Global Health and Social Innovation Conference at Yale

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Many of you may be interested in this international "Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation" conference to be held at Yale University. Please forward widely.Register Online For 6th Annual Global Health Conference. Registration rate increases monthly."Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation"Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USAhttp://www.uniteforsight.org/conferenceThe Unite For Sight Conference is what CNN calls "A Meeting of Minds"200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Blumenthal, Kristof, Dr. Sachs, Dr. Sachs, Dr. Al Sommer, and Dr. Harold Varmus. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers, and many others.CME, CNE, and CPE Credits will be available for select conference sessions.Unite For Sight's conference convenes a committed vanguard of 2,500 people from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative solutions to achieve global goals.Confirmed Keynote Speakers"Global Health Challenges and Opportunities," Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at town School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center; Senior Medical Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research; Chair, Global Health Program, Meridian International Center"The Challenges of Development and Making Aid Work," Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times 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 Villages: Update," Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project"Preventing Blindness; Saving Lives," Al Sommer, MD, MHS, Professor and Dean Emeritus, s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health"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 RecipientConfirmed Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers"Unite For Sight: Social Entrepreneurship As A Symbol of Hope for the (Poor) Blind Villagers and Refugees in Ghana," e, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana"Strategic Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Advancing Global Health," Greg Dees, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and co-founder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business"Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems," Devin, JD, MPH, Director of Programs, VillageReach"Improving Public Health Delivery Through Social Entrepreneurship," Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers"The HealthStore Foundation: Improving Access to Life-Saving Medicines through Micro-Franchising," Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation"The Impact of the Food and Nutrition Crisis on the Global Health Agenda," MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children"Health Care From The Grassroots," 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 HospitalPlus 200 more renowned featured speakers: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference