Unite for Sight sets global goals
About 2,200 students, academics and professionals from all 50 states and 55 countries descended on New Haven over the weekend to exchange ideas about improving global health.
The gathering, part of the fifth annual Unite for Sight Conference, included talks and panel discussions on a range of global-health issues. Although Unite For Sight focuses primarily on vision and blindness prevention, the conference touched on numerous aspects of global health, ranging from water and dengue to HIV/AIDS and the health of international refugees.
The conference began with a talk by...
Great to see so much interest for global health issues. Note that Jim Yong Kim is also leading the Global Health Delivery Project which involves physicians and faculty from the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, and Partners In Health. FYI I have posted a link to this article on http://www.ghdnetwork.org, the project's blog.