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We hope to see you at the 16th annual
Unite For Sight Global
Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on April 13-14, 2019, and
we are delighted to announce the keynote speakers. The Global Health & Innovation
Conference convenes nearly 2,000 participants and more than 300 presentations
about global health, responsible global engagement, social entrepreneurship,
and innovation. We hope to see you at the conference in April, and you
may register
by March 31 for a 15% reduced rate. We would appreciate it if you
please forward this message widely to your colleagues and students.
"The
Moral Obligation of Optimism to Fuel the Fight for the Sustainable
Development Goals"
Agnes Binagwaho is the Vice Chancellor and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Global Health Equity, an initiative of Partners In Health focused on changing the way health care is delivered around the world by training the next generation of global health professionals who strive to deliver more equitable, quality health services for all. She is a Rwandan pediatrician who worked for 20 years in the public health sector in Rwanda, first as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission, then as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and then for five years as Minister of Health. She serves as Senior Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization and, since 2016, has been a member of the United States National Academy of Medicine and, since 2017, a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.
"The
Two Most Important Days: Reflections on Leadership, Happiness and Living with
Purpose"
Sanjiv Chopra is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and served as Faculty Dean for Continuing Education for twelve years. He’s also the James Tullis Firm Chief, Department of Medicine, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is a best selling author, is considered an expert on leadership, and has written the acclaimed book "Leadership by Example: The Ten Key Principles of All Great Leaders."
"Health
Care in the Age of Climate Crisis"
Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for thirty-five years. He has helped build coalitions and networks globally to address the health impacts related to toxic chemical exposure and climate change. Gary is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm, Practice Greenhealth, and Greenhealth Exchange. All three organizations were created to help transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and anchor institutions to support health and resilience in the communities they serve. In 2013, he was awarded the Champion of Change Award for Climate Change and Public Health by the White House. In 2015, he received a MacArthur Fellowship and was a recipient of a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
"Truth
or Dare: The Secret Behind Impact"
Jordan Levy is the Chief External Relations Officer at Ubuntu Pathways. He has spent the past 15 years professionalizing Ubuntu’s grassroots service delivery model, which places South Africa's most vulnerable children on pathways out of poverty from cradle to career. He has contributed to numerous platforms—including The Guardian, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and his own “Failures from the Field” podcast—to challenge the status quo in the development sector and change the way we think about scale, impact, and sustainability.
"Sustainable
Development Goals and Health as a Human Right"
Joia Mukherjee is a physician, clinical researcher, and educator trained in Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and public health at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Division of Global Health Equity and in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She founded and directs the Masters in Medical Science in Global Health Delivery at Harvard Medical School. Since 2000, she has served as the Chief Medical Officer of Partners In Health, an international medical charity with programs in the United States, Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Navajo nation. As Chief Medical Officer of PIH, Joia coordinates and supports PIH’s efforts to provide high quality, comprehensive health care to the poorest and most vulnerable. |
