---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laura Reynolds <lreynolds@uniteforsight.org> Date: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:13 Subject: Global Health and Innovation Conference at Yale You and your colleagues may be interested in attending or presenting at the Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale, which is the world's leading global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. For those interested in presenting at the conference, we are currently accepting social enterprise pitches. We would appreciate it if you could please forward this announcement to those who may be interested in attending or presenting. The registration rate increases after February 28. GH/Innovate 2011 Global Health & Innovation Conference Presented by Unite For Sight, 8th Annual Conference Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Saturday, April 16 - Sunday, April 17, 2011 "A Meeting of Minds"--CNN *Registration & Details (Registration rate increases after February 28)*: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference *200 speakers,* including keynote addresses by Ken Cook, Victoria Hale, Jeffrey Sachs, and Sonia Sachs. Social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Ashoka, Endeavor, mothers2mothers, VillageReach, Water.org, and many others. The conference schedule can be seen at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference *The conference convenes more than 2,200 professionals and students from 55 countries* who are interested in global health and international development, public health, medicine, social entrepreneurship, nonprofits, filmmaking and photography, social media, philanthropy, microfinance, human rights, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, public service, environmental health, and education. *Interested in presenting at the conference?* - *Call For Social Enterprise Pitches:* Do you have an innovative idea or a new program in development? Submit your idea for presentation. Social enterprise pitches are accepted on a *rolling application deadline*, and the first quality pitches will be accepted for oral presentation. When the social enterprise pitch spots are filled to capacity, applications will no longer be accepted. See social enterprise pitch instructions on the conference website. <http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference> Keynote Speakers *"Igniting Social Advocacy Through Social Media," Ken Cook,* President, Environmental Working Group *"Pharmaceuticals For Humanity," Victoria Hale,* PhD, Founder of Medicines360; Founder and Chair Emeritus, OneWorld Health *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 The conference schedule with more than 275 presentations can be seen at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference