Swarthmore College’s Global Health Forum invites you to attend The Global Health Project:  A Conference for Student Collaboration, to be held on Friday March 18th and Saturday March 19th at Swarthmore College.

At this conference, we strive to increase the effectiveness of student global health organizations though conversation and collaboration. We aim to establish relationships on which we can build in the future to help further the goals of participating groups. There will be an opportunity for each participating group to present its work to the collective conference. Through workshops, lectures, and student presentations we will learn who we are, how we can work together, and what we plan to accomplish in the field of global health.

Keynote Speakers

Jennifer Staple-Clark, founder and Chief Executive Officer, Unite for Sight. Jennifer founded Unite For Sight in her dorm room while a sophomore at Yale University in fall 2000. With Jennifer’s leadership and vision, Unite For Sight is now a leading global health delivery organization that provides cost-effective care to the world’s poorest people. By investing human and financial resources into the social ventures of eye clinics in developing countries, Unite For Sight has provided eye care to more than 1,100,000 people living in extreme poverty, including more than 40,000 sight-restoring surgeries. Jennifer is also the recipient of the American Institute of Public Service’s 2009 National Jefferson Award For Public Service, which is regarded as the “Nobel Prize” for public service. In 2007, Jennifer was awarded a BRICK Award, which honors and funds change-makers who identify problems and do something to change the world, and has been dubbed by CNN as “the Oscars of youth service awards.”

Registration

Click here to fill out the registration form

Please RSVP by February 1, 2011

Please email globalhealthproject@globalhealthforum.org with your questions about the conference.