April 21-22, 2012 - Confirmed Conference Speakers
Confirmed Speakers
Jenny Aker, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
Jane Aronson, MD, CEO and Founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
Diana Ayton-Shenker, Founder and CEO, Fast Forward Fund
Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC's Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
Kyle Berner, Creator, Feelgoodz LLC
Lucy Bernholz, Arabella Advisors
Alan Bernstein, PhD, Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise
"Sustainable Social Change: The Power of Enterprise Solutions," Ron Bills, Chairman & CEO, Envirofit International
Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Fellow, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy & Administration; Director, Global Health Initiative, Yale University
"AAO Global Alliances," Michael Brennan, MD, American Academy of Ophthalmology Past President, Alamance Eye Center
Ned Breslin, Chief Executive Officer, Water For People
Gene Bukhman, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Advances in Global Eye Health Research," Deborah Carper, Deputy Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
Molly Christiansen, Manager, Health Practices and Business Development, Living Goods
"Meet the Editor: How to Write for Global Health Journals," Jocalyn Clark, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
"Strengthening Health Systems in Resource-Poor Settings Through the Application of the Sana Wireless Technology,"Leo Celi, MD, MPH, MS, Clinical Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Elisabet de los Pinos, Founder and CEO, Aura Biosciences
Robert Fabricant, Vice President of Creative, Frog Design Inc.
Michael Fairbanks, co-Founder, SEVEN
Rich Fletcher, PhD, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc, Director of Informatics and Telemedicine, Partners in Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
"An Inventory of Toxic Hotspots in the Developing World - Over 100 Million Exposed," Richard Fuller, President, Blacksmith Institute
Lara Galinsky, Senior Vice President, Echoing Green
Jose Gomez-Marquez, Co-Founder and Co-Inventor, Aerovax; Co-Founder, X out TB; Lecturer, D-LAB, MIT
Jessica Haberer, MD, MS, Research Scientist, Harvard Institute for Global Health; Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Scott Henderson, Principal at CauseShift and Campaign Manager of WeCanEndThis.com
Aaron Hurst, President and Founder, Taproot Foundation
"Reproductive Refugees: Health Disparities and Diasporic Dreams in Post/911 Arab America," Marcia Inhorn, MPH, PhD, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs Chair, Council on Middle East Studies
Dean Jamison, Professor, Global Health and Adjunct Professor, Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health
"mHealth: Scaling Up, Low Cost Mobile Solutions in (PMTCT) Preventing-Mother-to-Child-Transmission-Programs," Bobby Jefferson, Health IT Project Manager, Futures Group
"Farmers First: Scaling a Permanent and Sustainable End To Hunger," Tony Kalm, Director of Business Development, One Acre Fund
Lakshmi Karan, Director, Global Strategy, Riders for Health
"Overcoming Barriers By Using Humor and Animation to Create a Cultural Shift," Firdaus Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Global Shift
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
David Kuria, Chief Executive, Ecotact
"Disrupting Pathways to Mortality with Technology: Opportunities for Resource-Limited Settings," Alain Labrique, Assistant Professor, Director, Johns Hopkins Bangladesh; Department of International Health and Department of Epidemiology Program in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Bloomberk School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Robert Lawrence, MD, The Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Paul Light, Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, Robert Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
Adetokunbo O. Lucas, Adjunct Professor of International Health, Harvard University
"Frontline Health Workers as the Key to Achieving the Health MDGs," Charles MacCormack, President and CEO, Save The Children
"From Donor-Driven to Impact-Driven: How Evidence Can Inform Smarter Global Health Philanthropy," Carol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, MSc, Research Director - Global Public Health, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nader Moinfar, Magruder Eye Institute and University of Central Florida School of Medicine, Orlando, Florida
Tricia Morente, Head of Strategy and Marketing, LifeSpring Hospitals
Cheryl Moyer, MPH, Managing Director, Global REACH; Research Investigator, Department of Medical Education, University of Michigan Medical School
Michael Murphy, Executive Director and Co-Founder, MASS Design Group
Anne Murray, Senior Development Officer, E+CO
Eric Nee, Managing Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review
"BioPhotonics Technologies for Global Health," Aydogan Ozcan, PhD, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
Erica Bliss Pattni, Vice President of Marketing, KIND Healthy Snacks
"Designing Effective Visuals For Global Communication,"Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford
Selwyn Rogers, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
"Diamonds for Development," Shane Rogers, Co-Founder, The Clarity Project
"Low-Cost Diagnostics for the Developing World," Una Ryan, OBE, PhD, DSc, CEO, Diagnostics For All
Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University
"Glaucoma Screening: Current Trends and Challenges," Sarwat Salim, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee
"Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) for Prevention of Material to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS in Kenya," Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor, USAID Office of Economic Growth
Dawn Shapiro, Filmmaker, The Edge of Joy
"Bureaucratic Luddities and Other Opportunities for Innovation in TB Control," Peter Small, MD, Deputy Director, TB, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
"Family Planning: Remarkable Progress but a Steep Road Ahead," Joe Speidel, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Director for Communication, Development and External Relations, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco
Laura Stachel, MD, MPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Co-Founder, WE CARE Solar
James C. 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
Jill Tucker, Senior Program Officer, Lemelson Foundation
Landon Van Soest, Producer, Good Fortune; Filmmaker Transient Pictures
Tom Watson, President, CauseWired
Zak Zaidman, Co-Founder and CEO, Kopali Organics
Tim Zak, Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Institute for Social Innovation, H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University