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.

Below is the working schedule for April 2025, which is subject to adjustments.

SATURDAY, April 26, 2025

All times are Eastern Time.

9:00-9:55am

Keynote Conversation

• Ned Breslin, Author and WASH Specialist at Global Support & Development, In Conversation with Jennifer Staple-Clark, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Unite For Sight

10:00-10:55am

Overcoming Global Health Challenges

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

• Ambrose Katungi Muhwezi, Africa Regional Director, We Care Solar

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

• Mark Roithmayr, CEO, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

• Speaker TBA

11:00-11:55am

Where We Are Now in Global Health

• Ned Breslin, Author and WASH Specialist at Global Support & Development 

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

• Laura Herman, Partner, Dalberg

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

• Speaker TBA

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

1:00-1:55pm

Advancing Healthcare Access in Low-Resource Settings

• 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

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

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

• Speaker TBA

2:00-2:55pm

From Imagination to Impact: Unleashing Creative Solutions

• Cal Bruns, CEO and Chief Creative Incubationist, Matchboxology

• Charlotte Cole, Executive Director, Blue Butterfly Collaborative

• Wendy Ostroff, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Developmental Psychology, Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University

• Lisa Russell, Emmy-Winning Filmmaker and Global Health

• Speaker TBA

3:00-3:55pm

Measuring True Success: Authentic Metrics in Global Health

• Paul Ellingstad, Managing Partner, PTI Advisors

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

• Bobby Jefferson, Vice President, DAI

• Speaker TBA

4:00-4:55pm

Leadership With Purpose

• Ana Rowena Mallari, CEO and Co-Founder, Questbridge

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

• Additional speakers TBA

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2025

All times are Eastern Time.

9:00-10:55am: Social Impact Pitches and Competition

11:00am-11:55am: Lunch

12:00pm-12:55pm

Stronger Together: Harnessing the Power of Collaboration

• Cleveland Justis, CEO and Principal, Potero Group

• Gary Oppenheimer, Founder and Executive Director, AmpleHarvest.org

• Jenny Shapiro, Senior Manager, Health Equity, Clinton Global Initiative

• Additional speakers TBA

1:00-1:55pm

Global Health and Spirituality

• Yusuf Ransome, Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health

• Derek Yach, Global Health Consultant

• Additional speakers TBA

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.