The Global Health & Innovation Conference embraces and nurtures diverse talents, creativity, curiosity, and collaboration. We dive deep into the complexities, impact, challenges, joys, and lessons learned in global health, innovation, education, and social impact. Join this unique forum where everyone is inspired to dive deep, to have meaningful conversations, and to embrace our collective extraordinary potential for growth and impact.

This year’s event includes hour-long keynote conversations, as well as plenary panel conversations with 4-6 thought leaders in each, and small group interactive workshops. Each session is an in-depth conversation, with no lectures, memorized talks, or PowerPoints. The sessions are not siloed based on discrete topics, but instead the conference is designed as a unique forum and exchange of ideas across disciplines.

SATURDAY, April 18, 2026

All times are Eastern Time.

9:00-9:55am

Keynote Conversation

• Megan Ranney, Dean, Yale School of Public Health, In Conversation with Jennifer Staple-Clark, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Unite For Sight

10:00-10:55am

Human Dignity at the Center of Global Health

• Arachu Castro, Professor and Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University

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

• Kaveh Khoshnood, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health

• Laura Herman, Partner, Dalberg

• Marx Lwabanya, Medical Doctor at Nundu Deaconess Hospital, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

11:00-11:55am

Defining Purpose in Global Health

• Kala Mehta, Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

• Daniel Palazuelos, Director of Community Health Systems, Partners In Health; Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

• Linda Reinstein, President/CEO and Co-Founder, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO)

• Eliza Squibb, Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Derek Yach, Global Health Consultant

12:00-12:55pm: Lunch and Networking

12:00-12:30pm: Poster Presentations

1:00-1:55pm

What Comes Next For Global Health?

• Adeline Boatin, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School; Co-Director of Global Health, Department OB/GYN, Massachusetts General Hospital

• Anatole Manzi, Deputy Medical Officer and Director, Global Learning Collaborative, Partners in Health

• Sam Daley-Harris, Founder, RESULTS & Civic Courage

• Seth Wanye, Founder and Ophthalmologist, Friends Eye Clinic, Ghana

• Moderated by Daniel Palazuelos, Director of Community Health Systems, Partners In Health; Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

2:00-2:55pm

Designing Better Solutions for Global Health

• 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

• Eliza Squibb, Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye Hospital, NYSASDRI, India

• Moderated by Cal Bruns, CEO and Chief Creative Incubationist, Matchboxology

3:00-3:55pm

What Real Impact Looks Like

• Corrado Cancedda, Consultant in Health Equity and Social Impact, University of Global Health Equity

• Anatole Manzi, Deputy Medical Officer and Director, Global Learning Collaborative, Partners in Health

• Kala Mehta, Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

• Daniel Palazuelos, Director of Community Health Systems, Partners In Health; Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

• Katherine Semrau, Director, Ariadne Labs

• Moderated by K. Davina Frick, Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School 

4:00-4:55pm

Leading Change

• Anatole Manzi, Deputy Medical Officer and Director, Global Learning Collaborative, Partners in Health

• Julie Mountcastle, Head of School and Chief Innovator, Slate School

• Sarang Samal, Founder, Kalinga Eye Hospital, NYSASDRI, India

• Katherine Semrau, Director, Ariadne Labs

• Moderated by Derek Yach, Global Health Consultant

SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2026

All times are Eastern Time.

9:00-10:55am: Workshops By Plenary Speakers

11:00am-11:55am: Lunch

12:00pm-12:55pm

Better Together: Working in Partnership

• Arachu Castro, Professor and Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University

• K. Davina Frick, Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School 

• Linda Reinstein, President/CEO and Co-Founder, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO)

• Speaker TBA

1:00-1:55pm

Local Leadership and Global Partnerships

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

• Marx Lwabanya, Medical Doctor at Nundu Deaconess Hospital, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

• Eliza Squibb, Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Seth Wanye, Founder and Ophthalmologist, Friends Eye Clinic, Ghana

• Moderated by Daniel Palazuelos, Director of Community Health Systems, Partners In Health; Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

2:00-2:55pm

The UnConference: Community-Based Problem Solving Session

• Join other attendees for an UnConference session. Gather together for the first few minutes to discuss your own interests and needs, and then guided by a facilitator, the group will decide on topics for discussion. All participants will share their experiences and knowledge during this community-based problem solving session.