From: Anelia Persad [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:03 PM
To: L.Wood-Hill
Subject: International Health Conference at Yale
Hello Ms. Wood-Hill,
I got this e-mail from Columbia about a conference that is going to occur in
April at Yale University. It's about International and Global Medicine. I
think it's a good opportunity for anyone who might be interested in
international health and development.
Kind Regards,
Anelia Persad
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:20:22 -0500
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Subject: International Health Conference at Yale
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Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health Conference
Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow
April 12-13, 2008
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
<http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008>
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008
Join 2,000 conference attendees and 150 speakers for a stimulating
conference.
Keynote Addresses By: Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan
Blumenthal, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim
Plus More Than 150 Featured Speakers
Register For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ( $60 students, $85 all
others) <http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008>
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008 REGISTER NOW TO
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Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public
health, international development, medicine, eye care, nonprofits,
philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics,
anthropology, health policy, advocacy, environmental health, and
public service.
Keynote Addresses
Susan Blumenthal, MD,MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General; Senior
Advisor For Health and Medicine; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts
University Medical Center
"Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health," Jim Yong Kim, MD,
PhD,Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director, Francois Xavier Bagnoud
Center for Health and Human Rights; Francois Xavier Bagnoud Professor
of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Chair,
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the
Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and
Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director at World Health
Organization
Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia
University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor
of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor
to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
"Millennium Village Project", Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health
Coordinator, Millennium Villages
Plenary Panels (Confirmed Thus Far)
Brain Drain: The Health, Development, and Economic Effects on African
Countries
Introduction:
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
Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages
Panelists:
Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana
James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye
Clinic, Ghana
Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director of the Bawku Eye Care
Program, Ghana
Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital,
Ghana
Building Capacity With Community Health Outreach Workers
Introduction:
JimYong Kim, MD, PhD, Co-Founder, Partners in Health; Director,
Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Francois
Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of
Public Health; Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical
School; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health
Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Former HIV/AIDS Director
at World Health Organization
Panelists:
James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye
Clinic, Ghana
Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
Eva Harris, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious
Diseases,School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley;
President,Sustainable Sciences Institute
Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University
Speakers "Title To Be Announced", Rob Abel, MD, Delaware Ophthalmology
Consultants
"Management of Age-Related Macular Degeneration", Ronald Adelman, MD,
MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Retina Service,
Yale University School of Medicine
"Title To Be Announced", Ted M. Alemayhu, Founder, Chairman and CEO,
US Doctors For Africa
"International Educational Exchanges: Challenges and Opportunities",
Barbara Allerton, RN, MSN, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing,
Boise State University
"Scaling Up Provision of Safe Drinking Water in the Developing
World", Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water,
Procter & Gamble
"People, Places, and Genes: How world populations are helping us find
the cause of glaucoma.", R. Rand Allingham, MD, Professor of
Ophthalmology; Director, Glaucoma Service, Duke University Eye Center
"Keratoprosthesis in the Developing World", Jared Ament, MD, MPh,
Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmlology & Corneal Surgery,
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School; Harvard
School of Public Health
"Orphan Life Abroad: How children live without parental care", Jane
Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services;
Founder and Executive Medical Director, Worldwide Orphans Foundation
(WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical
College of Cornell University
"Title To Be Announced", Hibah Ayaz, BA Candidate, Union College;
Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"Refocusing Malnutrition Interventions in Rural Haiti: A Strategic
Evolution", Adeline Azrack, Director of Monitoring and Evaluation,
Hopital Albert Schweitzer
"Title To Be Announced", Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our
Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Abrahim Bagheri, BS Candidate, Loyola
Marymount University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"Can Market-Based Approaches Arrest The Killer In The Kitchen? The
Promises and Pitfalls of Commercializing Improved Cookstoves", Robert
Bailis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies
"Title To Be Announced", Reema Banerjee, MSc, PG Diploma in Hospital
Management, Centre for Environment Education, India
"The Slaying of Little Dragons--Guinea Worm Eradication", Michele
Barry, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Global Health Director,
Office of International Health; Chief, General Medicine Firm, Yale
University School of Medicine
"Engaging the Public: Improving Our Health", Georges Benjamin, MD,
Executive Director, American Public Health Association
"Health For All Now", Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH, Founder, President
and CEO, MIDEGO
"Doing it The Quality Way Because It Is In Equality", P. Berman, OD,
FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics
Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
"Eliminating the Needless Loss of Sight That Occurs During Sports",
Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder,
Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
"Home Visit Project of Blind Babies Foundation and Perspektiva of the
Volga Region in Russia", Julie Bernas-Pierce, MEd, Executive Director,
Blind Babies Foundation
"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the
Developing World", Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and of
Molecular Pharmacology (Active Emeritus), Stanford University School
of Medicine
"Addressing the Need for Reduction of Uncorrected Refractive Error in
Persons With intellectual Disability through Participate in Special
Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes Vision Program.",
Sandy Block, OD, Illinois College of Optometry
"What Happens When Child Soldiers Grow-up? Mozambique Life Outcome
Study", Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family
Health; Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman
School of Public Health
"Raising Malawi", Philippe van den Bossche, Executive Director,
Raising Malawi
"Operation Miracle", 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)
"Cataract Blindness in Developing Countries and SEE International",
Harry S. Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE)
International
"Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Urban Slums of Africa", John
Bryant, PhD, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
"Tema Eye Survey", Donald Budenz, MD, MPH, Professor of
Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Public Health, University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine
"International Nurse Education: Simulation Plays A Part in Global
Standards of Practice", Ann Campbell, RN, MSN, CPNP, Old Dominion
University/Operation Smile International
"Title To Be Announced", Michael Cappello, MD, Professor of
Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health; Director, Program in
International Child Health; Co-Director, International Adoption
Clinic, Yale University School of Medicine
"Community Health Improvement in a Nomadic Village on the Eastern
Tibetan Plateau", Nancy Chin, MPH, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor,
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of
Rochester
"Unite For Sight To The Rescue: An Example Worth Emulating", James
Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic,
Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Anna Cooper, MPH, MD Candidate, University
of Rochester School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Bihar,
India
"Managing Technology to Advance Eye Care", Ismael Cordero, Advisor,
Healthcare Technology, Orbis
"Filling the Gap: A Model For Surgical Capacity Building In Rural
China", Scott Corlew, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Interplast
"Title To Be Announced", Susan Day, MD, Chair and Program Director,
Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, California Pacific Medical
Center
"Title To Be Announced", Samantha Diamond, BA Candidate, Yale
University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
"Exclusive Breastfeeding in Ethiopia: Barriers, Beliefs and
Behavioral Outcomes", Julia Dickinson, RN, Yale University School of
Nursing
"Unite For Sight Visiting Volunteers Participation in Eye Screening
Outreach Program, Accra, Ghana", Robert Dolo, ON, RN, Ophthalmic
Nurse, Unite For Sight-Ghana
"Is That Angle Occludable?", Syril K. Dorairaj, MD, Clinical Research
Fellow, Glaucoma Associates of New York, The New York Eye and Ear
Infirmary
"Title To Be Announced", Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic
Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
"The Bad Road to Good Health: The Clinton Foundation's Initiative to
Build Healthcare Capacity in Rural Areas", Andy Ellner, MD, Clinton
HIV/AIDS Initiative
"Childhood obesity prevention in the Western Cape region of South
Africa", William D. Evans, PhD, Vice President, Research Triangle
Institute
"Title To Be Announced", Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, Kaiser Media Fellow;
Visiting Scientist, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and
Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health; Senior Fellow, Harvard
Humanitarian Initiative
"Glaucoma Scrreinng in Connecticut", Susan Hall Forster, MD,
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies,
Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief,
Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
"Title To Be Announced", David Friedman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor
of Ophthalmology and International Health, Johns Hopkins University
"Title To Be Announced", Stephen Furlow, MD Candidate, University of
Kentucky School of Medicine; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director, The Zena
and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute; Director, The
Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascuclar Health;
Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor, Mount Sinai;
Past-President, American Heart Association; President-elect, World
Heart Federation
"Humanitarian Health and HIV/AIDS Crisis and Care inside Dominican
Republic's migrant sugar cane plantations' Bateyes.", Ulrick Gaillard,
JD, Founder and Executive Director, The Batey Relief Alliance
"A Binational Stanford - Mexico Health Advocacy Program - Partners to
Address Immigrant Health", Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine,
Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University
School of Medicine
"Developing Strategies with Vietnamese Ethnic Rural Communities to
Improve Health", Lan Gien, BSc, MEd, PhD, Professor of Nursing,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
"Estimating The Impact of a Safe, Effective, and Easily-Inserted
Drainage Device for the Treatment of Glaucoma in the Developed and
Developing World", Roger Goldberg, MD, MBA Candidate, Yale University
School of Medicine
"Youth Engagement in Development Stategies: through the lens of
Global Youth Service Day", Silvia Golombek, Senior Vice President,
Youth Service America
"Introducing Students to Global Health", Sarabeth Gottlieb, CNM, MS,
Lecturer, Yale University School of Nursing
"Clinical Mentoring Rapidly Improves Clinic Management Systems for
HIV Care in Resource-Limited Settings", Katherine Graves-Abe, MA,
Director of Operations, International Center For Equal Healthcare
Access (ICEHA)
"Poisons in the Well: Exposure, Consequences and Remediation of
Arsenic and Manganese in Bangladesh", Joe Graziano, PhD, Professor of
Environmental Health Sciences and Pharmacology; Associate Dean for
Research, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
"An Extremely Affordable Device To Enable Treatment of Asthma in
Rural Mexico", Eric Green, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of
Medicine
"Title To Be Announced", Nora Groce, PhD, Associate Professor and
Director, Yale/WHO Collaborating Centre, Global Health Division, Yale
School of Public Health
"Title To Be Announced", Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist and
Director of the Bawku Eye Care Program, Ghana
"Nutritional Management of Cataracts", Heskel M. Haddad, MD, Clinical
Professor of Ophthalmology, New York Medical College
"Key Components for the Development of an Emergency Healthcare
System: The Ethiopian Experience", Tenagne Haile-Mariam, MD, Assistant
Professor, The George Washington University Medical School
"Title To Be Announced", Eva Harris, PhD, Associate Professor,
Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, University
of California, Berkeley; President, Sustainable Sciences Institute
"Health and Education at Grace Children's Hospital in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti:", Jeannine Hatt, MD, Past-President, International Child Care
USA; Board of Directors and Chair, International Child Care's Medical
Resource Development Clinic
"Infertility in Developing Countries: Scope, Psychosocial Burden and
Need for Action", Anke Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH, UCSF Women's Global
Health Imperative
"The Challenges of Glaucoma Care in West Africa", Leon Herndon, MD,
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center
"Ophthalmology in the Holy Land: The Eye Hospital of St. John of
Jerusalem", Steve Hudson, MD, JD, MPA, Ophthalmologist, Member of the
Order of St. John (M.St..J), Unite For Sight Volunteer
"Akwaaba! Volunteer Ophthalmology in Breman Asikuma, Ghana", Steven
Hudson, MD, JD, MPA, Ophthalmologist, Unite For Sight Volunteer in
Breman Asikuma, Ghana
"Innovative Market Based Solutions in Global Health", Omer
Imtiazuddin, MBA, Health Portfolio Manager, Acumen Fund
"Title To Be Announced", Ibrahim Jabr, Interim President,
International Trachoma Initiative
"Title To Be Announced", Evaleen Jones, MD, Founder, President and
Medical Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical
Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Addressing Serious Mental Disorders in Complex Humanitarian
Emergencies", Lynne Jones, MA, MBChB, MRCPysch PhD
"Measuring Impacts", Dean Karlan, PhD, President and Founder of
Innovations for Poverty Action; Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale
University
"Childhood Blindness And Its Prevention", Kartee Karloweah, ON, RN,
Ophthalmic Nurse, Unite For Sight-Ghana
"Atrocities and Social Entrepreneurship", Zachary Kaufman, MPhil in
International Relations; DPhil Candidate in International Relations,
University of Oxford; JD Candidate, Yale University Law School
"Health Diplomacy", Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in
Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial
Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
"Title To Be Announced", Karen King, MA, Elementary School Teacher,
Reed Intermediate School; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General
Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems
"Title To Be Announced", Brian Lich, BA Candidate, Southern Methodist
University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Shawn Lin, BS, Unite For Sight Volunteer in
Chennai, India
"Residency Based Fellowships in Global and Underserved Health - Who
Are the Stakeholders?", Scott Loeliger, MD, MS, Faculty Physician,
Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
"Increasing Access to and Use of Skilled Maternal and Newborn Care in
Dumka District of India", Juliet MacDowell, MA, Senior Program
Manager, JHPIEGO
"Increasing Income, Confidence and Business Growth for Low-Income
Women", Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International
"Disabilities among refugee and conflict-affected populations--nature
and scope of the issue, interventions and approaches", Carolyn
Makinson, PhD, Executive Director, Women's Commission for Refugee
Women and Children
"Utilization of PDA's by Community Health Workers for Field
Collection of Malaria Statistics in Rural Haiti", Nick Mann, BA
Candidate, Truman State University
"Addressing Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies is a Key Building Block
to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals", M.G. Venkatesh Mannar,
President, The Micronutrient Initiative
"Civil Society: Mobilizing Community Health Workers for Malaria
Control", Anne Martin-Staple, PhD, Research Scholar, Duke University
"Title To Be Announced", Umang Mathur, MS, Consultant
Ophthalmologist, Associate Director and Head of Department of
Ophthalmology, Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital, India
"Medical Education in Ghana", Tshepo Mbalambi, BSc, Med Sci, MBcHB
Candidate, University of Ghana School of Medicine
"The End of AIDS -- IAVI and the Search for a Vaccine to Prevent
HIV", John McGoldrick, Senior Vice President, International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
"The Highest Attainable Standard: The Implications of an Evolving
Human Right to Health for Public Health and Global Health Systems",
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil; PhD Candidate, Sociomedical
Sciences, Columbia University; IGERT-International Development and
Globalization Fellow
"Title To Be Announced", Christine Melton, MD, MS, Friends of Aravind
Association
"Public Health Strategies for Effective Medical Missions Overseas",
Derek Mladenovich, OD, FAAO, MPH Candidate, Fellow, World Council of
Optometry; External Examiner, International Rescue Committee, Thailand
"A Sustainable Approach to Nutrition for People Living with HIV/AIDS
in Rwanda", Emily Morell, BA Candidate, Yale University
"Title To Be Announced", Anne Firth Murray, Founding President, The
Global Fund for Women; Consulting Professor, Human Biology Program,
Stanford University
"Women's Global Health and Human Rights", Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,
Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community
Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College
School of Public Health
"Title To Be Announced", Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant
Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health,
Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of
Public Health; NGO Representative of Medical Women International
Assocaition to the United Nations
"Title To Be Announced", John Mutter, PhD, MSc, Deputy Director and
Associate Vice Provost, The Earth Institute at Columbia; Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University;
Professor, International and Public Affairs, Columbia University;
Bamboo Bike Project
"A Non-Traditional Approach to Global Health Training: The Penn
Program", Neal Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Expanding HIV and AIDS counseling skills in Africa: Cascade
approach", Mike Negerie, DrPH, MPH, Regional Technical Manager for
Health, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Africa Regional
Office, South Africa
"Title To Be Announced", Edward O'Neil Jr, MD, Founder, Omni Med;
Author, Awakening Hippocrates: Primer on Health, Poverty, and Global
Service, and A Practical Guide to Global Health Service
"Title To Be Announced", Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Pediatric Faculty,
Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program; Chair, AAP Section on
International Child Health
"Title To Be Announced", Hafeezah Omar, BA Candidate, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra,
Ghana
"Using National and International Advocacy and Media to Advance
Social Change in HIV-Prevention", Adeyemi Oshodi, PATH
"Title To Be Announced", Elijah Paintsil, MD, Associate Research
Scientist, Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
"Developing an Institutional Review Board For International
Non-Governmental Organizations in International Healthcare", Ellen
Palmer, RN, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Texas at
Arlington School of Nursing
"Title To Be Announced", Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians
and Surgeons
"The Healing of Retinal Photocoagulation Lesions", Yannis Paulus, MD
Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Public Private Partnerships in Action: ExxonMobil's approach to
making a difference on malaria's human toll in Africa", Steven C.
Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon
Mobil Corporation
"Update on IAPB and VISION 2020: the Right to Sight", Louis
Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the
Prevention of Blindness
"Blind Leading The Blind", Martine Polycarpe, MPH, Director for
Health, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
"Title To Be Announced", Chiwing Jessica Qu, BA Candidate, Yale
University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Chennai, India
"Trachoma Control; Challenges for 2020", Thomas Quinn, MD, Director,
Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
"Title To Be Announced", Nathan Radcliffe, MD, Glaucoma Service at
New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
"Ethical Dilemmas in International Medicine: Cases from the Honduran
Health Alliance", Bonzo Reddick, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Title To Be Announced", William Reese, President and CEO,
International Youth Foundation
"Implementation of a Comprehensive Community-Based Tuberculosis
Control Program in Eastern Burma's Chronic Conflict Zone", Allison
Richard, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Associate
Director of the Division of International Medicine, University of
Southern California and Global Health Access Program
"Surgical Care in Angola: Perspectives From Two Hospitals", Robert
Riviello, MD, MPH, Associate Surgeon, Instructor in Surgery, Brigham
and Women's Hospital
"The Global Marketization of Health Services: Promoting Inequity,
Inequality and Exclusion", Ellen Rosskam, PhD, MPH, Public Health &
Social Protection Specialist; Visiting Professor, University of
Massachusetts, Lowell, Work Environment Department; Visiting Senior
Fellow, University of Surrey, European Institute of Health and Medical
Sciences, England
"Advancing Educational Opportunities for Children who are Blind with
Additional Impairments", Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School
for the Blind
"Title To Be Announced", Ilya Rozenbuam, MD, GANY Glaucoma Fellow,
New York Eye and Ear Institute
"Civil society advocacy for the right to heatlh", Leonard Rubenstein,
Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights
"Break the Cycle of Disadvantage and Disability", Leslie Rubin, MD,
Visiting Scholar, Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of
Medicine; Founder and President, Institute for the Study of
Disadvantage and Disability; Co-Director, Southeast Pediatric
Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Emory University
"Title To Be Announced", 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
"Obstetric and Traumatic Fistula: Film-based Campaigning for Global
Women's Health", Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
"Delivering on the MDGs: Equity and Maternal Health", Emma Sachs,
Health Equity Team, Earth Institute, Columbia University
"Title To Be Announced", Majid Sadigh
"Title To Be Announced", Sarwat Salim, MD, Ophthalmologist
"Title To Be Announced", Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa,
India
"Innovative Approaches to Public Private Partnerships in Kenya's
Health and Youth Sectors", Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial
Markets Specialist, USAID
"Title To Be Announced", Shakira Sanchez-Collins, BA Candidate, Yale
University; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
"Title To Be Announced", Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director,
JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University
"Title To Be Announced", Werner Schultink, MD, Chief Child
Development and Nutrition, UNICEF
"Self Sustainability - The Mantra For Manging Avoidable Blindness",
V. Panneer Selvam, MS, DO, MPhil, Arasan Eye Hospital, India
"Title To Be Announced", Rosh and Roshan Sethi, BS Candidate, Yale
University; Unite For Sight Volunteers in New Delhi, India
"Title To Be Announced", Chirag Shah, MD, Chief Resident, Wills Eye
Hospital
"Title To Be Announced", Kuldev Singh, MD, Professor of
Ophthalmology, Stanford University
"Title To Be Announced", Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB
Eye Institute, Patna, India
"Title To Be Announced", D. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of
Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City
Hospital
"Promoting HIV/AIDS Education Despite Social and Cultural Barriers",
Piya Sorcar, MA, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
"Title To Be Announced", Eliot Sorel, MD, D.L.F.A.P.A. Global Health,
Health Services Management, and Leadership, The George Washington
University School of Public Health; Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine, GWU; Chairman, Founder, Conflict Management
Section WPA
"A Pilot Therapeutic Feeding Program for Malnourished Orphans in
Ukraine", Jonathan M. Spector, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of
Pediatrics, UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center
"Empowering Communities in the Fight to Eliminate Neglected Tropical
Diseases", Kari Stoever, Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Sabin
Vaccine Institute
"Training community eye workers in Ghana and Liberia: the good, the
bad, and the ugly", Glenn Strauss, MD, Vice President of International
Health Care and Programs, Mercy Ships, Int'l
"Kongo: The Ultimate Black Civilization", Robert Farris Thompson,
PhD, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale
University
"Title To Be Announced", Jamie Lachman and Tim Cunningham, Clowns
Without Borders
"Towards an African Renaissance: Offfering a Master's Degree to
Nursing Students in Angola: a Distance Eduction Experience", Juanita
Tjallinks, RN, MCur, in Health Studies, Midwife, Department of Health
Studies, University of South Africa
"Glaucoma Neuroprotection 2008: New Therapies on the Horizon", 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
"Maximizing Limited Resources to Provide Outreach Eye Care", Satya
Verma, OD, FAAO, Director, Community Eye Care, Pennsylvania College of
Optometry
"Collaborating to create the future of family medicine: a
Japanese-American exchange", Jennifer Vines, MD, MPH, Oregon Health
and Science University
"Transcending Trauma & Relentless Compassion: Indicators of
Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) in Peer Support Counselors in Liberia - How
They Help and What They Carry", Gwen Vogel, PsyD, Director of Field
Operations, SalusWorld
"Title To Be Announced", Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic
of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
"Turning Challenges Into Opportunities: The State of Cervical Cancer
Prevention in America 2008", Sarah Wells, MA, Associate Director,
Women in Government
"Protecting Border Security and Health: Effective Strategies for
Monitoring and Treating Malaria among Burma's IDPs", Emily Whichard,
Program Director, Global Health Access Program
"Title To Be Announced", Gavin Yamey, MD, MRCP, Senior Editor, PLoS
Medicine; Consulting Editor, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
"Shoulder to Shoulder Ecuador: A University-Community Partnership for
Health", Claudia Hopenhayn and Thomas Young, MD, Department of
Pediatrics, University of Kentucky; Shoulder to Shoulder
"Title To Be Announced", Debrework Zewdie, PhD, Director, Global
HIV/AIDS Program for the World Bank
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