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GLOBAL HEALTH & INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE: Innovation,
Advancement, and Best Practices to Achieve Global Goals
Unite For Sight Fourth Annual International Health Conference
April 14-15, 2007 at Stanford University School of Medicine, California
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/
<http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php>

*More Than 300 Renowned Speakers from North America, Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and Europe
*Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students from 5
continents for an engaging exchange of ideas and best practices.
*When: *April 14-15, 2007
*Where:* Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
*Who should attend?*Anyone interested in eye care, international health,
medicine, health education, health promotion, public health,
international service, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, or
microenterprise
*EARLY BIRD RATE INCREASES AFTER JANUARY 20: *Current Rate is $65
Students/$85 All Others

*COMPLETE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE WITH 300 SPEAKERS:
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php*
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SPEAKER HIGHLIGHTS (20 OF THE 300 SPEAKERS) INCLUDE:
--"Millennium Development Goals, Partnerships, and Eye Care (By
Prepared Videotape)", JEFFREY SACHS, PhD, Director, Earth Institute at
Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development;
Professor of Health Policy and Management

--"Challenges in Public Health: From Smallpox and Polio Eradication
to SARS and Avian Influenza", DAVID HEYMANN, MD, MPH, Former Executive
Director for Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization

--"Public Private Partnerships to Advance Technologies for Neglected
Disease", CHRISTOPHER ELIAS, MD, MPH, President of PATH

--"The Right to Health: Towards Social Inclusion and Universal
Health Care in Latin America", ARACHU CASTRO, PhD, MPH, Assistant
Professor of Social Medicine, Academic Director; Program in Infectious
Disease and Social Change, Harvard Medical School / Partners in Heath

--"The War on AIDS - Integration Equals Impact", GEORGE GUIMARAES,
President and CEO, Project Concern International

--"Critical Health Issues in the 21st Century", SUSAN BLUMENTHAL,
MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical
Center

--"The Neglected Tropical Diseases: New Promise For Their Control",
PETER HOTEZ, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Microbiology
and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University

--"Microfinance and Health: New Synergies and Opportunities", ALEX
COUNTS, President, Grameen Foundation USA

--"Public Private Partnerships to Provide Safe Drinking Water in
Africa", GREG ALLGOOD, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water,
Procter & Gamble

--"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the
Developing World", TERRY BLASCHKE, MD, Professor of Medicine and
Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University

--"Technology Social Entrepreneurship", JIM FRUCHTERMAN, Chairman
and Founder, The Benetech Initiative

--"International Women's Health and Human Rights", ANNE FIRTH
MURRAY, Founding President, The Global Fund for Women; Consulting
Professor, Human Biology Program, Stanford University

--"High Quality Eye Care To The Most Marginalized Populations: The
Challenges and Possible Solutions", GULLAPALLI N. RAO, MD, Chairman,
Board of Trustees and President, International Agency for the Prevention
of Blindness; Distinguished Chair of Eye Health, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute

--"Impossible Dreams - The First Ascent of the East Face of Mt.
Everest and Eradicating Blindness in Mountainous Asia", GEOFFREY TABIN,
MD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Director of the
Division of International Ophthalmology, John A. Moran Eye Center,
University of Utah; Co-Director and Founder, Himalayan Cataract Project

--"Eye Care at Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana", JAMES CLARKE., MD,
Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

--"Global Progress in Preventing the Burden of Blindness and Other
Diseases Caused by Measles and Rubella", STEPHEN L. COCHI, MD, MPH,
Senior Advisor, Global Immunization Division, National Immunization
Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

--"Is Women's Health a Human Right?", MINI MURTHY, MD, MPH, MS,
Assistant Professor of Practice,New York Medical College School of
Public Health

--"Young Leaders In Action: Tomorrow's Leaders But Also Today's",
WILLIAM REESE, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation

--"Community Programs With Vision", DAVID WERNER, PhD, Co-Founder,
Director of HealthWrights (Workgroup for People's Health and Rights);
Visiting Professor at Boston University International School of Public
Health; Author, "Where There Is No Doctor"

--"Medical Discovery and Social Justice: Linking Child Health with
Child Rights", PAUL WISE, MD, MPH, Richard E. Berhman Professor of Child
Health and Society, Stanford University

Hundreds of Conference Sessions For Anyone Interested In:
*Global Health
*International Development
*Millennium Development Goals
*Public Health
*Overseas Volunteering
*Health and Human Rights
*Refugee Health
*Women's Health
*HIV/AIDS
*Infectious Disease
*Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship
*Nonprofits
*Health in Africa
*Health in Asia
*Health in Latin America
*Global Eye Care and Vision 2020
*Glaucoma Symposium


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