Grassroots Initiatives for Global Health conference at MIT Feb. 8th, free admission!
GlobeMed at MIT is proud to invite you to our first conference…
Grassroots Initiatives for Global Health
Saturday, February 8th, 2014
9:30am to 4:30pm
Learn more and register at: globemed.mit.edu/2014-conference
GlobeMed at MIT is proud to invite you to our first conference, where we explore the importance of a grassroots initiatives approach to global health. We have some great speakers lined up, as you’ll see on the itinerary listed below.
We hope that this event will serve as a great chance to learn from those seasoned in the field, a forum for the exchange of ideas, and an excellent networking opportunity. While the event is geared towards Boston-area students and local global health professionals, it is open to the public and we encourage anyone interested to attend! The conference is free of charge.
We ask that you register no later than January 31st via this form. Please register ASAP as we will be forced to close registration should we reach capacity.
For more detailed information and speaker bios, please visit the event webpage here. Also feel free to contact either Emma Broderick at efb@mit.edu or Rafa Rahman at rahmanr@mit.edu.
Itinerary
9:30am – 10:00am Event Check-in
10:00am – 10:10am Opening Remarks by GlobeMed at MIT
10:10am -10:30am Opening Speech by Liana Woskie of Harvard Initiative on Global Health Quality
10:30am – 11:30am Panel: Boston-area Global Health Organizations
· Moderator: Owen Robinson of Haiti Cardiac Alliance (HCA)
· Adam Korn of Save a Child’s Heart
· Ann Peralta of the Peace Corps
· Partners in Health
11:30am – 12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm – 1:30pm Break-out Sessions
· Amee Amin and Suchitra Kulkarni of Article 25
· Jose Gomez-Marquez of Little Devices @ MIT
· Jon Shaffer of Partners in Health
· Jenny Schechter and Kevin Fiori of Hope through Health
· GlobeMed at Boston College
· GlobeMed at MIT
1:45pm – 3:45pm Screening of Pray the Devil Back to Hell and Q&A with director Gini Reticker
3:45pm – 4:15pm Closing Speech by Peter Luckow of Last Mile Health
