Global Health & Innovation Conference 2012 at Yale

Date: Saturday, April 21 - Sunday, April 22, 2012
Venue: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. Register during January to secure the lowest registration rate.

The conference's confirmed speakers include:

Keynote Addresses

• Sasha Dichter, Chief Innovation Officer, Acumen Fund
• Seth Goldman, President and TeaEO of Honest Tea
• 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, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University

Design Thinking Speakers

• Gianna Ericson, Senior Design Strategist, Continuum
• Robert Fabricant, Vice President of Creative, Frog Design Inc.
• Erica Kochi, Co-lead, UNICEF Innovations Team
• Patrice Martin, Co-Lead and Creative Director, IDEO.org
• Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford
• Andrew Zolli, Curator, Pop!Tech

Education Initiatives in Global Health Speakers

• Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy & Administration; Director, Global Health Initiative, Yale University
• Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
• Christian Kraeker, MD, FRCPC DTM&H MSc, Department of Internal Medicine, McMaster University
• Cheryl Moyer, MPH, Managing Director, Global REACH; Research Investigator, Department of Medical Education, University of Michigan Medical School

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Environment, Energy, and Food Speakers

• Richard Fuller, President, Blacksmith Institute
• Martin Gordon, MD, FAAAS, Emeritus Chairman and Lifetime Trustee, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Board; Prior Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
• Tony Kalm, Director of Business Development, One Acre Fund
• Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Children's Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Robert Lawrence, MD, The Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Film, Photography, Art & Global Health Speakers

• 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
• Jonathan Kalan, Photojournalist, Founder, The (BoP) Project
• Dawn Sinclair Shapiro, Filmmaker, The Edge of Joy
• Landon Van Soest, Producer, Good Fortune; Filmmaker Transient Pictures

Healthcare Delivery Models

• Shobha Arole, Director, The Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed
• Girdhari Bora, ICT Specialist, Manthan Project, IntraHealth International
• Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Fellow, 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)
• James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
• Al Hammond, co-founder and Chairman of Healthpoint Services and Director of Health for All, Ashoka
• Lakshmi Karan, Director, Global Strategy, Riders for Health
• Charles MacCormack, Executive Chair, Health MDG Alliance
• Tricia Morente, Strategic Advisor, LifeSpring Hospitals
• Mary Beth Powers, Newborn and Child Survival Campaign Chief, Save the Children
• Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Organization Management Speakers

• Nava Ashraf, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• Rifat Atun, Professor of International Health Management, Imperial College London
• Kate Coleman, Chairman and Founder, Right To Sight
• Maurice Segall, JD, Pro Bono Partnership, Inc.

Philanthropy Speakers

• Diana Ayton-Shenker, Founder and CEO, Fast Forward Fund
• Aria Finger, COO, Do Something
• Carol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, MSc, Research Director - Global Public Health, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania
• Aaron Hurst, President and Founder, Taproot Foundation

Social Enterprise Speakers

• Erica Bliss Pattni, Vice President of Marketing, KIND Healthy Snacks
• Kyle Berner, Creator, Feelgoodz LLC
• Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
• Eric Kacou, Co-Founder, ESPartners, Author of Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets
• Jim Koch, Jan and Bill Terry Professor of Management, Leavey School of Business and Administration; Founding Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University
• Ken Lee, Co-founder and Co-owner, Lotus Foods
• Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute and Faculty, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
• Zak Zaidman, Co-Founder and CEO, Kopali Organics

Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

• Ron Bills, Chairman & CEO, Envirofit International
• Michael Fairbanks, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• Peter Haas, Executive Director, AIDG, Inc.
• Laura Herman, Managing Director, FSG
• Paul Light, Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, Robert Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
• Tim Zak, Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Institute for Social Innovation, H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University

Social Media & Marketing Speakers

• Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC's Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, A Gifted Man
• Charlotte Cole, Senior Vice President, Global Education, Sesame Workshop
• Scott Henderson, Managing Director, CauseShift
• Firdaus Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Global Shift

Technology in Global Health Speakers

• Julius Akinyemi, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, MIT Media Lab
• Jeffrey Blander, ScD, President, Bienmoyo Foundation
• Leo Celi, MD, MPH, MS, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division
• Elisabet de los Pinos, Founder and CEO, Aura Biosciences
• 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
• Jose Gomez-Marquez, Co-Founder and Co-Inventor, Aerovax; Co-Founder, X out TB; Lecturer, D-LAB, MIT
• Jessica Haberer, MD, MS, Research Scientist, Harvard Institute for Global Health; Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
• Bobby Jefferson, Health IT Project Manager, Futures Group
• 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, Johns Hopkins Bangladesh; Director, Global mHealth Initiative at Johns Hopkins University
• Alison Martin, Service Delivery Manager, Sproxil, Inc.
• Patricia Mechael, PhD, MHS, Executive Director, mHealth Alliance
• Robert Munro, Chief Technology Officer, EpidemicIQ, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative; and Graduate Fellow, Stanford University
• Aydogan Ozcan, PhD, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
• Una Ryan, OBE, PhD, DSc, CEO, Diagnostics For All
• Youseph Yazdi, PhD, MBA, Executive Director, Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design, Johns Hopkins University

To register, visit http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference