Dear Colleagues,
We hope that you will be available to join us for next month's 19th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference, a Virtual Event on April 21-22, 2022. Explore the incredible variety and depth of panel sessions outlined below. At this year's unique event, each session is an in-depth conversation, with no lectures, memorized talks, or PowerPoints. The sessions are not siloed based on discrete topics, but instead, the conference is designed as a unique forum and exchange of ideas across disciplines.
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Announcing The 2022 Panels!<https://ghic.uniteforsight.org/>
The Art of Listening
* Jeffrey Blander, Chief Investment Officer, Innovative Financing and Sustainable Investing, U.S. Department of State; Chief Innovation Officer, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State
* Cal Bruns, CEO and Chief Creative Incubationist, Matchboxology
* James Clarke, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Ghana Medical Director
* Laura Herman, Partner, Dalberg
* Rorisang Mhlaba, Acting School Principal, Ubuntu Pathways
* Julie Mountcastle, Head of School and Grade 1/2 Teacher, Slate School
Building Trust
* Ned Breslin
* Arachu Castro, Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America and Director of the Collaborative Group for Health Equity in Latin America, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
* Corrado Cancedda, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Botswana University of Pennsylvania Partnership; Strategic Advisor for Academic Partnerships, Center for Global Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
* Dixon Chibanda, Founder and CEO, Friendship Bench Zimbabwe; Director, African Mental Health Research Initiative; Associate Professor, Clinical Research Center, University of Zimbabwe; Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
* Ziyanda Ndyoko, External Relations and Job Skills Training Manager, Ubuntu Pathways
* Mark Roithmayr, CEO, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
Scaling Programs after Local Success
* Jane Aronson, Clinical Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine; Founder and Former CEO, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Director, International Pediatric Health Services, PLLC; Director, Global Behavioral Health Network for Children and Young People
* Scott Corlew, Lecturer, Program in Global Health and Social Change, Harvard Medical School
* Gene Kwan, Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine; Health and Policy Advisor, Partners In Health
* Regan Marsh, Senior Technical Lead, US Public Health Accompaniment Unit, Partners In Health; Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
* Ruston Yarnko, Director of National Community Health Systems Team, Last Mile Health, Liberia
* Moderated by Robin Allinson Smalley, Co-Founder and Chief Connector, mothers2mothers International
Collaboration: The Team Sport of Success
* Sam Daley-Harris, Founder and Principal, Civic Courage, A Program of RESULTS Educational Fund
* Brian Heuser, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Education Policy, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University; Affiliated Faculty, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
* Michelle Joseph, Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School; Chief Strategy and Health Equity Officer, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School
* Felicia Knaul, Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami; Professor, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami; Founder and President, Tómatelo a Pecho, A.C.; Senior Economist, Mexican Health Foundation
* Wendy Ostroff, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Developmental Psychology, Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University
* Moderated by Julie Mountcastle, Head of School and Grade 1/2 Teacher, Slate School
Vulnerability, Failure, and Resiliency in Leadership
* Boris Bulayev, CEO and Co-Founder, Educate!
* Katja Iversen, Former President and CEO, Women Deliver
* Bobby Jefferson, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, DAI Global Health
* Santa Ono, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia
* Chris Underhill, Founder, BasicNeeds; Co-Founder, citiesRISE; Co-Founder, Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs; Member, Global Future Council on Mental Health, World Economic Forum; Founder and Principal, Mentor Services
* Panelist TBA
Being Bold, Having Vision
* Chris Addy, Managing Partner, The Bridgespan Group
* Charlotte Cole, Executive Director, Blue Butterfly Collaborative
* Lisa Russell, Emmy-Winning Filmmaker and Founder, Create2030
* Panelist TBA
Organizational Journeys
* Firdaus Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Culture Shift
* Emma Robbins, Executive Director, Navajo Water Project; Founder, The Chapter House
* Ash Rogers, Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance
* Adam Schwartz, Director, Health Program at BRAC USA
* Sakena Yacoobi, President & Executive Director, Creating Hope International; President & Executive Director, Afghan Institute of Learning
Fulfillment in Global Health Careers
* Adeline Boatin, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health, Harvard Medical School; Co-Director of Global Health, Dept OB/GYN, Mass General Hospital
* Siobhan Kelley, Director of Communications, Last Mile Health
* Kaveh Khoshnood, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health; Faculty Director, InnovateHealth Yale; Program Co-Director, Global Health Ethics Program, Yale Institute for Global Health; Program Director BA-BS/MPH Program in Public Health, Yale University
* Richard Skolnik, Former Director for HNP, South Asia Region at the World Bank; Former Lecturer, Yale University and The George Washington University; Author, Essentials of Global Health/Global Health 101; Instructor, Yale/Coursera - 'Essentials of Global Health'
* Eliza Squibb, Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* Panelist TBA
Rigorous Thinking, Informed Decisions, and Real Outcomes
* Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
* Lisa Hirschhorn, Professor, Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; Senior Director, Implementation and Improvement Science, Last Mile Health
* Krishna Jafa, Incoming CEO, Medic
* Kala Mehta, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
* Daniel Palazuelos, Director of Community Health Systems, Partners In Health; Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
* Katherine Semrau, Director, BetterBirth Program, Ariadne Labs; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Epidemiologist, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital
How Innovative Financing Creates Impact and Sustainable Outcomes
* Panelist TBA
* Panelist TBA
* Moderated by Jeffrey Blander, Chief Investment Officer, Innovative Financing and Sustainable Investing, U.S. Department of State; Chief Innovation Officer, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State
Lessons Learned in Virtual Collaboration
* Tricia Bolender, Strategy Consultant and Leadership Coach, Tricia Bolender Advisory LLC
* Paul Ellingstad, Managing Partner, PTI Advisors
* Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of Houston Downtown; Founder and Director, Design Global Change
* Panelists TBA
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GLOBAL HEALTH & INNOVATION CONFERENCE<https://ghic.uniteforsight.org/>
VIRTUAL EVENT
APRIL 21-22, 2022
“This is a community, a place where you have this incredible intersection of actual idealism, untarnished hope, and actual solutions for making change on the ground.” — Jordan Levy, Chief External Relations Officer, Ubuntu Pathways
Join over 65 speakers who will share their expertise and perspectives in a variety of in-depth panels and workshops.<https://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/>
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