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On April 12-13, 2008 individuals are invited to attend a Unite for Sight international conference at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, with keynote addresses by Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Dr. Allan Rosenfield, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, and Dr. Sonia Sachs and more than 180 other featured speakers.
Unite for Sight says that the conference will be of interest to “Anyone interested in international health, public health, international development, medicine, nonprofits, eye care, philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, economics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, environmental health, service-learning, medical education, and public service.”
Keynote Addresses
- "Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century," 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
- "Issues in Global Women's Health," Allan Rosenfield,MD, Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
- "Common Wealth: Economics For A Crowded Planet," 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
Unite For Sight® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. Local and visiting volunteers work with partner eye clinics to provide eye care in communities without previous access, with the goal of creating eye disease-free communities. Additionally, vision screening and education programs are implemented worldwide by volunteers working in ninety chapters established at universities in North America, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Unite For Sight's eye care programs are featured weekly on CNN International.
During 2007, Unite For Sight provided eye care for more than 200,000 patients while coordinating and funding 6,032 surgeries. Combined in 2006 and 20007, Unite For Sight restored sight to 10,062 previously blind patients. In addition to Unite for Sight's measurable impact, there is an equally compelling achievement. The organization has found a way to unite doctors, nurses, students, and other people, especially younger people, across borders, across economic status, and across professional lines. Unite For Sight rethinks the delivery of eye care and creates a more resourceful and efficient model for screening and treating patients that utilizes volunteers to serve as support staff for the outreach programs coordinated by eye clinics. This new form of delivery reduces all of the barriers to health care, including financial, transportation, and education barriers. All patients with eye disease receive treatment and surgery by the local eye clinic, which is funded by Unite For Sight. The model reduces costs and expands the ability of all people to “Unite For Sight” and help in the fight against blindness.
Unite For Sight’s Annual Global Health Conference convenes more than 2,000 people interested in public health, global health, international development, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, philanthropy, microfinance, medicine, human rights, anthropology, education, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and eye care.
“This empowering, energizing conference brings together students, doctors, nurses, Peace Corps volunteers, public health, business, and nonprofit professionals, anthropologists, policy makers, philanthropists, educators, and others, says Jennifer Staple, Founder, President and CEO, of Unite for Sight.
The Fifth Annual Conference at Yale University will include more than 180 speakers and 2,000 conference attendees.
The complete conference schedule is at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
Register For Conference - EARLY BIRD RATE ( $79 students, $105 all others) Register at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/2008 REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. RATE INCREASES AFTER FEBRUARY 29TH
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| Photo credit: Unite For Sight® |
