Grassroots Initiatives for Global Health conference at MIT Feb. 8th, free admission!

February 3rd, 2014 in Conferences/Seminars

GlobeMed at MIT is proud to invite you to our first conference…

Grassroots Initiatives for Global Health

Saturday, February 8^th, 2014

9:30am to 4:30pm

MIT Room 6-120

Learn more and register at: globemed.mit.edu/2014-conference

GlobeMed at MIT is proud to invite you to our first conference, where we explore the importance of a grassroots initiatives approach to global health. We have some great speakers lined up, as you’ll see on the itinerary listed below.

We hope that this event will serve as a great chance to learn from those seasoned in the field, a forum for the exchange of ideas, and an excellent networking opportunity. While the event is geared towards Boston-area students and local global health professionals, it is open to the public and we encourage anyone interested to attend! The conference is free of charge.

We ask that you register no later than January 31^st via this form. Please register ASAP as we will be forced to close registration should we reach capacity.

For more detailed information and speaker bios, please visit the event webpage here. Also feel free to contact either Emma Broderick at efb@mit.edu or Rafa Rahman at rahmanr@mit.edu.

Itinerary 

9:30am – 10:00am  Event Check-in

10:00am – 10:10am  Opening Remarks by GlobeMed at MIT

10:10am -10:30am  Opening Speech by Liana Woskie of Harvard Initiative on Global Health Quality

10:30am – 11:30am  Panel: Boston-area Global Health Organizations

·  Moderator: Owen Robinson of Haiti Cardiac Alliance (HCA)

·  Adam Korn of Save a Child’s Heart

·  Ann Peralta of the Peace Corps

·  Partners in Health

11:30am – 12:30pm  Lunch

12:30pm – 1:30pm  Break-out Sessions

·  Amee Amin and Suchitra Kulkarni of Article 25

·  Jose Gomez-Marquez of Little Devices @ MIT

·  Jon Shaffer of Partners in Health

·  Jenny Schechter and Kevin Fiori of Hope through Health

·  GlobeMed at Boston College 

·  GlobeMed at MIT

1:45pm – 3:45pm  Screening of Pray the Devil Back to Hell and Q&A with director Gini Reticker

3:45pm – 4:15pm  Closing Speech by Peter Luckow of Last Mile Health

Devex International Development Career Forum in DC on March 28th

January 31st, 2014 in Conferences/Seminars

Apply now to attend the Devex Career Forum on Friday, March 28.

Why should you attend?

• By attending the event, you'll have the opportunity to network with recruiters from 60+ exhibiting organizations and gain practical advice for your personal career development through a panel discussion, and various breakout sessions on everything from how to create a recruiter-ready CV, to what trends are likely to impact development hiring in 2014.

Who should attend?

• This event is for mid- to senior-level professionals with 7+ years of experience in development. 

 *Please note that you must apply to attend. Once you've applied, your qualifications will be reviewed by Devex recruiters, and you will be notified directly via email if you are accepted to attend.  

Attendance Fees: 

• Free to Devex members with a Career Account (pending application acceptance)
• Upgrade to a Career Account for $114 (annual fee) and your attendance fee will be waived
• Standard attendance fee is $49

Click Here to Apply Now

USAID Global Health Fellows Program Webinar February 12th

January 29th, 2014 in Conferences/Seminars

Call for abstracts Health and Social Justice Student Poster Session at APHA

January 29th, 2014 in Conferences/Seminars

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

HEALTH & SOCIAL JUSTICE STUDENT POSTER SESSION

American Public Health Association Spirit of 1848 Caucus 

Abstracts due: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014

To submit: http://www.apha.org/meetings/sessions/

For APHA 2014, THE SPIRIT OF 1848 SOCIAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC HEALTH STUDENT POSTER SESSION is having an *open call for abstracts* (due Wed, February 12, 2014) for posters that highlight the intersection between social justice and public health from a historical, theoretical, epidemiological, ethnographic, and/or methodological perspective (whether quantitative or qualitative).  It was at APHA 2002 that the Spirit of 1848, eight years after its founding in 1994, first sponsored a student poster session, to formalize our recognition that engaging the next generation is critical for continuing and expanding the work linking social justice and public health.

We welcome abstracts on topics ranging from public health research to public health practice to student-initiated courses on connections between social justice & public health. Given the theme of this year’s APHA meeting (“Healthography: How where you live affects your health and well-being”), we encourage abstracts that critically examine the importance of “place,” broadly defined, as it relates to the social determinants of health in research and practice.

We accordingly are seeking abstracts from students of public health and health related programs, as well as enrolled in non-health-specific disciplines such as urban planning, demography, sociology, and geography. The work presented can be global, country-specific, or local.

-- We encourage students at ALL levels of training to submit abstracts, whether undergraduates, MPH or other master students, medical or nursing students, or doctoral students; submissions will be judged in accordance to expectations appropriate for each level of training. Postdoctoral fellows are NOT eligible to submit posters.  

-- Abstracts should focus on furthering understanding and action to address the ways that social inequality harms, and social equity improves, the public’s health. Examples of social inequality include inequitable social divisions within societies based on social class, race/ethnicity, nativity, Indigenous and immigrant status, gender, and sexuality, as well as inequitable relations between nations and geographical regions. 

--This session will take place at the 142nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, in New Orleans, LA on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 in the 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm APHA time slot. 

--Reminder: for this session we are issuing an *open call for abstracts*: all posters for this session will be selected from abstracts submitted in response to this “call for abstracts.” Please note that if your abstract is accepted we expect you to present your poster at the APHA conference. If you are not able to attend we ask that you find someone to stand in for you so that we can maintain a full program. 

-- Abstracts are due on February 12, 2014

-- Abstract word limit: 250 words

-- All relevant instructions can be found at the APHA abstract submission website; see: http://www.apha.org/meetings/sessions/

For any questions about this session, please contact Spirit of 1848 Coordinating Committee members Tabashir Sadegh-Nobari (tabashir@ucla.edu), Allegra Gordon (argordon@mail.harvard.edu), or Jake Coffey (JCoffey@uams.edu).

More Info:

142nd Annual APHA Meeting
Theme: Healthography: How where you live affects your health and well-being

Nov. 15-19, 2014

New Orleans, LA

www.spiritof1848.org

www.apha.org

DIH’s Public Health Forum February 12th with guest Tobias Rinke de Wit from PharmAccess

January 29th, 2014 in Conferences/Seminars

All students are invited to the BUSPH Public Health Forum hosted by the Department of International Health on Wednesday, February 12th. Please share this event with others in the community who may find this of interest.

Development of ARV Resistance and the Implications for HIV Treatment and Prevention Programs

Boston University School of Public Health Forum 

Wednesday, February 12^th 12:30-1:20pm

Keefer Auditorium in the Boston University School of Medicine

72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118

With guest Tobias Rinke de Wit, PhD, Professor Sustainable Healthcare in Resource-poor Settings, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Since 2001, Dr. Tobias Rinke de Wit has been the Director Research at PharmAccess Foundation based in the Netherlands, as well as a Principal Investigator at the Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam. He specializes in HIV/AIDS with a focus on affordable diagnostics, HIV epidemiology and HIV drug resistance. Between 1990 and 2000 he was Senior Scientist and Associated Professor in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, working on tuberculosis, leprosy, leishmaniasis and HIV/AIDS, and has directed a number of studies involving health insurance in Africa. He is a Professor at the University of Amsterdam in Sustainable Healthcare and Affordable Diagnostics. He directs the PASER study, the largest study of HIV drug resistance in Africa. He will report on the study findings and the implications for HIV treatment programs.

GHEP event tomorrow 1/29-all DIH students welcome to attend!

January 28th, 2014 in Conferences/Seminars

GHEP Global Health Speaker Series presents:

Dr. Curt Nordgaard - Just Health Network: Global Health in Uganda 

Dr. Curt Nordgaard, a pediatric resident at BMC, is here to share his work founding and working for the Just Health Network, a non-profit organization that supports grassroots health and wellness projects around the globe. While a medical student Dr. Nordgaard founded this organization, which works to strengthen the health care systems of northern Uganda, a region recovering from decades of war and associated atrocities. He will just be returning from his trip to Uganda and will be discussing his work there and global health and non-profit work that students can get involved in! 

DATE: 1/29

Time: 1-2 PM

Location: L209 

Lunch will be served! 

Pardee Center Task Force Report “Remittances to Post-Conflict States: Perspectives on Human Security and Development”

January 22nd, 2014 in Conferences/Seminars

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University invites you to a lunch seminar on Tuesday, Feb. 4 titled "Remittances for Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development". This seminar will build on the 2013 Pardee Center Task Force Report "Remittances to Post-Conflict States: Perspectives on Human Security and Development" and will be cosponsored by the BU Center for Finance, Law & Policy.

Seminar panelists include:

Prof. John R. Harris (Task Force co-convener), Boston University, Economics

Donald F. Terry (Task Force co-convener), Boston University, School of Law

Daivi Rodima-Taylor (Task Force lead researcher), Boston University, African Studies Center

Prof. Nikos Passas, Northeastern University, Criminology and Criminal Justice

For more details and to register, visit: http://www.bu.edu/pardee/2014/01/17/remittances-seminar/

Seating for this event is limited. Please register at the web site above. Lunch will be available beginning at 11:30 am and the seminar will run from 12-1:30. 

Global Health & Innovation Conference Presented by Unite for Sight, April 12th & 13th

January 21st, 2014 in Conferences/Seminars

Global Health & Innovation Conference
Presented by Unite For Sight, 11th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 12 - Sunday, April 13, 2014

"A Meeting of Minds"--CNN

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 by January 31 to secure the lowest registration rate: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

Interested in presenting at the conference? Submit a social enterprise pitch abstract for consideration.

The conference's confirmed speakers include:

Keynote Addresses

• "Reducing Toxins to Protect Health: A Global Concern," Arlene Blum, PhD, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley; Green Science Policy Institute
• "Of Course it Matters, and We Know You Care, But Now, What are You Going To Do About It?" Seth Godin, Blogger, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com
• Gary Hirshberg, Co-Founder and CEO, Stonyfield Farms
• Michael Moss, Investigative Reporter, New York Times
• Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute, 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, Columbia University

Business Principles in Global Health Speakers

• "Applying Business Principles to Global Health: Starting with the Customer," Amy Lockwood, Chief of Staff to the Director of Research, UCSF, Global Health Sciences
• "Linking Health Impact to the Business Decision-Making Process," Kim Longfield, Director, Research and Metrics, Population Services International
• "Price Expectation and Willingness to Pay for Health Products in Uganda," Margaret McConnell, Assistant Professor of Global Health Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Heatlh
• "Bringing to Light Hidden Incentives and Disincentives in Global Health," Grant Miller, PhD, MPP, Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor of Economics and of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, FSI; Core Faculty Member, CHP/PCOR

Design Thinking Speakers

• "Fingerprints & Funny Bones: How Technology, Celebrities and Marketing 3.0 Got Us to a 96% HCT Rate in South Africa," Cal Bruns, CEO/Chief Creative Incubationist, Matchboxology
• "The Laddoo Project: Embedding Sustainable Health Interventions in Low-Income Communities," Ramsey Ford, Visiting Assistant Professor, Industrial Design, University of Cincinnati; Design Director, Design Impact
• "Using Human-Centered Design to Drive Innovations in Family Planning: IDEO.org + MSI," Jade Gray, Business Development Associate, Ideo.org
• "Creating Our Way to Wellbeing for Individuals, Corporations, and Communities," Cheryl Heller, Chair, MFA Design for Social Innovation, School of Visual Arts; Partner, CommonWise
• "Designing Change: Using Design Thinking to Rethink Public Initiatives in Mexico," Jamie Jones, Clinical Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Practice, Director of Social Entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management
• "The Future of Healthcare Systems: A Designer's Perspective," Kenneth Kaplan, MSW, MArch, HP, Senior Health System Advisor, PTSI Project; Sociotechnical Systems Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• "Great Products, By Design: Bringing Design Thinking to Product Management in Order to Create Products that Change the World," Jon Kolko, Director, Austin Center for Design
• "See What Your Words Say: Translating Foreign Aid into Domestic Support," Bob McKinnon, President GALEWiLL Design; Director, the GALEWiLL Center for Opportunity & Progress
• "Application of Design Thinking to Global Health Device Development: A Discussion of a Risk Matrix Method to Navigate through the ‘Valley of Death’ from Concept to Manufacturing and Marketing," Robert Miros, CEO, 3rd Stone Design Inc.
• "Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Case for Human Centered Design," Meira Neggaz, Senior Program Officer, MSI-US
• "Designing Effective Strategies for Global Health Communication,"Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor, Visual Communication Design, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford; Founder, Design Global Change

Environment Health, Energy, Food and Agriculture Speakers

• "Framing Smokeless Tobacco Differently: From Curative to Toxic," Mira Aghi, PhD, Behavioral Scientist; Communication Expert
• "Redesigning Regional Food Systems for Public Health," Michael Conard, RA, NCARB, Senior Principal, Design + Urbanism Architectural, LLC; Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
• Bonnie McClafferty, Director, Agriculture and Nutrition, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
• "Eggcrate UV: A Novel, More Efficient Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation System for Air Disinfection in Occupied Rooms," Sonya Milonova, Research Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health
• "Indoor Pollution and Health: Evaluating the Effects of Smokeless Stoves on Rural Communities in Central Honduras," Rommy Michelle Porras, Pediatrics, Georgetown University Hospital
• "Farmers First: Proven Methods to Increase the Productivity of Africa's Smallholder Farmers," Barrett Prinz, Director, Global Human Resources and Legal, One Acre Fund
• "Glyphosate: The Elephant in the Room," Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Film, Photography, Art & Global Health Speakers

• "500 Years," Paco de Onis, Producer, Skylight Pictures
• "Patient Empowerment: How the Visually Impaired Can Become Better Advocates for Themselves...And for Their Service Providers," Joseph Lovett, Producer/Director, Going Blind
• "Flipping the Narrative About Global Health: Engaging Creative Communities to Tell New Development Stories," Lisa Russell, Emmy-Winning Filmmaker and Global Health Advocate, Governess Films

Healthcare Delivery Models and Impact Measurement

• "Making a Cure as Common as a Coca-Cola," Eric Bing, MD, PhD, MBA, Senior Fellow & Director, Global Health, George W. Bush Institute; Professor of Global Health, Southern Methodist University, Co-Author Pharmacy on a Bicycle: Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty
• "What Does the Cuban System Have to Offer the World in the 21st Century?" Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Senior Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University, Grenada; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC); formerly Special Assistant to the President of the US for Health Issues; Assistant Secretary General, United Nations
• "Improving Access to Malaria Diagnostic Testing in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities," Jessica Cohen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health; Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings Institution; Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Center for International Development; Malaria Technical Adviser, Clinton Health Access Initiative; Co-Founder, TAMTAM Africa, Inc.
• "Leveraging a Vertical National Quality Improvement Program in Haiti to Spread Quality Improvement Across Clinical Care," Jean Paul Joseph, Quality Improvement Coordinator and Monitoring Evaluation Officer, Zanmi Lasante/Partners In Health
• "Access to Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACT) Remain Low in a Rural District of Uganda Despite the Introduction of Subsidy Schemes to Make ACTs More Affordable through the Private Sector," Rosemin Kassam, BSc Pharm, Pharm D, RPh, ACPR, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health; Global Health, Cross-Cultural Health Delivery, Medication Management, and Health Promotion Research, The University of British Columbia
• "A Vaccine to Prevent HIV: When and How," John McGoldrick, Chair, Zimmer Holdings, Inc.; Special Advisor, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
• "Impact of Managed Transport on Health Logistics, Productivity and Equity in Southern Zambia: An Evaluation Using an Interrupted Time Series Design," Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH, Faculty Affiliate, Global Supply Chain Management Forum, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
• "Using a Point-of-Care EMR for Primary Care Surveillance at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti," Gabou Mendy, Mirebalais University Hospital Director, Zanmi Lasante/Partners In Health
• "Behavioral Economics: A Toolkit for Rational Health Decisions and Methods in Resource Poor Countries," Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor, USAID, Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and the Environment
• "Funding, Partnerships, and Access: Innovative Approaches to Bring Medicines to Emerging Markets and Developing Countries," Adam Schechter, Executive Vice President and President, Global Human Health, Merck & Co.
• "From Zero to Something: Building a Global Health Program from Scratch," Harsh Sule, MD, MPP, Assistant Professor and Director of International Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University & Hospitals
• "Perspectives on Health Policies and Programs in Ghana," Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Friends Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
• "Practical Performance Management for Poverty Related Organizations: The Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®)", Steve Wright, VP Poverty Tools and Insights, Grameen Foundation

Health Education and University Education Initiatives in Global Health Speakers

• "Global Education for American Medical Students," Susan Hall Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Medical Studies, Yale School of Medicine; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Studies, Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale Health; Medical Director of Eye Department, Cornell Scott Hill Health Center
• "Redefining Scale," Jordan Levy, Managing Director, Ubuntu Education Fund
• "Teaching Global Health: What Should We Teach and How Can We Teach It?" Richard Skolnik, Lecturer, Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health; Author, "Essentials of Global Health/Global Health 101"
• Accompaniment in Healthcare Change: Why One Time Educational Training Interventions in Primary Care are Just Not Enough in Rural East Africa, Monica Slinkard, MSN, ANP-BC, WHNP-BC, Medical Director, LifeNet International

Health Policy & Advocacy

• "Malaria Advocacy: Shining a Spotlight on Public and Private Sector Leadership in Africa," Hannah Bowen, Director of Policy & Advocacy, Malaria No More
• "The Paradox of Universal Health Access," Elizabeth Bradley, Professor of Public Health, Yale University; Master, Branford College; Faculty Director, Yale Global Health Leadership Institute
• "Do You Want to Make a Profound Difference on Global Health and Climate Change? Reclaiming Our Democracy Matters More than You Think!" Sam Daley-Harris, CEO, Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation, A Project of RESULTS Educational Fund
• "Nutrition and the Politics of Food," Michael Jacobson, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest
• "Organizing, Leadership, and Politics: Building a Social Movement for Health as a Human Right," Jon Shaffer, Community Engagement Coordinator, Partners In Health
• "Innovations in Healthcare Management and Patient Centered Care," Richard Siegrist, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Associate Academic Director, MHCM Program; Adjunct Lecturer on Health Care Management, Harvard School of Public Health
• "Not All Advocates are Activists: The Power of Unlikely Leaders in the Health Sector," Katy Spencer, Director of Business Development, Change.org
• "How to Restore Trust and Social Responsibility in Medicine," Leana Wen, MD, MSc, Director, Patient-Centered Care Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University
• "Cochrane: The Next 20 Years and the Future of Systematic Reviews," Mark Wilson, CEO, The Cochrane Collaboration

Maternal and Child Health Speakers

• "How to Lead with Vision and Still Manage an Organization: Chief Creative Officer's Challenges," Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
• "The Role of the Private Sector in the Provision of Maternal and Child Care in Latin America," Alejandro Arrieta, PhD, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, Florida International University
• "Correlates of Complete Childhood Vaccinations in East African Countries," Maureen Canavan, PhD, MPH, Associate Research Scientist, Yale University School of Public Health
• "Maternal Mortality in South Asia: How an Indian State Almost Beat the American National Capital," Savita Chandra, Professor and Head, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Goa Medical College and Hospital
• "Shifting the Focus: Lessons from Leveraging Technology for Maximal Effect in Addressing Postpartum Hemorrhage," Claire Cole, MPH, Technical Documentation Advisor, Pathfinder International
• "Low-Cost HPV Testing: Developing a National Screen-and-Treat Program in a Low-Resource Setting," Lauren Ditzian, MS, Director of Programs & Operations, Basic Health International
• "Postnatal Kits for Medical Consultations Within Six Days After Delivery in Haiti: An Innovative Strategy that Could Help Reduce Infant and Maternal Mortality," Colin Gilmartin, Technical Officer, Management Sciences for Health
• "Clinical Evaluation: Combined Visual Inspection and Pap for Cervical Cancer Prevention," Susan Howe, MPH, Epidemiologist, Clínica Fara, Matagalpa, Nicaragua
• "Advancing Abortion Access in Hostile Environments: New Approaches from a Holistic Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Framework," Ellen Israel, Senior Technical Advisor for Women's Health and Rights, Pathfinder International
• "Innovators in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Profiles of the Capable and Committed in Communities around the World," Latanya Mapp Frett, Vice President, Global Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• "The NTDs, Girls and Women, and Blue Marble Health," Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, Professor in Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine; Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital; President, Sabin Vaccine Institute; Director, Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development; Baker Institute Fellow in Disease and Poverty, Rice University
• "'H' is for Health: Sesame Street’s Efforts to Promote Children’s Health around the World," June Lee, Assistant Vice President of Global Research, Sesame Workshop
• "Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Maternal and Child Health Outcomes," Tricia Morente, COO, Kangu
• "Transforming Medical Education on a Grand Scale: The Rwandan Human Resources for Health Program," Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Past Chair, AAP Section International Child Health Executive Committee; Director, Nurseries at Middlesex Hospital
• "Helping Infertile Couples in Low Resource Countries with Low Cost Programs," Pasquale Patrizio, Professor of Obestrics and Gynecology, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Fertility Center
• Jose Rimon, Deputy Director and Visiting Professor, Bill and Melinda Gates Institute, Population and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
• "Closing the Gap: Reaching Rural Women with Family Planning Options," Mindy Skelton, Field Operations Officer, Lwala Community Alliance; MPH Candidate, John Hopkins University
• "Maternal Determinants of Timely Vaccination Coverage Among Infants in Rural Bangladesh," Lavanya Vasudevan, PhD, MPH, CPH, Research Scholar, Duke Global Health Institute; Associate, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• "Improving Maternal Outcomes in Resource Poor Rural Environments: A Case Study in Tanzania," Linda Winkler, PhD, MPH, Special Assistant to the Provost: Director of International Outreach, Wilkes University

Mental and Neurological Health Speakers

• "From Visibility to Transformation: Global Mental Health and the Post-2015 Agenda," Gary Belkin, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Director, Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine; Senior Director for Psychiatric Services, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
• "The Role of Mixed Research Methodologies in Global Mental Health Research," Christina Borba, PhD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School; The Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry; The MGH Schizophrenia Program
• More speakers to be announced
• "Bringing Care to Where the Patient Is: Building a Community-Based Model of Epilepsy Care into a Government Health Care System in Haiti," Shin Daimyo, MPH, Clinical Program Officer, Partners In Health
• "Prevention of Brain Disorders: A Global Priority," Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH, Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Other Non-Communicable Diseases Speakers

• "Instituting Thrombolytics for STEMI in Low Income Settings: Lessons Learned from American Samoa," David Bouslough, MD, MPH, FACEP, Assistant Clinical Professor, Director, Division of International Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Director of Life Support Education, Clinical Advisor for Emergency Medicine, Emergency Preparedness, and Palliative Care, LBJ Tropical Medical Center, American Samoa
• "Why NCDs Matter to Business: The Private Sector's Role, Resources, and Responsibilities," Eve Heyn, Manager of Communications & External Affairs, GBCHealth
• "Building Integrated Systems for NCDs in Rwanda and Haiti," Gene Kwan, MD, Clinical Fellow, Boston Medical Center and Partners In Health
• "Advances and Collaborative Opportunities in Global Eye Health Research," Gyan "John" Prakash, PhD, MBA, Associate Director, International Programs, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
• "MisLEAD: America’s Secret Epidemic," Tamara Rubin, Executive Director, Lead Safe America Foundation
• "Give Me Vision: I Will Show You A Path," Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye Hospital, NYSASDRI, India; Unite For Sight Partner
• "Game Change: Leveraging Chronic Disease Prevention to Improve US Health and Competitiveness," Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, DSc, Executive Director, The Vitality Institute

Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Speakers

• "Writing for Medical and Global Health Journals: An Insider’s View ," Jocalyn Clark, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
• "The Irrational Health Consumer: Understanding and Addressing Underinvestment in Preventative Health," Rachel Glennerster, PhD, Director, J-PAL Global; Scientific Director, J-PAL Africa; Co-Chair, Agriculture
• "From Counting to Quality: Integration and Transformation of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement Systems Across Partners In Health," Lisa Hirschhorn, Monitoring, Evaluation & Quality Improvement Director, Partners In Health
• "Vision Rehabilitation in Glaucoma: Research Opportunities and Challenges," James 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
• "Rethinking the Role of Research in Enhancing State Capability for Implementation," Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Development Specialist, Development Research Group, The World Bank

Philanthropy and Investment Speakers

• "Re-Imagining Philanthropy for Global Health," Diana Ayton-Shenker, Founder and CEO, Fast Forward Fund
• "Building an Impactful Micro-Enterprise Development Organization in Small, Remote, Pacific Island Communities," Greg Casagrande, Founder, MicroDreams
• "The Inventor’s Pathway: How Technology Ideas Turn into Products and Businesses that Improve Lives," Carol Dahl, PhD, Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation
• "A Point of Historic Opportunity: Making the Case for Investments in AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria," Deborah Derrick, President, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• "The Role of Government Funding for Innovative Projects/Enterprises in Global Health," Omer Imtiazuddin, Global Health and Impact Investing Consultant
• "A Donor’s Toolkit to Promote Change," Judith Helzner, Director, Population and Reproductive Health, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• "Social Return on Investment (SROI) in Global Health & Development: A New Framework for Valuing What Matters," Shubha Kumar, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor & Director of Programs, University of Southern California (USC)
• "Responsible Investment in the 21st Century: Recent Trends and Developments," Steve Lydenberg, Founding Director, Initiative for Responsible Investment, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University
• "Mainstreaming Impact Investment: Catalyzing Capital for a More Inclusive Society," Abigail Noble, Impact Investing, Alternative Investing and New Economic Thinking, World Economic Forum
• "Pay for Performance in Global Health," Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University

Social Enterprise Speakers

• "Games to Reach Beyond the Converted: The Half the Sky Movement," Asi Burak, President, Games for Change; Faculty, SVA, Design for Social Innovation
• "Runa: Sustainable Sourcing and Brand Development," Tyler Gage, Co-Founder and President, Runa
• "Trend Cycles in Natural Food: How Niche Needs Grow to Change how America Eats," Ian Kelleher, Co-Founder and Director of Sales, Peeled Snacks
• "Experiments in Scaling Social Benefit," Thane Kreiner, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University; Howard and Alida Charney University Professor of Science and Technology for Social Benefit, Santa Clara University
• "Achieving Viability Through Utterly Unreasonable & Idealistic Aspirations," Rodney North, The Answer Man - Information for the Public and Media, Equal Exchange Coop
• "Lessons Learned from Managing De-Centralized Mini-Grids for Electrification: What is Next?" Manoj Sinha, Co-Founder, Husk Power Systems
• "Wake Up. Go to Work. Save the World." Arran Stephens, President and Founder, Nature's Path Foods, Inc.
• Joe Whinney, Founder and CEO, Theo Chocolate, Inc.

Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

• "Global Change with a Local Impact: Saving Lives Through Innovation in Clean Energy – The Power of Social Enterprise," Ron Bills, Chairman and CEO, Envirofit International
• "What Moves You, Grabs You and Won't Let You Go," Eve Blossom, Founder, Lulan Artisans
• "Building Modern Institutions on Traditional Values: The Case Studies of Rwanda and Haiti," Michael Fairbanks, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
• "Debunking the Cult of the Social Entrepreneur," Scott Gilmore, CEO and Founder, Building Markets
• "Lessons Learned from SEAD: The Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke," Matt Nash, CASE Managing Director, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
• "Building an Ecosystem for Social Innovation: Lessons Learned," Amy Pearl, Executive Director and CEO, Springboard Innovation
• "Supporting Healthcare Social Entrepreneurs: The IPIHD Story," Krishna Udayakumar, MD, MBA, Head of Global Innovation, Duke Medicine; Executive Director, International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD)

Social Media & Marketing Speakers

• "The Difference it Makes: The Impact of Children’s Media on Achieving International Health Development Goals," Charlotte Cole, Blue Butterfly Collaborative
• "Engaging Young People in Social Change," Dave DeLuca, Head of Campaigns, Do Something
• "Creating Connected Awesomeness," Scott Henderson, Managing Director, CauseShift
• Eve Heyn, Communications & External Affairs Manager, GBCHealth
• "Making You Laugh While Saving Your Life Through Animation," Firdaus Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Culture Shift

Surgery & Global Health Speakers

• "Guidelines for Choosing an Intra-Ocular Lens for Implantation After Cataract Extraction Where There is No Equipment for Biometry," Thomas Baah, MD, Ophthalmologist and Director, Save The Nation's Sight Clinic, Ghana
• "Supporting Local Doctors to Build Local Capacity," James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Ghana Medical Director
• "Scaling Up Cataract Surgeries in Ghana: Systems that Work and Those that Don’t," Michael Gyasi, MD, Ophthalmologist, North Western Eye Centre, Accra, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner
• "Impossible Dreams: The Ascent of Everest and Eradicating Blindness," Geoffrey Tabin, Professor and Director, International Division of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, John A. Moran Eye Center; Co-Founder and Co-Director, Himalayan Cataract Project
• "The Role of Global Networking in Improving Local Eyecare Programs: A Case of Friends Eye Center in Ghana," Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Friends Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Partner

Technology in Global Health Speakers

• "The Next [Global] Scientific Revolution," Nina Dudnik, PhD, Founder & CEO, Seeding Labs
• "Taking Heed of Maslow: Avoiding the Urge to Nail Every Health Challenge with the Technology Hammer," Paul Ellingstad, Parter and Program Development Director, Sustainability and Social Innovation, Hewlett-Packard
• "The Power of Health in Every Mama’s Hand: Using Mobile Technology to Educate and Empower Low-Income Mothers and Families," Kirsten Gagnaire, Executive Director, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA)
• Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little Devices @MIT and co-founder LDTC+Labs LLC
• "Curing with Upgraded Visions: Planting New Potentials," Martin Gordon, MD, FAAAS, Emeritus Chairman and Lifetime Trustee, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Board; Prior Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
• "Using Mobile Phone, Social Innovation, and Cloud in PMTCT and OVC Programs," Bobby Jefferson, Director Informatics, Futures Group
• "Affordable Technology-Mediated Rehabilitation of Stroke Survivors in a Global Context," Michelle Johnson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), University of Pennsylvania
• "Health Education for Low Literacy Communities that is Seen, Read, Heard and Understood," Brian Julius, Owner, Books of Hope
• 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, JHU Global mHealth Initiative
• "BreathAlert: High-Performance, Low-Cost Detection and Correction of Apnea of Prematurity in Low-Resource Settings," Kelley Maynard, Director of Technology Development, Rice 360: Institute for Global Health Technologies, Rice University
• "Conflict-Free Congo: The Paradox of Our New Technologies," Bandi Mbubi, Founder, Congo Calling
• "Programmable Bio-Nano-Chips Customized for Affordable Healthcare and Wellness Applications," John McDevitt, PhD, Brown-Wiess Professor of Bioengineering and Chemistry, Rice University
• "Hacking Global Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Innovation," Kenneth Paik, MD, MBA, Director of Operations, Sana
• "mHealth: Smarter Systems for the Community Health Workforce: The Social Enterprise's Perspective," Carter Powers, COO, Dimagi, Inc.
• "Tele-Ophthalmology: Newer Ways to Reach Out to India's Large Diabetic Population," Tamilarasan Senthil, Ophthalmologist, Pranav Eye Foundation, India
• "The Impact of Direct Work Communication and Engagement in Supply Chain Transparency," Todd Stark, President, Good World Solutions

Water and Sanitation Speakers

• "Rethinking the Water-Health Nexus: Insights from East Africa," Zafar Adeel, Director, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health
• Doulaye Kone, PhD, Senior Program Officer, WSH, Toilet Team Transformatives Technologies, Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• "Food Security, Water Scarcity, and the Right to Health," Bob Lawrence, MD, Professor in Environmental Health Sciences, The Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
• "Drinking Water Source and Risk of Orofacial Clefts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Philippines," Haley Raimondi, Manager, Research and Outcomes Department, Operation Smile, Inc.

Interactive Workshops

• Michael Conard, RA, NCARB, Senior Principal, Design + Urbanism Architectural, LLC; Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
• "The Nero Syndrome: Why Development Projects Fiddle While the World Burns," Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.
• Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little Devices @MIT and co-founder LDTC+Labs LLC
• "Global Health Education: Reviewing Effective Strategies of Dissemination of Health Information," Brian Heuser, EdD, MTS, Assistant Professor of the Practice of International Education Policy, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Affiliated Faculty, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
• "From Pitfalls to Perfection: How to Write about Global Health," Eve Heyn, Manager of Communications & External Affairs, GBCHealth
• Judith LaBelle, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Glynwood
• 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, JHU Global mHealth Initiative
• "What Would YOU Do? A Workshop on Hard Choices for Social Enterprise Start-Ups," Rodney North, The Answer Man - Information for the Public and Media, Equal Exchange Coop
• "Building Skills to Advocate for Change with Health Data," Tara Nutley, Senior Technical Specialist, MEASURE Evaluation, Futures Group
• "My Billion Dollar Voice: How Advocacy Is Transforming Global Health," Ken Patterson, Global Grassroots Manager, Results
• Joe Whinney, Founder and CEO, Theo Chocolate, Inc.

Complete conference details can be seen on the 2014 Global Health & Innovation Conference website.

Interactive Lab with David Collins from MSH on January 24th, reserve your spot ASAP!

January 15th, 2014 in Conferences/Seminars

MIT’s GlobeMed organization hosting its first conference February 8th

January 14th, 2014 in Conferences/Seminars

Saturday, February 8th, 2014
9:30am to 4:30pm
MIT Room 6-120
Register here.

GlobeMed at MIT is proud to invite you to our first conference, where we explore the importance of a grassroots initiatives approach to global health.  We have some great speakers lined up, so check out the speaker bios along with the itinerary below.

We hope that this event will serve as a great chance to learn from those seasoned in the field, a forum for the exchange of ideas, and an excellent networking opportunity. While the event is geared towards Boston-area students and local global health professionals, it is open to the public and we encourage anyone interested to attend! The conference is free of cost.

We ask that you register no later than January 31st via this form. Please register ASAP as we will be forced to close registration should we reach capacity.

For more information, feel free to contact either Emma Broderick at efb@mit.eduor Rafa Rahman at rahmanr@mit.edu. To learn more about GlobeMed at MIT, check out the tabs on the left!