[afro-nets] Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale

Dear Friend of Unite For Sight,

We hope to see you on April 12-13 at the 11th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale <http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference&gt;, which is the world's largest and leading global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference. We would appreciate it if you can please forward this announcement to your colleagues who may be interested in attending or presenting. For those interested in presenting at the conference, we are currently accepting social enterprise pitch abstracts for presentation.

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
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

"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 now to secure the lowest registration rate: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

Interested in presenting at the conference? Submit a social enterprise pitch abstract <http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/abstracts&gt; for consideration.

The conference's 300 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
   "Inventing the Future of Food," Gary Hirshberg, Co-Founder and CEO, Stonyfield Farms
   "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food," Michael Moss, Investigative Reporter, New York Times
   "From MDGs to SDGs: the Post-2015 Development Agenda," 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
   "The 1000 Day System for Maternal and Child Survival," Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute, Columbia University

Click the following web link for more speakers:
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/speakers-2014

Complete conference details can be seen on the 2014 Global Health & Innovation Conference website:
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/

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Jennifer Staple-Clark
mailto:jstaple@uniteforsight.org