1. Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South/South Collaborations-19th Annual GHEC Conference

   4/9/2010 8:00:00 AM

   1st Latin American and Caribbean Global Health Meeting &
   19th Annual GHEC Conference

    

   Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South Collaboration. Strengthening the Commitment

    

   Hosted by: The National Institute of Public Health of Mexico

   Dates: 9-11 April 2010

   Location: Cuernavaca, Mexico

    

   The recent events surrounding the outbreak of the new Influenza A H1N1 virus exemplify the vital role that cross-country and regional co-operation play in ensuring global health.   Recent years have seen a renewed effort at regional collaboration.  Additionally, the shape of these collaborations is changing from traditional North-South collaborations, characterized by the one-way transfer of technological and financial resources from developed to developing countries, to a theoretically flatter and dynamic regional collaboration, especially among ‘”southern” (or developing) countries. The numerous examples of these new regional networks include:

   • Ibero-American Ministerial Network for Health Research and Education (RIMAIS)
   • Mesoamerican Institute of Public Health
   • Brazil - African lusophone countries health collaboration
     • Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe
   • Andean Integration System
     • Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador y Peru
   • South Cone Network for Health Systems and Services Research
     • Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina
   • Amazonian Cooperation Treaty Organization
     • Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname

    

    

   This conference will capitalize on the INSP’s strategic location linking Anglophone North American countries and the regions of Latin America and the Caribbean to bring together faculty and students from institutions throughout the Americas to share experiences of creating and fostering alliances for global health education.  This 2010 conference will also serve as the 1^st Latin American and Caribbean Global Health Conference, which has the aim of further fostering the discourse related to global health. 

    

   To fulfill the mandate of this initiative, the conference aims to develop a program which reflects the vibrancy and variety of Global Health programs throughout the region, while highlighting the South-South experience in fostering new collaborative mechanisms, using the lessons learned from the emerging pandemic as well as other case studies in the areas of other infectious diseases, maternal health, vaccine-preventable disease, and nutrition (from both perspectives of malnutrition and the growing epidemic of obesity and chronic health problems). This Conference will analyze how South-South  collaborations differ from traditional North-South alliances, examine successes and obstacles to effective functioning of these collaborations and cull lessons that can be learned and adopted by the North. 

    

   The themes that we plan to address in this 2010 conference include:

    

   • The role of institutional alliances in advancing global health education
   • Changing the paradigm of regional cooperation: Are South-South collaborations more horizontal?
   • Ethics and equity issues of collaborations for global health education
   • The advantages and challenges of multi-cultural and cross-cultural collaborations
   • Northern and Southern perspectives on Global Health: arriving at a consensus
   • Development of Global Health competencies: defining the optimal skill set
   • Macroeconomic policies, economic crises and health workforce education: how to feed the demand of developed and developing countries for skilled health care workers
   • Interdisciplinary approaches to global health education: beyond the traditional medical model
   • Content and orientation of global health curricula: regional perspectives

    

   The conference planning committee will particularly seek out abstracts and presentations that address the following cross-cutting issues:

   • Human displacement: migrants, refugees and human trafficking
   • The “Triple Challenge” of epidemiological transition:  infectious disease, chronic disease and accidents and violence
   • Non-communicable and chronic diseases: perspectives from the South and North

2. Global Health & Innovation Summit at Yale

   4/17/2010 8:00:00 AM

   Global Health & Innovation Summit at Yale

   Unite For Sight is pleased to announce that registration and abstract submission are now open for the 2010 Global Health & Innovation Summit, which will be held at Yale on April 17-18, 2010. You are receiving this message because you registered to attend a past Global Health & Innovation Summit, a conference presented annually by Unite For Sight. Please feel free to forward this announcement widely. 

   The 2010 Summit will inspire and engage all participants to exchange ideas and create change.  The upcoming Summit will focus on the newest ideas in innovation, social investing, and cutting-edge ideas and strategies in global health and social entrepreneurship. Opportunities abound to engage with leading innovators and ground-breaking ideas for change.

   Global Health & Innovation Summit
   The World's Leading Idea Incubator For Global Health Innovation

   A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight
   Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
   Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
   
   Registration Now Open (Early Bird Registration Rate):http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

   Call For Abstracts: Submit an abstract online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference  The first deadline for abstract submission is August 15, and the final abstract deadline is September 15.

   "A Meeting of Minds," --CNN

   200 Speakers in April 2010, Including Keynote Addresses by Seth Godin, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Sonia Sachs. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, Share Our Strength, Somaly Mam Foundation, The Fistula Foundation, HealthStore Foundation, and many others.

   What? Join 2,200 people from all 50 states and from more than 60 countries for an innovative, high-impact idea incubator. 
   Who should attend? Anyone interested in global health and inernational development, public health, eye care, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and education.  Students, public health professionals, doctors, educators, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others. 

   Confirmed Keynote Speakers

   "Using The Power of Stories and Tribes To Spread Your Message and Change The World," Seth Godin, MBA, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com

   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 Village Project

   Confirmed Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

   Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation

   Kevin Jones, Co-Founder, Good Capital

   Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something

   Nicholas Lumpp, Cofounder, Somaly Mam Foundation

   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

   Ajay Nair, MBBS, MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund

   Billy Shore, JD, Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength

   Kevin Starr, MD, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation

   Gary White, Executive Director, WaterPartners

   Andrew Wolk, CEO, Root Cause

   Confirmed Featured Speakers

   Jesus Aguais, Executive Director, Aid for AIDS

   Astier Almedom, DPhil, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health

   Agbessi Amouzou, PhD, Assistant Scientist, Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

   Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide

   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

   Bob Bollinger, MD, MPH, Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health; Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkins University

   Kathleen Casey, MD, FACS, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons

   Luz Claudio, MD, Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Chief of the Division of International Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

   Paul Cleary, PhD, Dean of Public Health, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health; Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health

   Gustavo V. de Moraes, MD, Research Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

   Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health and Economic Development, Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Project

   Zoravar Dhaliwal, CEO, Community Lab

   Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnerships

   Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

   Kevin Frick, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

   Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International

   Ilene Gipson, PhD, Senior Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

   Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

   Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation

   Christopher P. Howson, PhD, Vice President for Global Programs, The March of Dimes Foundation

   Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

   Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidmiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health

   Norman Kleiman, PhD, Director, Eye Radiation and Environmental Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

   Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders

   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

   Pamela Lynam, MD, Country Director Kenya, JHPIEGO - Johns Hopkins University

   John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

   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

   Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-USA

   Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health

   Santa Ono, PhD, Sr. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic Affairs, Emory University

   David Oot, Associate Vice President for Health, Save The Children

   Sung Chul Park, MD, Glaucoma Fellow, New York Medical College, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

   Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons

   Steven Phillips, MD, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation

   Maryse B. Pierre-Louis, MD, MPH, MH/HSA, Lead HNP Specialist, Human Development; Coordinator, Booster Program For Malaria Control in Africa, World Bank Africa Region

   Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

   Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

   Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, Rice University

   Majid Sadigh, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

   Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis

   Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US Agency for International Development

   David Spiegel, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

   Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

   John E. Tedstrom, PhD, President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)

   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

   Sheila West, PhD, El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

   David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

   Derek Yach, Vice President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo

    

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