CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - Unite For Sight's 3rd Annual International Health Conference
"Empowering Communities to Bridge Health Divides"

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 15
When: April 1-2, 2006
Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Theme: "Empowering Communities to Bridge Health Divides"
Who should attend?  Anyone interested in medicine, health education, health promotion, public health, international health, international service, or eye care
Conference Goal: To empower conference attendees to identify health needs and to develop solutions to improve access to care for the medically underserved
How to Register - Early Bird Registration! http://www.uniteforsight.org/2006_annual_conference.php
Early Bird Registration Rate: $25 student rate; $30 for all others
How to Submit Abstract: http://www.uniteforsight.org/2006_conference_posters.php

Abstract Categories - Submission Deadline August 15

  1. International Medicine and International Health
  2. Public Health
  3. Scientific Research
  4. Advocacy and Health Policy
  5. Nonprofits in Health

FEATURED SESSIONS - Additional Speakers To Be Announced


Keynote Address
"Environment, Behavior and Health: Societies Matter" Al Sommer, MD, MHS


The Health of Women and Children: A Global Overview

"Women's Health: A Global Overview," Allan Rosenfield, MD
"Strengthening Community Capacity for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health," Charles MacCormack
"The Challenges of Pediatric AIDS in Africa - A Lesson in Hope and Humanity" Shaffiq Essajee, BMBCh


Strategies in Global Health

"Global Health Governance in a Time of Rapid Change: Opportunities and Concerns" Derek Yach, MBChB, MPH
"Community Approaches to Achieve Global Health Goals," Jacob Kumaresan, MD, MPH, Dr.PH
Andre-Jacques Neusy, MD, DTM&H
Nora Groce, PhD
"Public-Private Partnership as a Strategy for Addressing Global Health Issues: Lessons Learned from The Mectizan Donation Program," Brenda Colatrella


Community Strategies to Improve Eye Care

"Update on Vision 2020: the Right to Sight," Louis Pizzarello, MD
"Barriers to Eye Care: Results of Qualitative Research," Rosie Janiszewski, MS, CHES
Ilene Gipson, PhD
"Teaching the Teachers: Empowering Refugee Communities Through School-Based Education," Valda Ford, MPH, MS, RN
"Community Strategies To Improve Eye Care," Satya B. Verma, OD, FAAO
Janet Leasher, OD, MPH
"Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity Globalizing Eye Care" Harry I. Zeltzer, OD
"Strategic planning for trachoma control in nine endemic countries," A. Sam-Abbenyi, MD, MSc


Building Capacity Through Surgical Eye Care

"Sustainable Surgical Eye Care Delivery," Victoria Sheffield and John Barrows, MPH
Harry S. Brown, MD
"Challenges and Successes of Surgical Eye Care in Africa," Cathy Schanzer, MD


Refractive Error: From Needs To Eyeglass Empowerment

"Estimates of Functional Blindness and Impaired Vision Due To Uncorrected Refractive Error," Brien A. Holden, PhD, DSc, OAM
"Community-Based, Self-Sustaining, Easy-to-Replicate InFOCUS Vision Stations: Helping to Meet and Increasing Need for Primary Vision Care, Head-On" Ian B. Berger, M.D., M.P.H. Dr.PH
"Social Entrepreneurship and Presbyopia" Jordan Kassalow, OD, MPH
Joshua Silver, PhD


Glaucoma Angles and Approaches

"What is Glaucoma?" Robert Ritch, MD
"Glaucoma Care For The Medically Underserved in the U.S." Martin Wand, MD
"Glaucoma Screening in a High Risk Population of New Haven," Bruce Shields, MD
"Population Based Glaucoma Screening, Why Not To Do It," James Standefer, MD
Leon W. Herndon, MD
Roger W. Martin

Vision Screening Strategies

Bruce Moore, OD
Erik Weissberg, OD


Vision and Clinical Research

Shachar Tauber, MD
"The Ethics Behind Clinical Research in Developing Nations," Matthew D. Paul, MD


Breakout Workshop Sessions


Cultural Competency

"Lessons from the Camps: Why You Should Not Hug the Monk and other Faux Pas," Valda Ford, MPH, MS, RN


Best Practices: Microfinance's Role in Sustainable Development

Jordan Kassalow, OD, MPH
"Fonkoze: Providing Financial and Educational Services to Haiti's Poor" Sharmi Sobhan and Anne Hastings, PhD


Lessons from India: Health Outreach and Capacity Building

"Lok Swasthya Sewa, a Model Health Cooperative in Ahmedabad, India." Chirag Shah, MD, MPH
Jacqueline de Chollet
Keith Tauro


Clinical and Pubic Health Approaches to Eye Care

"From Eye Charts to Eye Clinics: Building Community Health Infrastructure," Sachin Jain, MD, MPH Candidate
"A Vision of Possibilities: Merging Clinical and Public Health Perspectives in Ocular Health," Rohit Ramchandani, MPH
"Eye Health Among Internally Displaced Persons in Northern Uganda; Restoring the Lost Hopes," Kenneth Daniel, MD Candidate