The Global Health Idea Lab Virtual Summit was presented live on November 5, 2021, and is available for the next year through a virtual recording. Register today to access the recordings, and join our Virtual Summit as we embrace and nurture diverse talents, creativity, curiosity, and collaboration. We dive deep into the complexities, impact, challenges, joys, and lessons learned in global health, innovation, education, and social impact. Join this unique forum where everyone is inspired to dive deep, to have meaningful conversations, and to embrace our collective extraordinary potential for growth and impact.

This year’s event included seven phenomenal plenary panel conversations with 4-6 thought leaders in each. Each session is an in-depth conversation, with no lectures, memorized talks, or PowerPoints. The sessions are not siloed based on discrete topics, but instead the conference is designed as a unique forum and exchange of ideas across disciplines.

Friday, November 5

(All times are in Eastern Time)

9:00-9:55am: Collaborative Leadership

• James Clarke, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana; Unite For Sight Ghana Medical Director

• Andrea Coleman, Founder and CEO, Two Wheels for Life; Co-Founder and CEO, Riders for Health

• Paul Ellingstad, Managing Partner, PTI Advisors

• Julie Mountcastle, Head of School and Grade 2 Teacher, Slate School

• In Conversation With Ned Breslin

10:00-10:55am: Outside of the Box: Creativity and Curiosity in Health and Development

• Jane Aronson, Clinical Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine; Founder and Former CEO, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Director, International Pediatric Health Services, PLLC; Director, Global Behavioral Health Network for Children and Young People

• Felicia Knaul, Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami; Professor, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami; Founder and President, Tómatelo a Pecho, A.C.; Senior Economist, Mexican Health Foundation

• Robin Allinson Smalley, Co-Founder and Chief Connector, mothers2mothers International

• Krishna Udayakumar, Associate Professor of Global Health and Medicine, Duke University; Director, Duke Global Health Innovation Center; Executive Director, Innovations in Healthcare

• In Conversation With Cal Bruns, CEO and Chief Creative Incubationist, Matchboxology

11:00-11:55am: Taking Risks and Embracing Failure

• Gary Cohen, President and Co-Founder, Health Care Without Harm

• Mackinnon Engen, Executive Director, Watsi

• Bobby Jefferson, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, DAI Global Health

• Jim Koch, Professor Emeritus, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University; Founding Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University

• In Conversation With Mark Roithmayr, CEO, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

12:00-12:55pm: The Art of Communication and Collaboration

• Cleveland Justis, Principal, Potrero Group

• Anatole Manzi, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Quality & Health Systems Strengthening; Director, Learning Collaborative, US Public Health Accompaniment Unit, Partners In Health; Lecturer, Harvard Medical School 

• Santa Ono, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia

• Mark Roithmayr, CEO, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

• Chris Underhill, Founder, BasicNeeds; Co-Founder, citiesRISE; Co-Founder, Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurs; Member, Global Future Council on Mental Health, World Economic Forum; Founder and Principal, Mentor Services

• In Conversation With Julie Mountcastle, Head of School and Grade 2 Teacher, Slate School

1:00-1:55pm: Tools for Effective Program Design

• Kala Mehta, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

• Nick Preneta, Chief Operating Officer, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL)

• Adam Schwartz, Director, Health Program at BRAC USA

• Richard Skolnik, Former Director for HNP, South Asia Region at the World Bank; Former Lecturer, Yale University and The George Washington University; Author, Essentials of Global Health/Global Health 101; Instructor, Yale/Coursera - 'Essentials of Global Health'

• In Conversation With Elizabeth Bradley, President and Professor of Science, Technology & Society, and Political Science, Vassar College

2:00-2:55pm: Measuring Real Outcomes and Effectiveness

• Ned Breslin

• Paul Ellingstad, Managing Partner, PTI Advisors

• Ash Rogers, Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance

• Katherine Semrau, Director, BetterBirth Program, Ariadne Labs; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Epidemiologist, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital

• Sten Vermund, Dean and Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine

• In Conversation With Jeffrey Blander, Chief Investment Officer, Innovative Financing and Sustainable Investing, U.S. Department of State; Chief Innovation Officer, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State 

3:00-3:55pm: Cultural Humility, The Ethics of Responsible Global Engagement

• Corrado Cancedda, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Botswana University of Pennsylvania Partnership; Strategic Advisor for Academic Partnerships, Center for Global Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

• Andrea Coleman, Founder and CEO, Two Wheels for Life; Co-Founder and CEO, Riders for Health

• Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Co.

• Brian Heuser, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Education Policy, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University; Affiliated Faculty, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health 

• In Conversation With Rebecca Hardin, Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan