic, Research Assistant; Director, Health Systems and Equity Program, Harvard Global Equity Initiative
• "Innovative Partnership for Vision Research Integration: Leveraging Existing Health and Development Platforms for the Eye Diseases," Gyan “John” Prakash, PhD, MBA, Associate Director, International Programs, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
• "Ensuring Right to Sight by Eliminating Needless Blindness through Public Private Community Participation Model," Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye Hospital, NYSASDRI, India; Unite For Sight Partner
• "What is Health and Why Do We Need to Know? A New Understanding to Improve Health Through the Meikirch Model,"Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye Hospital, NYSASDRI, India; Unite For Sight Partner

Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Speakers

• "Measuring Performance and Outcomes of Health Programs in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Health Systems Perspective," Juan-Carlos Alegre, Director, Results Management, Management Sciences for Health
• "Showing Up is the First Step: Improving Healthcare Provider Attendance," Jasmine Shah, Policy Manager, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
• "Controlled Trials as Program Evaluation: Not Just for Researchers Anymore," Paul Bolton, Associate Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "Assessing the Economic Impact of Psychological Distress on Employment and National Income in Ghana," Maureen Canavan, PhD, Associate Research Scientist in Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health (View Video)
• "Implementation and Assessment of a Perinatal Health Education Program in Rural Nepal," Sienna Craig, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
• "Information Systems to Support the Expansion of Treatment of TB and MDR-TB," 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
• "Low Grade Inflammation and Glaucoma," James 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
• "But How Generalizable is That? A Framework for Examining the External Validity of Development Interventions," Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist, Development Research Group, The World Bank

Philanthropy and Investment Speakers

• "Gender Lens Investing in Healthcare," Natalia Oberti Noguera, Founder and CEO, Pipeline Fellowship
• "Piloting the 'Health Impact Fund' Idea," Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University

Social Enterprise Speakers

• "Transparency as a Brand Culture," Kyle Berner, Creator, Feelgoodz LLC
• "Creative Failure: How Culture, Economics, and Projection Can Screw Up a Great Program, and What to Learn from That," Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
• "Your Business as the Cause," Sophie Faris, Community Development, B Lab
• "Money in the Jungle: Investments and Earned Income Opportunities in the Amazon," Tyler Gage, Co-Founder and President, Runa
• "The Fig Food Movement: From Tikkun Olam to the Whole Foods Shelf," Joel Henry, President and Founder, Fig Food Company, LLC
• "Women Rice Farmers Feed Billions: Innovations that Transform Lives," Ken Lee, Co-founder and Co-owner, Lotus Foods
• "Building from the Inside Out: Co-opertives as an Egalitarian, Democratic, Grassroots, Free-Market Development Strategy," Rodney North, The Answer Man - Information for the Public and Media, Equal Exchange Coop
• "Coffee, Big Macs, and Handcuffs: Lessons Learned from 22 Days in Captivity," Alastair Onglingswan, CEO, Green Souls Shoes
• "Improving Our Economy and Our Health with Real Food," Noha Waibsnaider, Founder and CEO, Peeled Snacks
• "From the Congo to the Center of the Universe: How Chocolate Can Help Save the World," Joe Whinney, Founder and CEO, Theo Chocolate, Inc.

Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

• "The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Economy," Philip Auerswald, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
• "From Start-Up to Scale-Up: The Path to Becoming Industry Leaders in Reducing Indoor Air Pollution," Ron Bills, Chairman and CEO, Envirofit International
• "Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Experimental Evidence from Local Markets for Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda," David Yanagizawa-Drott, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• "Post Conflict Nations: Building Modern Institutions on Traditional Values - The Case Study of Rwanda," Michael Fairbanks, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• " The Low Take-up of Welfare Improving Products Among Poor Consumers: Lessons from Randomized Controlled Trials in Bangladesh, India and Malawi," A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University School of Management

Social Media & Marketing Speakers

• "A Global Study of Marketing and Preschool Children: Young Children’s Awareness of Fast Food, Beverages, Chips & Candy, Alcohol, and Tobacco," Dina Borzekowski, EdD, Associate Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "The Medium, the Message, and the Muppets: How Sesame Workshop Delivers Locally-Specific Health Education Across the Globe," Charlotte Cole, Senior Vice President, Global Education, Sesame Workshop
• "Innovations in Food Marketing to Kids: Just Fun and Games or Serious Public Health Concern?" Jennifer Harris, PhD, MBA, Director of Marketing Initiatives, Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, Yale University
• "Integrated Impact: Aligning Internal Resources and External Stakeholders to Make a Difference," Scott Henderson, Executive Director, Hypepotamus
• "Marketing Strategies for Non-Profit and For-Benefit Organizations," Naomi Hirabayashi, Director of Marketing, Do Something
• "The Animated Activist," Firdaus Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Culture Shift
• "Leveraging Social Network-Based Mechanisms to Promote Weight Loss and Diabetes Self-Management," Marta Prescott, PhD, Clausen Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Microclinic International
• "The Power of Dynamic Digital Storytelling," Linda Reinstein, President/CEO and Co-Founder, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO)

Surgery & Global Health Speakers

• "Three Years of Championing the Fight Against Needless Cataract Blindness in Ghana: Experiences and Challenges at Save The Nation's Sight Clinic," Thomas Baah, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director, Save The Nation's Sight Clinic, Ghana
• "Evolution of Conceptual Approaches for NGO Intervention," Scott Corlew, ReSurge

Technology in Global Health Speakers

• "Comparative Effectiveness Evaluations of Health Care Technology in Low to Middle Income Countries," Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, Associate Director for Research and Education, University of Michigan Center for Global Health
• "Health Information Systems: Design Thinking in the Context of Quality Improvement," Leo Anthony Celi, MD, MS, MPH, Executive Director, Sana, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT; Research Director, Laboratory of Computational Physiology, MIT; Staff Intensivist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• "Breakthrough: Driving Better Access, Quality, and Efficiency through Collaboration, Technology, and Innovation," Paul Ellingstad, Parter and Program Development Director, Sustainability and Social Innovation, Hewlett-Packard
• "HIV Infant Tracking System (HITSystem) in Kenya," Sarah Finocchario Kessler, PhD, MPH, Director of Research, Global Health Innovations; Assistant Research Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center (View Interview)
• "Inventing Construction Sets for Health," Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little Devices @MIT and co-founder LDTC+Labs LLC
• "'Planting' Solutions: Puzzling Problems," Martin Gordon, MD, FAAAS, Emeritus Chairman and Lifetime Trustee, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Board; Prior Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
• "Developing Technology in the Global Health Context," Jessica Haberer, MD, MS, Research Scientist, Harvard Institute for Global Health; Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
• "Using mHealth, eHealth and iHealth in PMTCT and OVC Programs," Bobby Jefferson, Senior Informatics Advisor, Futures Group
• "Bridging the Communication Gap with Speaking Books," Brian Julius, Owner, Books of Hope
• "Technology For Better Healthcare: Using Technology to Leapfrog Traditional Models of Healthcare Delivery in the Developing World," Shainoor Khoja, Consultant/Previously Managing Director, Roshan Community
• "Diagnostics to Support Malaria Elimination to Eradication: Because the Last Person Standing with Malaria is the Least Detectable!" Paul LaBarre, Senior Technical Officer, PATH; Project Director, DIAMETER (Diagnostics for Malaria Elimination Toward Eradication)
• "Mobile Technologies to Improve Rural Referral Systems for Obstetric and Newborn Care," Alain Labrique, Assistant Professor, Program in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Department of International Health and Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; Director, JHU Global mHealth Initiative
• "Eradication of AIDS: An Update on a Vaccine," Jennifer Garrett, Advocacy Specialist, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
• "Crazy Ideas That Actually Happened: Journeys of a Social Entrepreneur from Yale to Kosovo, Peru, Rwanda and Beyond," Paul Meyer, Chairman and President, Voxiva, Inc.
• "Can mHealth Bridge the Gap Between the Haves and Have Nots?" John Piette, Director, University of Michigan Program on Quality Improvement for Complex Chronic Conditions (QUICCC)
• "Mobile Phone Technology in the Developing World: Driving Supply Chain Transparency and Worker Empowerment," Todd Stark, President, Good World Solutions

Water and Sanitation Speakers

• "A Candid Look at Monitoring, Evaluation and Resolution in WASH in Schools: New Data from the Field," Leslie Deroo, WASH in Schools Fellow, WASH Advocates
• "Increasing Cost Effectiveness in Rural Service Delivery: The Case of Dispensers for Safe Water," Katherine Hoffmann, Dispensers for Safe Water, Innovations for Poverty Action
• "Empowering Youth: Why WASH in Schools Matters," Jackie Powell, Research Associate, WASH Advocates

"Advice From The Experts" Panels

• Careers in Social Entrepreneurship: Advice From The Experts
• Careers in Global Health: Advice From The Experts
• Social Businesses: Perspectives on Launching Successful Companies
• Lessons From The Field: Ethics of Program Development
• Local Solutions to Eliminate Patient Barriers to Care

Interactive Workshops

• "Camp for Orphans: Building Independence and Leadership Skills in At-Risk Youth,"Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University and Alyson Fox, Director, Global Partnership Program, SeriousFun Children's Network
• "Designing Effective Research Abroad: Student-Led Research Studies," Jonathan Curtis, MPH, MD Candidate, University of Utah School of Medicine
• "Scaling Your Social Venture: Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur," Paul Bloom, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Social Entrepreneurship and Marketing, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE), The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
• "The Practicalities of Where, When, and How to Implement Controlled Trials as Program Evaluation," Paul Bolton, Associate Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Judith Bass, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Applied Mental Health Research Group, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "What You Won't Learn in Business School: How to Structure a Social Enterprise for Real and Lasting Change," Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
• "China Has an Africa Strategy; Does Africa Have a China Strategy?"Michael Fairbanks, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• "Measure What Matters: Standards and Metrics for Responsible Business," Sophie Faris, Community Development, B Lab
• "Breaking Thru The Clutter Workshop: How To Market Your Cause and Attract New Champions,"Scott Henderson, Executive Director, Hypepotamus
• "Making a Difference through Conducting High-Impact Research," Tara Nutley, Senior Technical Specialist, MEASURE Evaluation, Futures Group
• "Integration Workshop: Why Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene are Key to All Development Initiatives," Jackie Powell, Research Associate, WASH Advocates, and five colleagues
• "Why I Volunteer in the Developing World, and Why You Should Too,"Aron Rose, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Associate Clinical Professor, Graduate Entry Prespecialty in Nursing, Yale University School of Nursing
• "(Some!) Essentials of Global Health: Working from a Common Foundation," Richard Skolnik, Lecturer, Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health; Author, "Essentials of Global Health/Global Health 101"
• "Health Advocacy Gets Personal: The Power of Storytelling and Online Petitions," Matthew Slutsky, Managing Director of Business Development, Change.org
• "How to Work with Designers," Matt Taylor, Business Development, IDEO.org
• "Successes and Failures: Lessons Learned Starting Up Social Enterprises," Joe Whinney, Founder and CEO, Theo Chocolate, Inc.

Student Leaders in Global Health Speakers

• "Use of Traditional Ophthalmic Remedies Practiced in Rural Ghana," Ricarda Bentham, BSc, MD Candidate, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
• "Case-Control Study of Obstetric Fistula Risk Factors and Outcomes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," Eric Chow, MD/MPH Candidate, Eastern Virginia Medical School
• "Blindness and Poverty: An Outreach-Based, Case-Control Study Assessing the Relationship Between Poverty and Visual Impairment from Cataract in Greater Accra, Central, Eastern, Western, Volta, and Ashanti Regions of Ghana," Jonathan Curtis, MPH, MD Candidate, University of Utah School of Medicine
• "The Impact of Household HIV/AIDS on Fuel, Water and Subsistence Livelihoods: Evidence from the 2008-2009 Kenyan Demographic Health Survey," Emily de Moor, Graduate Student, University of California, Santa Barbara
• "Low-Cost Sterilizing Toilet for Improved Decentralized Sanitation in Developing Countries," Aaron Forbis-Stokes, Graduate Student, Duke University
• "Adult Onset Diabetes in Rural Haiti: The Silent Epidemic," Heather Fosburgh, MPH Candidate, Yale School of Public Health
• "Health in the Hills: An Analysis of the Health-Seeking Behaviors of People in Rural Makwanpur, Nepal," Laurel Gabler, PhD Candidate, Department of Public Health, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
• "Pediatric Eye Care Misconceptions in Orissa, India," Shoshanna Goldin, Undergraduate Student, Wake Forest University
• "A Cross-Sectional Study Examining Determinants of Adverse Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana," Caroline Kusi, University of Michigan, Masters in Public Health Candidate 2013, Department of Health Education and Health Behavior; Bill Gates Millennium Scholar
• "Access to Care Among Patients with Previously and Newly Diagnosed Cardiovascular Disease Presenting to the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Referral Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya," Rita Kuwahara, MIH, MD Candidate, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine; Co-Director, Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC)
• "Socially Acceptable Point-of-Use Water Treatment Provides Significant Improvements in Water Quality in a Marginalized Community in Chennai, India," Morgan MacDonald, B.Kin., M.Sc., Project Coordinator, Alternative Water Systems Project; Environmental Engineering, University of Guelph
• "Delivery of Anti-retroviral Medication for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission at Home," Michael Maranzano, Undergraduate Student, Duke University
• "The Haiti Breast Cancer Initiative: Implementation of a Breast Cancer Registry in Haiti," Cecilia Ong, Research Associate, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School; Department of Plastic Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston; MD Candidate, Duke University
• "Does Donor Proliferation Affect Health Service Delivery and Health Outcomes? Initial Cross-Country Evidence," Sarah Pallas, PhD Candidate, Yale University
• "Environmental Health Knowledge and Fluorosis in the Ethiopian Rift Valley," Christopher Paul, PhD Student, Duke University Program in Environmental Policy; Global Health Doctoral Scholar, Children's Environmental Health Initiative
• "Risk Factors for Chronic Kidney Disease in Northwest Nicaragua," Nathan Raines, MD/MPH Student, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• "Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy: A Multilevel Analysis of the Los Angeles Mommy and Baby Project," Hilary Robbins, Predoctoral Fellow, Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute; MSPH Candidate, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
• "Barriers to Eye Care and Treatment in Rural Villages in Ghana," Theresa Tharakan, Undergraduate Student, Harvard College
• "Effective But Challenging: Sustaining the Impact of an Educational Intervention to Reduce Worm Infections in School-Age Children of the Peruvian Amazon," François Thériault, BSc, Graduate Student, McGill University
• "Soft, Watery, or Formed? Determining the Etiology of Pediatric Diarrhea in Uganda," Priyanka Vedak, Seven Year Accelerated Medical Program, MD Candidate, Class of 2014, Boston University School of Medicine
• "Understanding the Psychosocial Well-Being of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)," Grace Zhou, Undergraduate Student, Duke University

Social Enterprise Pitch Presenters (Ideas in Development)

• "The Kuoko Project: Providing Resources for the Installation and Development of School Gardens in Rural Western Kenya," Jacob Abell, Undergraduate Student, Baylor University
• "This Madness of Avoidable Blindness Must Stop: Promoting Visual Health Through Movies and Drama in Nigeria," Feyisayo Grace Adepoju, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ilorin
• "Bi-Directional Screening for Tuberculosis and Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Utilizing Novel Non-Invasive Technologies in Mexico," Tope Adepoyibi, TB Technical Officer, HIV/TB Global Program, PATH
• "Garment Factory Fire in Bangladesh," Hasanat Alamgir, Professor, University of Texas School of Public Health
• "An Integrated Wellness Program to Address the Heavy Burden of Psychiatric Comorbidities and Tobacco Smoking among People with Drug Use Disorders," Rachel Marie Amiya, MSc, PhD Candidate, Department of Community and Global Health, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
• "Refugee to Refugee: Utilizing Peer Support to Improve Quality of Life of New Refugees," Aniyizhai Annamalai, MD, Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Medicine; Director, Yale Refugee Clinic
• "Creating an Interdisciplinary Global Summit to Develop Local Partnerships," Elizabeth Arnold, MPH, Director, Global Partners Program, Gundersen Lutheran
• "The Cradle of Jazz Project: Musical Restitution for West Africa," Elke Bachmann, CNM, MSN, Faculty, Midwifery Program, Yale School of Nursing
• "WASH for All," Michael Batista, PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• "Building Global Health Equity by Enabling Clean and Safe Care Any Time, Anywhere, with Portable Power-Free Sterilization for Medical Instruments and Supplies," Myra Donnelley, Vice President for Resource Development, Eniware, LLC
• "The Upper Valley Memory Café: An Intergenerational, Psychosocial Approach to Alzheimer’s Care," Kimberly Betts, Director, Upper Valley Memory Café; Project Assistant, Geriatric Psychiatry Department, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• "Community Gardening for Health," Rohan Bhatia, Undergraduate Student, Brandeis University
• "Holistic Poverty Interventions: Addressing Resource Acquisition, Education, and Health in Rwanda," Sriya Bhattacharyya, Doctoral Student in Counseling Psychology, Boston College; Global Leadership Fellow, The Orbis Institute; Co-founder, Rwanda Sustainable Families
• "Knit for Peace: Health and Social Benefits of Knitting, in the Developing World and at Home," Dame Hilary Blume, Founder/Director, Charities Advisory Trust
• "The Chlorine Bank Network," Zach Brehmer, Director of Programs and Development, International Action
• "Smartphone-Enabled Image Processing: A Simple Solution to Save Lives, Heath Care Costs, and Improve Clinical Workflow," Irina Buhimschi, MD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science
• "Enhancing and Strengthening Laboratory Systems in Resource-Challenged Regions," Ryan Burnette, PhD, Director, Alliance Biosciences
• "Costs and Outcomes of Mobile Screening for Cervical Cancer in South Africa," Ivan Busulwa, MBA, MPH, Manager, Health, Cardno Emerging Markets USA, Ltd.
• "Foundations in Science and Health: An Innovative Symbiosis Between the University of Maryland and Local High Schools," Fang Cao, Undergraduate Student, University of Maryland
• "Videos that Help Frontline Health Workers Learn and Save Lives," Peter Cardellichio, PhD, Director, Research & Development, Global Health Media Project
• "eLearning as a Tool for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)," Jarret Cassaniti, Communications Specialist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs
• "Rapid Autonomous Infusion Device (RAID): Innovation for Humanitarian Aid," Kevin Chi, Medical Student, Stanford University
• "Challenges of Increasing Maternal and Neonatal Viability in Nonliterate and Low-Resource Communities in Northern Port au Prince, Haiti," Alison Childs, RN, CEMEPID (Centre Medical Partners in Development)
• "StarfishNet: Improving Pediatric Burn Outcomes through a Five-Pronged Model of Integrated Care," Brecken Chinn Swartz, PhD, Executive Director, HandReach
• "Empowering Non-Profits with Mobile Applications," Brian Chiou, Co-Founder and CEO, Enigma Systems LLC
• "Building an Integrated System of Community-Based Mental Health Services in Romania," Emilia Chiscop, Center for International Development, Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy
• "kCal Adventures: Using Mobile Devices to Develop Nutritional Knowledge and Physical Activity," Mary Christoph, MPH/PhD Candidate, University of Illinois
• "Kuska: An Innovative Non-Profit Bringing Educational Opportunity to Peruvian Students Via the Internet," Alex Clark, President, Self Reliance Systems, LLC
• "Miraclefeet: Providing Free Clubfoot Treatment in Developing Countries," Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Miraclefeet
• "Incentivizing Waste Management in Under-Resourced Areas," Connor Cotton, Undergraduate Student, Duke University (View Video)
• "The Medical Credit Fund: Financing Medical Quality Improvement in Africa," Kwasi Boahene, Director Advocacy & Program Development, Health Insurance Fund
• "SMS Messaging to Improve Vaccine Coverage and Reporting of Adverse Events Following Immunization in Guatemala City," Gretchen Domek, MD, Global Health Fellow, Center for Global Health, University of Colorado
• "Building Global Health Equity by Enabling Clean and Safe Care Any Time, Anywhere, with Portable Power-Free Sterilization for Medical Instruments and Supplies," Myra Donnelley, Vice President for Resource Development, Eniware, LLC
• "Teaching Students to Become their Own Teachers: Empowering Indigenous Ecuadorians to Become Health Teachers and Advocates in their Own Community," Andrea Evans, MSc, MDCM, Resident in Paediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
• "Resource Seeding: Hyper-Focused Natural Resource Utilization," Ned Farrell, President, The Bee Happy Co.
• "The Cost of Using of Donor Breast Milk for Premature Neonates Compared to the Costs of Treating Necrotizing Enterocolitis," Rosamma Finney, MSN, RNC-NIC, NEA-BC, Director of Nursing, Neontal ICU & Intermedicate Care Nursery, Harris Health System, Ben Taub General Hospital
• "Centering Center," Florence Folami, PhD, MSN, MSPH, IBCLC, Assistant Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Millikin University
• "Averting the Next Global Pandemic Through Wildlife Pathogen Surveillance," Kirsten Gilardi, DVM, Associate Director, UC Davis Wildlife Health Center, Global Programs
• "A Global Health Service Partnership for Health System Strengthening Between the US Peace Corps and Health Institutions in Resource-Limited Settings," Jennifer Goldsmith, Chief Administrative Officer, Global Health Service Corps
• "Getting Down But Not Dirty: Preventing Surgical Infections with an Autoclave Technologically, Economically, and Culturally Appropriate for Resource-Limited Settings," Avi Goodman, Medical Student, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
• "Turning Bottles into Books," Daniela Gusman, Chairman for the Board, Kick4Life
• "DCorps: Accelerating Global Health Improvement through Collaborative Design Thinking," Hialy Gutierrez, MPH Student, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
• "Developing the Social Capitol of Community Mental Health Workers (CMHWs) in Low Resource Contexts: Creation of a Certification Program for a Much-Needed Workforce," Emily Haroz, MA, PhD Student, NIMH Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Fellow, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "Solar Cookers for Improved Respiratory Health and Income Generation in Rural India," Kelly Healy, MPH, International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "Coffee with a Cause: A Local Approach to Orphan Care Partnerships," Bryce Hoover, Accenture Consulting, Accenture Development Partnerships, Analyst
• "A Free Open Forum for All Global Health Literature Before Journal Publication," Shuo "Jim" Huang, MPH Candidate, Brown University
• "Solar Water Pasteurization: An Excellent HWT Option," Frank Husson, Jr., MBA, Solar Solutions LLC
• "Food Recovery Network: Fighting Waste, Feeding People," Rebecca Kagan, Undergraduate Student, Brown University
• "Medical Technology Innovation Hub for India," Ritu Kamal, Global Project Manager, Biodesign Program, Stanford University
• "The Global Health Watch: A Nonprofit for Accountability in Health and Development," Abraar Karan, Medical Student, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
• "Ethics Consultation in Mobile Health Application Design," Walter Karlen, MSc, PhD, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Biomedical Engineering Research Group, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
• "NutriBee: A Bee-Style Competition Engaging Children in Healthful Nutrition Behavior," Ingrid Kohlstadt, MD, MPH, Faculty, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Editor, Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients; Executive Director, NutriBee National Nutrition Competition, Inc.
• "Dialogue in Haiti: An Interactive, Digital Records Program for Improved Communication between Local Hospitals and the Patient," Andrew Koo, Undergraduate Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• "Preventing and Treating Avoidable Blindness from Glaucoma in Sub-Saharan Africa," Ayaz Kurji, Graduate Student, Queen's University
• "Surviving Chronic Illness in Haiti: A Holistic Healthcare Approach to Prevent, Treat, and Manage Diabetes and Hypertension," Jennifer Lang, Program Manager, Hope for Haiti
• "SharinginHealth: An Open-Access Learning Platform for Training in Rural Primary Care in Low-Resource Settings," David LaPierre, MSc, MD, CCFP, Founder and Chief Editor, SharinginHealth
• "DREAMing Big for Disaster Relief," Emily Largent, PhD Candidate, Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, Harvard University 
• "Global Health Hospital Medicine Fellowship," Phuoc Le, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Assistant Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics; Co-Director, Global Health-Hospital Medicine Fellowship, UCSF
• "Rainwater for Humanity," Samuel Lee, Graduate Student, Brown University
• "Tech in the World: Global Health Fellowships for Tomorrow's Leaders in Technology," Brandon Liu, Undergraduate Student, Harvard University
• "Realizations Embraced," Anuradha Malya, Undergraduate Student, University of Texas at Austin
• "An Open-Source Model for Scaling Up the GSAP Microflush Toilet," Stephen Mecca, Ghana Sustainable Aid Project & Providence College, Department of  Engineering-Physics-Systems
• "Improving Health Outcomes through Evidence Based Design: Developing a Toolkit for Designing Clinics that Contribute to Healing," Robert Moore, MD, MPH, Advisor, Clinica Verde
• "Reinventing Traditional Birth Attendants (“TBAs”) by Integrating Microfranchising," Robert Mulhall, Project Implementation Coordinator, Innovations for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, Concern Worldwide U.S.
• "Tiatros Inc.," Seth Norman, Product Manager, Tiatros, Inc.
• "HITCHED: Health Infrastructure through Community Help and Entrepreneur Development," Ayodele Oti, Service Fellow, NYC Service: Office of the Mayor
• "Portable Neonatal Jaundice Incubator," Shamini Parameswaran, MSIII, TTUHSC School of Medicine
• "Small-Scale Hydropower," Alison Polton-Simon, Undergraduate Student, Dartmouth College
• "Economic Empowerment through Skills Training, Product Sales, and Personal Savings for Sex Trafficking Survivors," Haley Raimondi, MA, Research and Outcomes Manager, Operation Smile International Headquarters
• "TayoPH.org: Building Health from the Bottom Up," Eric Ramos, MD/MBA Candidate, Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health
• "Hearing Express: A Sustainable Model for Low Cost, High-Quality Hearing Aids for Developing Countries," Audra Renyi, Executive Director, World Wide Hearing Foundation International
• "International Ultrasound Education Collaborative," Cecily Reynolds, MD MS, Ultrasound Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center
• "Gadyen Dlo: Local Production and Distribution of Chlorine to Reduce Diarrhea in Haiti," Michael Ritter, MPH, Co-Founder, Deep Springs International
• "Paper and Plastic Screening Test for Early Infant HIV Diagnosis at the Point of Care," Brittany Rohrman, PhD Candidate, Rice University
• "Solutions to Sourcing Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (“MNCH”) Equipment," Mila Rosenthal, Director, Innovations for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, Concern Worldwide U.S.; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
• "Nutrition Fruition!" Pialee Roy, MA, PhD Candidate, University of Delaware
• "Peepoople: An Innovative Sanitation Solution to Achieve Hygienic and Dignified Sanitation for All," Karin Ruiz, CEO, Peepoople
• "Untraditionally Traditional: Rethinking Maternal Health Advocacy in South Sudan," Hiba Salih, MD, MPH, Program Specialist, Africa and the Middle East, GHETS (Global Health through Education Training and Service); The Reproductive and Child Health Research Unite (RCRU), UMST, Khartoum, Sudan
• "Implementing and Supporting Economically Sustainable Healthcare Support Technologies in Low-Resource Healthcare Settings," Christian Salmon, PhD, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Western New England University
  
• "ClinDesk & White Coat Academy: Opening Medical Knowledge to the World," Nicholas P. Semenkovich, MD/PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis
• "Picknic: Using Mobile Technology to Incentivize Healthy Eating," Lochan Shah, Undergraduate Student, UC Berkeley; CEO, Picknic
• "An Innovative and Integrated Primary Health Care Network for Mississippi," Mohammad Shahbazi, Professor of Public Health, Interim Executive Director, School of Health Sciences, Jackson State University
• "Nonsurgical and Nonpharmaceutical Treatment of Otitis Media with Effusion in the Developing World," Shlomo Silman, PhD,
  Presidential Professor, Broecklundian Professor, and Claire and Leonard Tow Professor, Audiology and Hearing Sciences, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Professor, AuD Program, Graduate Center, CUNY; Professor, PhD Program, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Graduate Center, CUNY
• "Expanding Access to Affordable Sanitary Pads by Leveraging Local Resources," Anne Smith, Research Program Manager, ZanaAfrica
• "Might Retirees be Useful Mentors for Young Researchers?" David C. Sokal, MD, Public Health Scientist, Durham, NC
• "Using the Mashavu System to Acquire Data For Monitoring Diabetes in Nyeri, Kenya," Stephen Suffian, Graduate Student, Villanova University
• "Safe Pregnancy and Birth: New Mobile App for Women's Health," Dorothy Tegeler, Assistant Director, Hesperian Health Guides
• "Developing Women Entrepreneurs in the Livestock Value Chain in Nepal," Maggie Thomas, Program Assistant, Heifer International
• "Clean Life Corps: Sanitation for Urban Poor," Trevor Thunell, Engineering Student, Rochester Institute of Technology
• "Re-Inventing the World: One Education-Centric, Social-Entrepreneurial Community at a Time," Kathleen Tucker, CEO and Founder, TUCKLETS; Graduate Student in Social Entrepreneurship and Change, Pepperdine University
• "LifeFirst: Catalyzing Hospitals in India to Provide Simple, Proven Tobacco Treatment," Shalini Vallabhan, PhD, Consultant, Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation
• "Telemammography for Rural Areas in Colombia Without Specialized Diagnostic Imaging Equipment," Sofia Velasco, MD, MPH Candidate; Research Assistant in Public Health, School of Government Alberto Lleras Camargo, Universidad de los Andes
• "Development of the Assessment Screen to Identify Survivors Toolkit for Gender Based Violence (ASIST-GBV)," Alexander Vu, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
• "One Village Planet Women’s Development Initiative and Just Shea: Streamlining the Supply Chain for an Indigenous Commodity from the Village Up by Foregrounding Worker Safety," Danielle Grace Warren, Founder and Executive Director, One Village Planet: Women's Development Initiative; Founder and Executive Director, Just Shea, LLC
• "Clinical Research Accelerator to Address Barriers in Orthopaedic Research for Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)," Amanda Whitaker, MD,  Resident, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco
• "Safer-Injection Sites: The Proper Response to Drug Overdose Deaths," Brett Wolfson-Stofko, MSc, PhD Candidate, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• "Ethio-Eco-Entrepreneurs," Selamawit Zewdie, PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• More presentations to be announced. Pitch presenters are selected from the submitted abstracts, which are reviewed and accepted on a rolling application deadline.