[afro-nets] International Health & Development Conference at Stanford

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

International Health & Development Conference at Stanford
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  **_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

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