[afro-nets] International Health and Development Conference at Stanford: Call for Abstracts

["Jennifer Staple" <Jennifer.Staple@aya.yale.edu>]

International Health and Development Conference at Stanford: Call for Abstracts
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14-15 April 2007
Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA

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

***Please also feel free to forward this message to anyone who may be interested in attending or presenting.**

*How to submit an abstract for poster or oral presentation (_ABSTRACT_ SUBMISSION DEADLINE _JULY 15_):*  
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php

Abstract Categories:
1. International Medicine and International Health
2. Public Health
3. Eye Care
4. Scientific and Medical Research
5. Advocacy and Health Policy
6. Social innovation and entrepreneurship
7. International Development

*Register Today For A Reduced Rate! (Current Rate is $35 Students/$55 
All Others - *_RATE INCREASES AFTER July 15_** 
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.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, 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 150 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

Confirmed Speakers in Global Health, International Development, Public Health, Medicine, Health Policy and Advocacy Sessions
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php#sec1
Confirmed Speakers in Global Eye Care and Research Sessions
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php#sec2

Global Health, International Development, Public Health, Medicine, Health Policy and Advocacy**

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For more details, visit:
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php

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Jennifer Staple 
mailto:Jennifer.Staple@aya.yale.edu