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Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To Achieve Global Goals
Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International Health Conference
APRIL 14-15, 2007 - STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, CALIFORNIA, USA
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php
**Please also feel free to forward this message to anyone who may be
interested in attending.**
Register Today For A Reduced Rate! (Current Rate is $45 Students/$65 All
Others - EARLY BIRD RATE INCREASES AFTER SEPTEMBER 15
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php
When: April 14-15, 2007
Where: Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
Theme: "Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To Achieve Global Goals"
Who should attend?Anyone interested in eye care, international health, medicine, health education, health promotion, public health, international service, nonprofits, or microenterprise
Conference Goal: To exchange ideas across disciplines about best practices in public health, medicine and research, and international health and development. Conference topics range from "The Right to Health: Towards Social Inclusion and Universal Health Care in Latin America" and "Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the Developing World" to "Global Progress in Preventing the Burden of Blindness and Other Diseases Caused by Measles and Rubella" and "Once I Was Blind....The Challenges of Eye Care in Ghana"
* Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students from 5 continents
* More than 230 speakers about eye care, public health, international development, entrepreneurship, microfinance, policy and advocacy, bioethics, and medicine
* Exchange ideas about best practices to achieve global goals in health and development
LIST OF CONFERENCE SESSIONS ARE LISTED BELOW
· General Topics With Conference Sessions
a. Global Health
b. Overseas Volunteering
c. Health and Human Rights
d. Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship
e. Refugee Health
f. HIV/AIDS
g. Infectious Disease
h. International Health and Development By Region
i. Global Eye Care
j. Glaucoma Symposium
GLOBAL HEALTH SESSIONS
Partnerships in Public Health
"Partnerships in Public Health", Jacob Kumaresan, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, President, International Trachoma Initiative
"International Trachoma Initiative - Public/Private Partnership To Eradicate Blinding Trachoma", Joe Feczko, MD, Chief Medical Officer; President, Worldwide Development, Pfizer Inc.
"Public Private Partnerships to Provide Safe Drinking Water in Africa", Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble
"Public Private Partnerships to Advance Technologies for Neglected Disease", Christopher Elias, MD, MPH, President of PATH
Health As If People Mattered
"Health As If People Mattered: Development With A Human Face", John Hammock, PhD, The Alexander N. McFarlane Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Former Executive Director, Oxfam America; former Executive Director, ACCION International; Founder and Former Director, Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University; Consultant, Women's World Banking and USAID
"To Replant the Uprooted: Toward a Shared Vision of Healthy Communities", George Rupp, PhD, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
Health and Development in the 21st Century
"Young Leaders In Action: Tomorrow's Leaders But Also Today's", William Reese, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
"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
"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
Global Health, Economic Unions, and The State
"Global Health and Economic Unions", Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH, Senior Lecturer, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
"Global Rationalities and Local Disasters: Reconsidering the Role of the State in Global Public Health", Craig Janes, PhD, Associate Dean, Education, Faculty of Health Sciences Office of the Dean, Simon Fraser University
Humanitarian Emergencies
"Title To Be Announced", Stephen Tomlin, Vice President of Program, Policy and Planning, International Medical Corps
International Community Health
"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"
"The Philosophies of International Care: Do No Harm", Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program
Perspectives on Global Health
"Traingulation: Using Existing Data For Program Improvement and Policy Recommendations - The Case of Botswana and Malawi", Karen White, MBA, MPH, Senior Researcher, Institute for Global Health, UCSF
"Title To Be Announced", Farshad Rastegar, MD, President and CEO, Relief International
"Title To Be Announced", Jim Smith, Executive Director, American International Health Alliance Inc.
"Title To Be Announced", Sarah Shannon, Executive Director, Hesperian Foundation
Innovative Programs and Organizations
"The Emergence of a New Type of Physician: Lessons Learned From International Experiences", Andre-Jacques Neusy, MD, DTM&H, Associate Professor of Medicine; Director of Center for Global Health, New York University School of Medicine
"From Strong Innovative Programs to Strong Innovative Organizations", Bjorg Palsdottir, MPA, Consultant, Co-Founder and Associate Director of the Center for Global Health at New York Unive
Beyond Firewood: Basic Needs in Developing Countries
"Solar Cooking and Solar Water Pasteurization - Addressing Two Basic Needs in Developing Countries", Robert Metcalf, PhD, Professor Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento; Treasurer, Solar Cookers International
"Addressing The Reproductive Health of Women and Girls Displaced By Conflict and Natural Disasters", Sandra Krause, MPH, BSN, Reproductive Health Project Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Childhood Diseases
"Expanding Community Case Management for Childhood Diseases in Conflict-Affected Countries: Scale and Impact in Rwanda and South Sudan", Emmanuel dHarcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical
"Tears of a Dying Child: An Insight into Child Mortality From Disease in Ghana", Samuel Edusa, MD Candidate, University of Ghana Medical School; Chairman, LifeSavers Initiative NGO
"Global Epidemiology of Childhood Blindness: Challenges for Public Health Ophthalmology", Mohammad Muhit, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
"Childhood Blindness in Sri Lanka", Habiba Rawoof, MBBS, DOphth, M.Sc.CEH, Ophthalmologist, Sri Lanka
Children, Global Health and Development
"Challenges of Partnering to Achieve Global Health Goals Impacting Children", Andrea Gay, MA, MCP, Director, Children's Health Program, United Nations Foundation
"How To Help Children in Humanitarian Emergencies", Marisa Herran, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University; Co-Director, Rainbow Center for Global Child Health
Education and International Development
"Education in Africa: Foreign Aid to the Rescue?", Joel Samoff, Consulting Professor, Center for African Studies, Stanford University
"Creating a Real Learning Environment in a Rural School in South India", Mason Byles, former executive, Hewlett Packard
Leadership of Youth-Led Global NGOs: A Special Workshop
"Leadership of Student-Led Global NGOs", Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, Director of Rockefeller Foundation's Program on Global Health
Technology and Telemedicine: New Innovations in Health Care
"Case Studies of the Interactions between Governance and Healthcare Technology Solutions", Kathryn McDonald, Executive Director and Senior Scholar, Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University
"Deploying a Low Cost, Long Distance WiFi-based Teleophthalmology Network in Rural India: The Aravind Experience", Sonesh Surana, PhD Candidate, University of California at Berkeley
"Project ECHO: Telemedicine Extension For Community Healthcare Outcomes", Sanjeev Arora, MD, Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
"RICE: Remote Interaction, Consultation, and Epidemiology - A New Use For Cell Phones", Eliot Grigg, MD Candidate, George Washington University School of Medicine
Global Health Ethics
"Global Health Ethics in the New Millenium, Evolving Concepts", Anvar Velji, MD, Co-Founder and Treasurer, Global Health Education Consortium; Chief of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento; Clinical Professor, University of California at Davis
"Socially Responsible and Financially Just Global Health Electives", Evaleen Jones, MD, Founder, President and Medical Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Community Health and Activism
"Advocacy and Community Health", Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Jade Ribbon Campaign: Uniting The World To Eliminate Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer", Samuel So, MD, Lui Lac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Livery Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of Medicine
"The HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Community Response and Disease Specific Activism", David Katzenstein, Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Bringing Public Health's Voice to Sustainable Trade and Development", Ellen Shaffer, PhD, MPH, Co-Director, CPATH; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California at San Francisco
Global Food Systems
"Global Food Systems: Does How We Eat Threaten Food Security For Low-Income Countries?", Robert S. Lawrence, MD, Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean for Professional Practice and Programs; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
"Title To Be Announced", Cathy Skoula, Executive Director, Action Against Hunger-USA
Engaging in Community-Based Health Programs I
"Bridging The Gap Between Providers and Vulnerable Groups: Reducing Stigma and Discrimination in VCT/STI Services", Rebecka Lundgren, MPH, Director of Operations and Behavioral Research, Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University
"Implementation of Adolescent Sexual Health Education in El Salvador", Gabriel Brat, MSc, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
Engaging in Community-Based Health Programs II
"Engaging a Participatory Process for the Development of an Integrated Microcredit Program in Nogales, Mexico", Eva Shaw, MPH, Research Technician, University of Arizona's Southwest Institute for Research on Women
"Project Bokonon: Public Health in Action", Rosita Najmi, Co-Founder, Project Bokonon
Global Health Workforce and the Brain Drain Problem
"Globalization and the Health Workforce: Historical Perspectives, Future Challenges", Tom Hall, MD, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
"The African Brain Drain: Creating Solutions to the Problem One Mission at a Time", Constance Nduaguba, MD, Clinical Instructor, Glaucoma Service, University of Pennsylvania Scheie Eye Institute
Sanitation and Water Use
"Ecological Sanitation in Rural Haiti: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sanitation, Public Health and Soil Fertility", Sasha Kramer, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford Collaboratory For Research on Global Projects, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Department of Biological Sciences
Global Cardiovascular Health
"Cardiovascular Risk Factors in South Asian Immigrants: Apo A-I Gene Mutations", Sunita Dodani, MD, MS, FCPS, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pitts
"Hypertension Control in Primary Control Settings in the Republic of Georgia", Fred Tavill, MD, DpH, Senior Program Consultant, Center for International health
"Social Capital and Hypertension in Rural Haitian Women", Cris Malino, MPH
Strategies to Sustainable Healthcare
"Pursuing a Ghost: Fostering Sustainable Health Care in Developing Countries", Salvador Baldizon, MD, MA, MPH, Health Protection Specialist, Free From Hunger
Surgery and Global Health
"Interplast: Using Innovative Technology to Improve Surgical Care in Developing Countries", Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast
"Surgery and Global Health: A Mandate for Research, Training, and Service", Doruk Ozgediz, MD, MSc, Chief Resident in General Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, and William P. Schecter, MD, Professor of Clinical Surgery at UCSF, Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at UCSF, and Chief of Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital
OVERSEAS VOLUNTEERING
Real-Life Lessons in Cultural Competency
"The Ground Meat Parable: Real-life Lessons from Africa for International Volunteers", Valda Ford, MPH, MS, RN, University of Nebraska Medical Center
"Hold Your Breath: A Film on Cultural Competency", Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford School of Medicine
"Cultural Competence in Global Health: Linguistic Solutions to Cross-Cultural Complications", T.S. Harvey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
Engaging Students in International Health I
"Engaging Students in International Health: A Case Study", Robert David Siegel, MD, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Human Biology, and Center for African Studies, Stanford University
"Phacos, 115 Degrees, and Marriage Proposals? Stories and Lessons >From Volunteering in Bihar, India", Anna Cooper, MPH Candidate, University of Rochester School of Public Health
"Perspectives on Tamale From A Unite For Sight Volunteer", Nicholas Greene, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
Engaging Students in International Health II
"Teaching Health Profession Students Global Health: Resources, Methods, Opportunities", Tom Hall., MD, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
"Innovations in Global Health Education", Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Director of International Programs; Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
"Title To Be Announced", Ana Carolina Victoria, MD Candidate, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
Preparing To Volunteer Overseas
"Travel Medicine: Preparing For A Trip & Evaluating The Ill-Returned Traveler", D. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital
"Preparing To Volunteer in Ghana", Nicholas Greene., Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
An Eye Opener in Chennai, India: A Unite For Sight Film
HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS SESSIONS
Health and Human Rights
"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 Scoial Change, Harvard Medica School / Partners in Heath
"Health and Human Rights: The Impact of War on Vision and Ocular Health", Derek Mladenovich, OD, FAAO, MPH Candidate, Fellow, World Council of Optometry; External Examiner, International Rescue Committee, Thailand
"Infectious Diseases and Human Rights: Making Research Matter", Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH,&TM Associate Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
"Is Women's Health a Human Right?", Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of Practice,New York Medical College School of Public Health
Children, Blindness, and Human Rights
"The Human Rights of Blind Children in India", Mini Murthy., MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Behavioral Science and Community Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health
"Confidence Building Measure in a Blind Girls School in Bihar, India", Ajit Sinha., MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, All India Ophthalmological Society
"Improvement of the Quality of Life of the Blind Children in West Bengal India", Sudipta Dey, Director, Eye Micro Surgery and Diagnostic Center, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
MICROFINANCE AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SESSIONS
Global Youth Entrepreneurship
"Global Youth Entrepreneurship", James Toole, PhD, President, Compass Institute
Microfinance and Sustainable Development
"Title To Be Announced", Alex Counts, President, Grameen Foundation USA
"An Effective Model of Rural Microfinance", Brian Lehnen, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Village Enterprise Fund
"Social Investing and Entrepreneurship in the Business of International Development", Philip Berber, Founder, Chairman, A Glimmer of Hope Foundation
Microfinance, Fair Trade, and International Development
"Fair Trade and the Dignity of Work in Rural African Communities", Lindsay M. Harris, Managing Director, A Bridge for Africa Foundation
"Passing on the Gift: Heifer's Approach to Sustainable Development and Program Expansion", Jim DeVries, MD, Senior Vice President of Programs, Heifer International
"Workshop Title: Increasing Income, Confidence and Business Growth Through Effective Business Education for Low Income People", Fiona Macaulay, Founder and President, Making Cents
Entrepreneurial Social Innovation
"Atrocities and Social Entrepreneurship", Zachary Kaufman, MPhil, DPhil, JD Candidate, Yale University Law School
"Cinepolis: A Vision For Social Responsiblity", Alejandro Ramirez Magana, Director General, Cinepolis
"Healthcare Needs and Opportunities in Afghanistan - Collaborating Across The Sectors", Kulsum Janmohamed, MD, MPH
"Priming Entrepreneurial Social Innovation to Stem the Tide of Penury and Epidemics in Africa", BT Costantinos, PhD, MBA, Chairman, Ethiopica Infrastructure and Tunnelling Holdings; President and Chief Research Consultant, Ceter For Human Environment
Entrepreneurship and Health
"Global/Social Entrepreneurship", Kamran Elahian, , MS, Chairman, Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners; Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Foundation and Schools Online
"Social Impact Through Public Private Partnerships in Entrepreneurship and Health", Georgia Sambunaris, Financial Sector Specialist, USAID/EGAT, Office of Economic Growth
Social Learning and Civic Engagement
"The Role of Indigenous Faith-Based and Civil Society Organizations in Health Services Development in East and Southern Africa", Mark E. Anderson, President and CEO, Center For International Health
"Social Learning and Civic Engagement: Global Applications and Experiences Using A Faith-Based Model", Daniel J. West, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Health Administration and Human Resources, University of Scranton
"Preparing Undergraduates to Address Global Public Health Needs: The Development of a Multi-national, Interdisciplinary Comparative Study Program", Christina T. Holt, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Vermont Medical School
REFUGEE HEALTH SESSIONS
The Health of Refugee Women I
"Exploring Reproductive and Sexual Health with Liberian Refugee Women", Rena Patel, MPhil, BA, MD Candidate, Stanford School of Medicine
"Addressing Psychosocial Needs of Refugee & Immigrant Women: >From Surviving to Thriving", Lorrie L. King, MPH, Founder, Executive Director, Just Cause, Inc.
The Health of Refugee Women II
"Addressing The Reproductive Health of Women and Girls Displaced By Conflict and Natural Disasters", Sandra Krause, MPH, BSN, Reproductive Health Project Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
"Listening to Womens Voices: Lessons Learned from Congolese Refugee Women in Rwanda", Carol Pavlish, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
"Demonstration of a Reproductive Health Assessment Toolkit for Conflict-Affected Women", Marianne E. Zotti, DrPH, MS, FAAN, Lead Health Scientist and Team Leader, Services Management, Research and Translation Team, Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Health of Refugees
"Community Based Rehabilitation Projects in Politically Volatile Regions: Setting the Foundations for Peacebuilding", Kathryn Azevedo, PhD, ATRIC, CMP, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Research, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Mobilizing War-Torn African Communities to Improve Public Health,"Cornelius Pratt, MA, PhD, Presidential Professor and Strategic and Organizational Communication, Temple University, and E. Lincoln James, PhD, Washington State University
INFECTIOUS DISEASE - SESSIONS
Disease Control Strategies in the Developing World
"Trends and Successes of the Global AIDS Epidemic", Peter R. Lamptey, MD, DrPH, President, Family Health International Institute for HIV/AIDS
"Insecticide-Treated Bednets in Mass Disease Control and Elimination Campaigns", Brian Blackburn, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases, Stanford School of Medicine
"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
"Logistics of Mass Drug Administration, The Case of Azithromycin For Trachoma Control", Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Program Planning and Analysis, International Trachoma Initiative
Malaria Prevention and Treatment Strategies
"Preventing Malaria During Pregnancy: Intermittent Preventative Treatment on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea", Josephine Czechowicz, MD Candidate, Stanford University
"Protecting Border Security and Health: Effective Strategies for Monitoring and Treating Malaria among Burmas IDPs", Emily Whichard, Program Officer, Global Health Access Program, Berkeley School of Public Health
Towards Disease Eradication
"Is Global Elimination of a Bacterial Disease a Feasible Goal? Trachoma 3000 Years Later", Bruce Gaynor, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, FI Proctor Foundation and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California at San Francisco
"The Polio Eradication Partnership: Some Lessons Learned", Carol Pandak, Manager, Division of PolioPlus, The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
HIV/AIDS SESSIONS
HIV/AIDS in Low Resource Settings
"Advances and Ongoing Challenges in HIV Therapy", Paul Volberding, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, UCSF Department of Medicine; Chief, Medical Service SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research
"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the Developing World", Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University
"Global HIV Prevention From Mother To Child: Challenges for Low Resource Settings", Landry Tsague, MD, William H. Foege Fellow, Department of Global Health at Emory Rollins School of Public Health
HIV/AIDS Community Needs and Strategies
"Kasensero: The Forgotten Village Coming Out of the Shadow", Kiran V. Patel, MD, Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
"Acceptance of and Barriers to Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing Among Adults in Guizhou Province, China", Wei Ma, MS; PhD Candidate, UCLA/Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program, UCLA
Important Perspectives on HIV/AIDS
"The HIV Pandemic in the Developing World", John McGoldrick, Executive Vice President, Bristol-Myers Squibb
"The War on AIDS - Integration Equals Impact", George Guimaraes, President and CEO, Project Concern International
"Pediatric AIDS: Worlds Apart", Mark Kline, MD, President, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative; Professor of Pediatrics; Head, Section of Retrovirology, Baylor College of Medicine
"Healing through Laughter - An Innovative Psychosocial Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Southern Africa", Jamie McLaren Lachman, Project Njabulo Director, Clowns Without Borders
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care
"AIDS, Eyes, and Africa: A View of Zambia Health Care Through The Eyes of an American Ophthalmologist Working For CBMI at the Lusaka Eye Hospital, Zambia", Tom Beggins, MD, Former Medical Director and Surgeon, Lusaka Eye Hospital, Zambia
"Delivering HIV Prevention and Care Services to Rural African Villages Through Christian and Muslim Religious Groups", William W. Rankin, PhD, President, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance
"With Women Worldwide: Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health to End HIV/AIDS", Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's Health Coalition
"HIV/AIDS in China", Jessica Haberer, MD, Research Advisor, Clinton Foundation
Community HIV Prevention Programs
"Arm's Reach Care: A Community Network Model for Pediatric HIV Care and Treatment", Joy Amulya, EdD, AM, EdM, Research Associate and Lecturer, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
"Optimizing Prevention: A Comprehensive PMTCT Program in Mombasa, Kenya", Lara Christine Bishay and Nicholas Gavin, MD Candidate, New York University School of Medicine
Community Strategies for HIV/AIDS
"Rapid Skill Transfer Through Clinical Mentoring: A Universal, Fast Approach To Scaling Up HIV Practical Expertise in Developing Countries", Marie Charles, MD, MIA, Founder and President, International Center for Equal Healthcare Access; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs; Henry Crown Fellow, The Aspen Institute
"Building Foundations for Sustainable Local Response to HIV/AIDS", Debra Miller, MSN, Country Director - Kenya, CHF International
WOMENS HEALTH SESSIONS
Examining Women's Health
"Women and Health", Ana Langer, MD, President and CEO, EngenderHealth
"The Challenge of Treating Complex Obstetric Fistula in Eritrea", Amreen Husain, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Stanford University
"Women and Eye Disease", Ilene Gipson, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School; Chair, Women's Eye Health Task Force Executive Committee
"A Comparative Study of Sociocultural Factors Contributing to Maternal Mortality in Urban and Rural Areas of Southern Part of Edo State, Nigeria", Chinwe Lucy Marchie, PhD, MEd, MHPM, School of Nursing, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Perspectives on Reproductive Health
"Cross-Cultural Partnerships for Reproductive Health", Dian Harrison, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
"Quality of Care Gives Bolivian Indigenous Women Opportunities for a New Future", Lynn Johnson, Bolivia Country Director, EngenderHealth
Growing Big, Healthy Babies
"Ensuring Equitable Access to Skilled Maternity Care", Jill Sheffield, President, Family Care International
"Growing Big Babies: A Positive Deviance Approach to Nutritional Support for Pregnant Women in the Republic of Guinea", Jennifer Peterson, Country Director, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Helen Keller International
Preventing Obstetric Emergencies
"Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO)", Lee T. Dresang, MD, Associate Professor, Department Maternity Care Clinical Coordinator, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
"Training Nigerian Health Workers on the Use of Non-Pneumatic Anti-Schock Garment For Obstetric Hemorrhage", Shola Olorunnipa, MD Candidate, Stanford University
"Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage: Training Indigenous Health Workers To Use Misoprostol in IDP Settings", Susan Tuddenham, MSc IR; MD Candidate, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA and Catherine Lee, MPH
Obstetric Fistula Film Campaign
"Love, Labor, Loss Film Campaign on Obstetric Fistula", Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
Cervical Cancer
"Cervical Cancer", Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, Maternal and Neonatal Health Program, JHPIEGO Corporation
"Partnering For Prevention: The "State" of Cervical Cancer in the US", Sarah Wells, Senior Director of Public Policy, Women in Government
Remaining Schedule For 230 Speakers Can Be Seen At http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php
Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To Achieve Global Goals
Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International Health Conference
APRIL 14-15, 2007 - STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, CALIFORNIA, USA
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php
**Please also feel free to forward this message to anyone who may be
interested in attending.**
Register Today For A Reduced Rate! (Current Rate is $45 Students/$65 All
Others - EARLY BIRD RATE INCREASES AFTER SEPTEMBER 15
http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php
When: April 14-15, 2007
Where: Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
Theme: "Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices To Achieve Global Goals"
Who should attend?Anyone interested in eye care, international health, medicine, health education, health promotion, public health, international service, nonprofits, or microenterprise
Conference Goal: To exchange ideas across disciplines about best practices in public health, medicine and research, and international health and development. Conference topics range from "The Right to Health: Towards Social Inclusion and Universal Health Care in Latin America" and "Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the Developing World" to "Global Progress in Preventing the Burden of Blindness and Other Diseases Caused by Measles and Rubella" and "Once I Was Blind....The Challenges of Eye Care in Ghana"
* Join over 1,500 leaders, doctors, professionals, and students from 5 continents
* More than 230 speakers about eye care, public health, international development, entrepreneurship, microfinance, policy and advocacy, bioethics, and medicine
* Exchange ideas about best practices to achieve global goals in health and development
LIST OF CONFERENCE SESSIONS ARE LISTED BELOW
· General Topics With Conference Sessions
a. Global Health
b. Overseas Volunteering
c. Health and Human Rights
d. Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship
e. Refugee Health
f. HIV/AIDS
g. Infectious Disease
h. International Health and Development By Region
i. Global Eye Care
j. Glaucoma Symposium
GLOBAL HEALTH SESSIONS
Partnerships in Public Health
"Partnerships in Public Health", Jacob Kumaresan, MD, MPH, Dr.PH, President, International Trachoma Initiative
"International Trachoma Initiative - Public/Private Partnership To Eradicate Blinding Trachoma", Joe Feczko, MD, Chief Medical Officer; President, Worldwide Development, Pfizer Inc.
"Public Private Partnerships to Provide Safe Drinking Water in Africa", Greg Allgood, PhD, Director, Children's Safe Drinking Water, Procter & Gamble
"Public Private Partnerships to Advance Technologies for Neglected Disease", Christopher Elias, MD, MPH, President of PATH
Health As If People Mattered
"Health As If People Mattered: Development With A Human Face", John Hammock, PhD, The Alexander N. McFarlane Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Former Executive Director, Oxfam America; former Executive Director, ACCION International; Founder and Former Director, Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University; Consultant, Women's World Banking and USAID
"To Replant the Uprooted: Toward a Shared Vision of Healthy Communities", George Rupp, PhD, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
Health and Development in the 21st Century
"Young Leaders In Action: Tomorrow's Leaders But Also Today's", William Reese, President and CEO, International Youth Foundation
"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
"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
Global Health, Economic Unions, and The State
"Global Health and Economic Unions", Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH, Senior Lecturer, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
"Global Rationalities and Local Disasters: Reconsidering the Role of the State in Global Public Health", Craig Janes, PhD, Associate Dean, Education, Faculty of Health Sciences Office of the Dean, Simon Fraser University
Humanitarian Emergencies
"Title To Be Announced", Stephen Tomlin, Vice President of Program, Policy and Planning, International Medical Corps
International Community Health
"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"
"The Philosophies of International Care: Do No Harm", Cliff OCallahan, MD, PhD, Middlesex Hospital Family Practice Program
Perspectives on Global Health
"Traingulation: Using Existing Data For Program Improvement and Policy Recommendations - The Case of Botswana and Malawi", Karen White, MBA, MPH, Senior Researcher, Institute for Global Health, UCSF
"Title To Be Announced", Farshad Rastegar, MD, President and CEO, Relief International
"Title To Be Announced", Jim Smith, Executive Director, American International Health Alliance Inc.
"Title To Be Announced", Sarah Shannon, Executive Director, Hesperian Foundation
Innovative Programs and Organizations
"The Emergence of a New Type of Physician: Lessons Learned From International Experiences", Andre-Jacques Neusy, MD, DTM&H, Associate Professor of Medicine; Director of Center for Global Health, New York University School of Medicine
"From Strong Innovative Programs to Strong Innovative Organizations", Bjorg Palsdottir, MPA, Consultant, Co-Founder and Associate Director of the Center for Global Health at New York Unive
Beyond Firewood: Basic Needs in Developing Countries
"Solar Cooking and Solar Water Pasteurization - Addressing Two Basic Needs in Developing Countries", Robert Metcalf, PhD, Professor Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento; Treasurer, Solar Cookers International
"Addressing The Reproductive Health of Women and Girls Displaced By Conflict and Natural Disasters", Sandra Krause, MPH, BSN, Reproductive Health Project Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Childhood Diseases
"Expanding Community Case Management for Childhood Diseases in Conflict-Affected Countries: Scale and Impact in Rwanda and South Sudan", Emmanuel dHarcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical
"Tears of a Dying Child: An Insight into Child Mortality From Disease in Ghana", Samuel Edusa, MD Candidate, University of Ghana Medical School; Chairman, LifeSavers Initiative NGO
"Global Epidemiology of Childhood Blindness: Challenges for Public Health Ophthalmology", Mohammad Muhit, MD, Clinical Research Fellow, International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
"Childhood Blindness in Sri Lanka", Habiba Rawoof, MBBS, DOphth, M.Sc.CEH, Ophthalmologist, Sri Lanka
Children, Global Health and Development
"Challenges of Partnering to Achieve Global Health Goals Impacting Children", Andrea Gay, MA, MCP, Director, Children's Health Program, United Nations Foundation
"How To Help Children in Humanitarian Emergencies", Marisa Herran, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University; Co-Director, Rainbow Center for Global Child Health
Education and International Development
"Education in Africa: Foreign Aid to the Rescue?", Joel Samoff, Consulting Professor, Center for African Studies, Stanford University
"Creating a Real Learning Environment in a Rural School in South India", Mason Byles, former executive, Hewlett Packard
Leadership of Youth-Led Global NGOs: A Special Workshop
"Leadership of Student-Led Global NGOs", Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH, Director of Rockefeller Foundation's Program on Global Health
Technology and Telemedicine: New Innovations in Health Care
"Case Studies of the Interactions between Governance and Healthcare Technology Solutions", Kathryn McDonald, Executive Director and Senior Scholar, Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University
"Deploying a Low Cost, Long Distance WiFi-based Teleophthalmology Network in Rural India: The Aravind Experience", Sonesh Surana, PhD Candidate, University of California at Berkeley
"Project ECHO: Telemedicine Extension For Community Healthcare Outcomes", Sanjeev Arora, MD, Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
"RICE: Remote Interaction, Consultation, and Epidemiology - A New Use For Cell Phones", Eliot Grigg, MD Candidate, George Washington University School of Medicine
Global Health Ethics
"Global Health Ethics in the New Millenium, Evolving Concepts", Anvar Velji, MD, Co-Founder and Treasurer, Global Health Education Consortium; Chief of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento; Clinical Professor, University of California at Davis
"Socially Responsible and Financially Just Global Health Electives", Evaleen Jones, MD, Founder, President and Medical Director, Child Family Health International; Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Community Health and Activism
"Advocacy and Community Health", Gabriel Garcia, MD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Medical School Admissions, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Jade Ribbon Campaign: Uniting The World To Eliminate Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer", Samuel So, MD, Lui Lac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Livery Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of Medicine
"The HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Community Response and Disease Specific Activism", David Katzenstein, Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Bringing Public Health's Voice to Sustainable Trade and Development", Ellen Shaffer, PhD, MPH, Co-Director, CPATH; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California at San Francisco
Global Food Systems
"Global Food Systems: Does How We Eat Threaten Food Security For Low-Income Countries?", Robert S. Lawrence, MD, Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean for Professional Practice and Programs; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
"Title To Be Announced", Cathy Skoula, Executive Director, Action Against Hunger-USA
Engaging in Community-Based Health Programs I
"Bridging The Gap Between Providers and Vulnerable Groups: Reducing Stigma and Discrimination in VCT/STI Services", Rebecka Lundgren, MPH, Director of Operations and Behavioral Research, Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University
"Implementation of Adolescent Sexual Health Education in El Salvador", Gabriel Brat, MSc, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
Engaging in Community-Based Health Programs II
"Engaging a Participatory Process for the Development of an Integrated Microcredit Program in Nogales, Mexico", Eva Shaw, MPH, Research Technician, University of Arizona's Southwest Institute for Research on Women
"Project Bokonon: Public Health in Action", Rosita Najmi, Co-Founder, Project Bokonon
Global Health Workforce and the Brain Drain Problem
"Globalization and the Health Workforce: Historical Perspectives, Future Challenges", Tom Hall, MD, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
"The African Brain Drain: Creating Solutions to the Problem One Mission at a Time", Constance Nduaguba, MD, Clinical Instructor, Glaucoma Service, University of Pennsylvania Scheie Eye Institute
Sanitation and Water Use
"Ecological Sanitation in Rural Haiti: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sanitation, Public Health and Soil Fertility", Sasha Kramer, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford Collaboratory For Research on Global Projects, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Department of Biological Sciences
Global Cardiovascular Health
"Cardiovascular Risk Factors in South Asian Immigrants: Apo A-I Gene Mutations", Sunita Dodani, MD, MS, FCPS, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pitts
"Hypertension Control in Primary Control Settings in the Republic of Georgia", Fred Tavill, MD, DpH, Senior Program Consultant, Center for International health
"Social Capital and Hypertension in Rural Haitian Women", Cris Malino, MPH
Strategies to Sustainable Healthcare
"Pursuing a Ghost: Fostering Sustainable Health Care in Developing Countries", Salvador Baldizon, MD, MA, MPH, Health Protection Specialist, Free From Hunger
Surgery and Global Health
"Interplast: Using Innovative Technology to Improve Surgical Care in Developing Countries", Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast
"Surgery and Global Health: A Mandate for Research, Training, and Service", Doruk Ozgediz, MD, MSc, Chief Resident in General Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, and William P. Schecter, MD, Professor of Clinical Surgery at UCSF, Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at UCSF, and Chief of Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital
OVERSEAS VOLUNTEERING
Real-Life Lessons in Cultural Competency
"The Ground Meat Parable: Real-life Lessons from Africa for International Volunteers", Valda Ford, MPH, MS, RN, University of Nebraska Medical Center
"Hold Your Breath: A Film on Cultural Competency", Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford School of Medicine
"Cultural Competence in Global Health: Linguistic Solutions to Cross-Cultural Complications", T.S. Harvey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
Engaging Students in International Health I
"Engaging Students in International Health: A Case Study", Robert David Siegel, MD, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Human Biology, and Center for African Studies, Stanford University
"Phacos, 115 Degrees, and Marriage Proposals? Stories and Lessons >From Volunteering in Bihar, India", Anna Cooper, MPH Candidate, University of Rochester School of Public Health
"Perspectives on Tamale From A Unite For Sight Volunteer", Nicholas Greene, Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
Engaging Students in International Health II
"Teaching Health Profession Students Global Health: Resources, Methods, Opportunities", Tom Hall., MD, DrPH, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
"Innovations in Global Health Education", Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Director of International Programs; Professor in Residence, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine
"Title To Be Announced", Ana Carolina Victoria, MD Candidate, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
Preparing To Volunteer Overseas
"Travel Medicine: Preparing For A Trip & Evaluating The Ill-Returned Traveler", D. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital
"Preparing To Volunteer in Ghana", Nicholas Greene., Unite For Sight Volunteer in Tamale, Ghana
An Eye Opener in Chennai, India: A Unite For Sight Film
HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS SESSIONS
Health and Human Rights
"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 Scoial Change, Harvard Medica School / Partners in Heath
"Health and Human Rights: The Impact of War on Vision and Ocular Health", Derek Mladenovich, OD, FAAO, MPH Candidate, Fellow, World Council of Optometry; External Examiner, International Rescue Committee, Thailand
"Infectious Diseases and Human Rights: Making Research Matter", Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH,&TM Associate Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
"Is Women's Health a Human Right?", Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor of Practice,New York Medical College School of Public Health
Children, Blindness, and Human Rights
"The Human Rights of Blind Children in India", Mini Murthy., MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Behavioral Science and Community Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health
"Confidence Building Measure in a Blind Girls School in Bihar, India", Ajit Sinha., MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, All India Ophthalmological Society
"Improvement of the Quality of Life of the Blind Children in West Bengal India", Sudipta Dey, Director, Eye Micro Surgery and Diagnostic Center, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
MICROFINANCE AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SESSIONS
Global Youth Entrepreneurship
"Global Youth Entrepreneurship", James Toole, PhD, President, Compass Institute
Microfinance and Sustainable Development
"Title To Be Announced", Alex Counts, President, Grameen Foundation USA
"An Effective Model of Rural Microfinance", Brian Lehnen, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Village Enterprise Fund
"Social Investing and Entrepreneurship in the Business of International Development", Philip Berber, Founder, Chairman, A Glimmer of Hope Foundation
Microfinance, Fair Trade, and International Development
"Fair Trade and the Dignity of Work in Rural African Communities", Lindsay M. Harris, Managing Director, A Bridge for Africa Foundation
"Passing on the Gift: Heifer's Approach to Sustainable Development and Program Expansion", Jim DeVries, MD, Senior Vice President of Programs, Heifer International
"Workshop Title: Increasing Income, Confidence and Business Growth Through Effective Business Education for Low Income People", Fiona Macaulay, Founder and President, Making Cents
Entrepreneurial Social Innovation
"Atrocities and Social Entrepreneurship", Zachary Kaufman, MPhil, DPhil, JD Candidate, Yale University Law School
"Cinepolis: A Vision For Social Responsiblity", Alejandro Ramirez Magana, Director General, Cinepolis
"Healthcare Needs and Opportunities in Afghanistan - Collaborating Across The Sectors", Kulsum Janmohamed, MD, MPH
"Priming Entrepreneurial Social Innovation to Stem the Tide of Penury and Epidemics in Africa", BT Costantinos, PhD, MBA, Chairman, Ethiopica Infrastructure and Tunnelling Holdings; President and Chief Research Consultant, Ceter For Human Environment
Entrepreneurship and Health
"Global/Social Entrepreneurship", Kamran Elahian, , MS, Chairman, Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Partners; Co-Founder, Global Catalyst Foundation and Schools Online
"Social Impact Through Public Private Partnerships in Entrepreneurship and Health", Georgia Sambunaris, Financial Sector Specialist, USAID/EGAT, Office of Economic Growth
Social Learning and Civic Engagement
"The Role of Indigenous Faith-Based and Civil Society Organizations in Health Services Development in East and Southern Africa", Mark E. Anderson, President and CEO, Center For International Health
"Social Learning and Civic Engagement: Global Applications and Experiences Using A Faith-Based Model", Daniel J. West, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Health Administration and Human Resources, University of Scranton
"Preparing Undergraduates to Address Global Public Health Needs: The Development of a Multi-national, Interdisciplinary Comparative Study Program", Christina T. Holt, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Vermont Medical School
REFUGEE HEALTH SESSIONS
The Health of Refugee Women I
"Exploring Reproductive and Sexual Health with Liberian Refugee Women", Rena Patel, MPhil, BA, MD Candidate, Stanford School of Medicine
"Addressing Psychosocial Needs of Refugee & Immigrant Women: >From Surviving to Thriving", Lorrie L. King, MPH, Founder, Executive Director, Just Cause, Inc.
The Health of Refugee Women II
"Addressing The Reproductive Health of Women and Girls Displaced By Conflict and Natural Disasters", Sandra Krause, MPH, BSN, Reproductive Health Project Director, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
"Listening to Womens Voices: Lessons Learned from Congolese Refugee Women in Rwanda", Carol Pavlish, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
"Demonstration of a Reproductive Health Assessment Toolkit for Conflict-Affected Women", Marianne E. Zotti, DrPH, MS, FAAN, Lead Health Scientist and Team Leader, Services Management, Research and Translation Team, Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Health of Refugees
"Community Based Rehabilitation Projects in Politically Volatile Regions: Setting the Foundations for Peacebuilding", Kathryn Azevedo, PhD, ATRIC, CMP, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Research, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Mobilizing War-Torn African Communities to Improve Public Health,"Cornelius Pratt, MA, PhD, Presidential Professor and Strategic and Organizational Communication, Temple University, and E. Lincoln James, PhD, Washington State University
INFECTIOUS DISEASE - SESSIONS
Disease Control Strategies in the Developing World
"Trends and Successes of the Global AIDS Epidemic", Peter R. Lamptey, MD, DrPH, President, Family Health International Institute for HIV/AIDS
"Insecticide-Treated Bednets in Mass Disease Control and Elimination Campaigns", Brian Blackburn, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases, Stanford School of Medicine
"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
"Logistics of Mass Drug Administration, The Case of Azithromycin For Trachoma Control", Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Program Planning and Analysis, International Trachoma Initiative
Malaria Prevention and Treatment Strategies
"Preventing Malaria During Pregnancy: Intermittent Preventative Treatment on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea", Josephine Czechowicz, MD Candidate, Stanford University
"Protecting Border Security and Health: Effective Strategies for Monitoring and Treating Malaria among Burmas IDPs", Emily Whichard, Program Officer, Global Health Access Program, Berkeley School of Public Health
Towards Disease Eradication
"Is Global Elimination of a Bacterial Disease a Feasible Goal? Trachoma 3000 Years Later", Bruce Gaynor, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, FI Proctor Foundation and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California at San Francisco
"The Polio Eradication Partnership: Some Lessons Learned", Carol Pandak, Manager, Division of PolioPlus, The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
HIV/AIDS SESSIONS
HIV/AIDS in Low Resource Settings
"Advances and Ongoing Challenges in HIV Therapy", Paul Volberding, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, UCSF Department of Medicine; Chief, Medical Service SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research
"Antiretroviral Drugs and Issues of Drug Access and Quality in the Developing World", Terry Blaschke, MD, Professor of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University
"Global HIV Prevention From Mother To Child: Challenges for Low Resource Settings", Landry Tsague, MD, William H. Foege Fellow, Department of Global Health at Emory Rollins School of Public Health
HIV/AIDS Community Needs and Strategies
"Kasensero: The Forgotten Village Coming Out of the Shadow", Kiran V. Patel, MD, Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
"Acceptance of and Barriers to Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing Among Adults in Guizhou Province, China", Wei Ma, MS; PhD Candidate, UCLA/Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program, UCLA
Important Perspectives on HIV/AIDS
"The HIV Pandemic in the Developing World", John McGoldrick, Executive Vice President, Bristol-Myers Squibb
"The War on AIDS - Integration Equals Impact", George Guimaraes, President and CEO, Project Concern International
"Pediatric AIDS: Worlds Apart", Mark Kline, MD, President, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative; Professor of Pediatrics; Head, Section of Retrovirology, Baylor College of Medicine
"Healing through Laughter - An Innovative Psychosocial Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Southern Africa", Jamie McLaren Lachman, Project Njabulo Director, Clowns Without Borders
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care
"AIDS, Eyes, and Africa: A View of Zambia Health Care Through The Eyes of an American Ophthalmologist Working For CBMI at the Lusaka Eye Hospital, Zambia", Tom Beggins, MD, Former Medical Director and Surgeon, Lusaka Eye Hospital, Zambia
"Delivering HIV Prevention and Care Services to Rural African Villages Through Christian and Muslim Religious Groups", William W. Rankin, PhD, President, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance
"With Women Worldwide: Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health to End HIV/AIDS", Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's Health Coalition
"HIV/AIDS in China", Jessica Haberer, MD, Research Advisor, Clinton Foundation
Community HIV Prevention Programs
"Arm's Reach Care: A Community Network Model for Pediatric HIV Care and Treatment", Joy Amulya, EdD, AM, EdM, Research Associate and Lecturer, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
"Optimizing Prevention: A Comprehensive PMTCT Program in Mombasa, Kenya", Lara Christine Bishay and Nicholas Gavin, MD Candidate, New York University School of Medicine
Community Strategies for HIV/AIDS
"Rapid Skill Transfer Through Clinical Mentoring: A Universal, Fast Approach To Scaling Up HIV Practical Expertise in Developing Countries", Marie Charles, MD, MIA, Founder and President, International Center for Equal Healthcare Access; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs; Henry Crown Fellow, The Aspen Institute
"Building Foundations for Sustainable Local Response to HIV/AIDS", Debra Miller, MSN, Country Director - Kenya, CHF International
WOMENS HEALTH SESSIONS
Examining Women's Health
"Women and Health", Ana Langer, MD, President and CEO, EngenderHealth
"The Challenge of Treating Complex Obstetric Fistula in Eritrea", Amreen Husain, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Stanford University
"Women and Eye Disease", Ilene Gipson, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School; Chair, Women's Eye Health Task Force Executive Committee
"A Comparative Study of Sociocultural Factors Contributing to Maternal Mortality in Urban and Rural Areas of Southern Part of Edo State, Nigeria", Chinwe Lucy Marchie, PhD, MEd, MHPM, School of Nursing, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Perspectives on Reproductive Health
"Cross-Cultural Partnerships for Reproductive Health", Dian Harrison, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
"Quality of Care Gives Bolivian Indigenous Women Opportunities for a New Future", Lynn Johnson, Bolivia Country Director, EngenderHealth
Growing Big, Healthy Babies
"Ensuring Equitable Access to Skilled Maternity Care", Jill Sheffield, President, Family Care International
"Growing Big Babies: A Positive Deviance Approach to Nutritional Support for Pregnant Women in the Republic of Guinea", Jennifer Peterson, Country Director, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Helen Keller International
Preventing Obstetric Emergencies
"Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO)", Lee T. Dresang, MD, Associate Professor, Department Maternity Care Clinical Coordinator, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
"Training Nigerian Health Workers on the Use of Non-Pneumatic Anti-Schock Garment For Obstetric Hemorrhage", Shola Olorunnipa, MD Candidate, Stanford University
"Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage: Training Indigenous Health Workers To Use Misoprostol in IDP Settings", Susan Tuddenham, MSc IR; MD Candidate, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA and Catherine Lee, MPH
Obstetric Fistula Film Campaign
"Love, Labor, Loss Film Campaign on Obstetric Fistula", Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
Cervical Cancer
"Cervical Cancer", Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, Maternal and Neonatal Health Program, JHPIEGO Corporation
"Partnering For Prevention: The "State" of Cervical Cancer in the US", Sarah Wells, Senior Director of Public Policy, Women in Government
Remaining Schedule For 230 Speakers Can Be Seen At http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php
