Program at a Glance

Sunday, September 19

2:00 - 8:00 pm Registration and Speaker Check-in
5:30 - 7:00 pm Welcome and Opening Comments: King Holmes and Haile Debas
Live Webcast Plenary Session
Building Academic Partnerships for Global Health
7:00 - 8:30 pm Reception

Monday, September 20

7:00 - 8:00 am Registration
8:00 - 8:45 am Introduction: King Holmes
Live Webcast Hans Rosling and Melinda French Gates live from TEDxChange:
The Future We Make, An Examination of Progress Made Toward the Millennium Development Goals
8:45 – 9:00 am Conference Highlights: King Holmes
9:00 - 10:45 am Plenary Session
Live Webcast The Role of Universities in Global Health
10:45 - 11:00 am Break
11:00 - 12:45 pm Plenary Session
Live Webcast Mobilizing Resources for Global Health
12:45 - 1:45 pm Lunch and Poster Session
1:45 - 3:15 pm Invited Panels
  • Enabling Systems: Legal, Regulatory and Administrative Infrastructure
    to Support Advances in Global Health
  • Fogarty International Center: Responding to the Global Health Challenge
  • Health of Women, Mothers and Children
  • Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases
  • Regional University Global Health Consortia
3:15 - 3:45 pm Break
3:45 - 5:15 pm Invited Panels and Submitted Presentations
  • Educational Innovation and Experiences
  • Educational Innovation and Experiences
  • Enabling Systems - Legal, Regulatory and Administrative Infrastructure
    to Support Advances in Global Health
  • Building Innovative Global Health Education and Research Capacity
  • The Environment, Climate Change and Global Health
5:30 - 6:30 pm Reception and Poster Session
6:30 - 8:30 pm Dinner ($55)

Tuesday, September 21

7:45 - 8:30 am Registration
8:30 - 10:15 am Plenary Session
Live Webcast The Global Health Initiative
10:15 - 10:45 am Break
10:45 - 12:15 pm Invited Panels
  • Enabling Systems: Safety and Security Best Practices
  • Engineering, Innovative Technologies and Global Health
  • Global Health Policy and Diplomacy
  • Journalism, New Media and Global Health
  • Legal Session (Closed Session)
  • One Health: Detection and Control of Emerging and Endemic Zoonotic Pathogens
12:15 - 1:15 pm Lunch and Poster Session
Advocacy/Legislative Session (Closed Session)
1:15 - 2:45 pm Invited Panels and Submitted Presentations
  • Global Health Policy, Diplomacy and Capacity Building
  • Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
  • Educational Innovation and Experiences: Innovations in Educational Technologies*
  • Enabling Systems: Legal Issues in Implementing and Managing Global Health
    Programs
  • Health Systems and Implementation Science
2:45 - 3:15 pm Break
3:15 - 4:45 pm Invited Panels and Submitted Presentations
  • Chronic Diseases, Innovations in Health Systems, and Data for Decision Making
  • Educational Innovation and Experiences: Innovations in Educational Programs
  • Enabling Systems Round Table Discussion
  • Injury, Trauma, Violence and Essential Surgical Services
  • The Wellcome Trust Approach to Capacity Building
5:00 - 6:00 pm Closing Plenary Session
Live Webcast  
The Future: Next Steps for Universities in Global Health
Moderator: Judy Wasserheit
Conference Reports
  • University Enabling Systems
  • Educational Innovation
  • Science and Technology
The Health Sciences Perspective
The University Perspective
Invitation to Montreal 2011

* Jointly offered by CUGH and GHEC

Last updated September 8th