Sir Ken Robinson uses the term the Element to describe the intersection of the things that we are good at and the things that we love to do. At the Global Health & Innovation Conference, we curate an environment where every person is nurtured to grow creatively together, with passion and purpose. “For most people, a primary component of being in their Element is connecting with other people who share their passion and a desire to make the most of themselves through it.”—Sir Ken Robinson

Plenary Speakers

• David Aylward, Senior Advisor,Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center ; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

• Shahed Alam, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Noora 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

• Jeffrey Blander, Chief Innovation Officer, Office of The Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State

• Ned Breslin, Author and Founder, Invitation

• Cal Bruns, CEO and Chief Creative Incubationist, Matchboxology

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

• Charlotte Cole, Executive Director, Blue Butterfly Collaborative

• Paul Ellingstad, Managing Partner, PTI Advisors

• Carolyn Fredericks, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine

• Kevin Frick, Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

• Laura Herman, Partner, Dalberg

• Lisa Hirschhorn, Professor, Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; Senior Director, Implementation and Improvement Science, Last Mile Health

• Jonathan Jackson, Chief Executive Officer, Dimagi

• Elizabeth Johansen, Founder, Principal Consultant, Spark Health Design

• Cleveland Justis, Principal, Potrero Group

• Robert Kalyesubula, Senior Lecturer, Nephrologist and Head of Department of the Physiology, Makerere University

• Firdaus Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Culture Shift

• Thane Kreiner, Co-Founder, Black Corporate Board Readiness Executive Director Emeritus, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship

• Gene Kwan, Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine; Health and Policy Advisor, Partners In Health

• Jordan Levy, Chief External Relations Officer, Ubuntu Pathways

• Tracey Li, Senior Data Lead, D Tree

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

• Regan Marsh, Senior Technical Lead, US Public Health Accompaniment Unit, Partners In Health; Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

• Lynn Michalopoulos, Founder and President of the Board, The Moving Well Project International; Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore

• Julie Mountcastle, Head of School, Slate School

• Rodney North, Cooperative and Social Enterprise Consultant

• Sylvia Ofori, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

• Santa Ono, President, University of Michigan

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

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

• Jerry Pavlon-Blum, Director Of External Affairs and Program Innovation at Robert Louis Stevenson School

• Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of Houston Downtown; Founder and Director, Design Global Change

• Lindsey Pollaczek, Chief Program Officer, Fistula Foundation

• Denny Recio, Co-Founder and Director of Student Life, New Summit Academy

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

• Ash Rogers, Co-CEO, Lwala Community Alliance

• Debbie Rogers, CEO, Reach Digital Health

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

• Adam Schwartz, Deputy Medical Officer, Americares

• Alexandra Scott, President, Global Environment & Technology Foundation, and Director of Program Delivery, Project Last Mile

• Katherine Semrau, Director, BetterBirth Program, Ariadne Labs; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Epidemiologist, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital

• Hellen Shakele, Lecturer, Zambia Institute of Special Education; Founder, Lumareti School and Center

• Eliza Squibb, Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Laura Stachel, Co-Founder and Executive Director, We Care Solar

• Sten Vermund, Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine; President, Global Virus Network

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