SPEAKERS

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  • 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

  • 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 

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

  • Ned Breslin

  • Cal Bruns, CEO and Chief Creative Incubationist, Matchboxology

  • 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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Paul Ellingstad, Managing Partner, PTI Advisors

  • Mackinnon Engen, Executive Director, Watsi

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

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

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

  • Cleveland Justis, Principal, Potrero Group

  • 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

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

  • 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 

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

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

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

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

  • Ash Rogers, Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance

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

  • Adam Schwartz, Director, Health Program at BRAC USA

  • 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

  • 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'

  • 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

  • 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

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