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[PovertyLiteracy 308] Public Health & Intl Development Conference at Stanford

Jennifer Staple

Jennifer.Staple at aya.yale.edu
Fri Oct 27 17:31:42 EDT 2006


**_EARLY BIRD RATE INCREASES AFTER NOVEMBER 15

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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

LEARN FROM MORE THAN 300 Renowned Speakers From North America, Latin
America, Africa, Asia, and Europe - An Energizing Weekend of Ideas and
Exchange of Best Practices to Achieve Global Goals and to Make a Difference
*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 $55 Students/$75
All Others - *_EARLY BIRD RATE INCREASES AFTER NOVEMBER 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, social entrepreneurship, 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 300 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


_COMPLETE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE WITH 300 SPEAKERS:
_http://uniteforsight.org/conference/2007/index.php


· 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

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