Healthcare: Early Detection And Prevention
Friday, March 27, 2009
Session Description
Practitioner Showcase: The gap between rich and poor is manifest in any number of ways, particularly in healthcare, where governments and markets have failed the most vulnerable populations. Four passionate and gifted social entrepreneurs will discuss their innovations and demonstrate how lives can improve against seemingly insurmountable odds. Learn about the simple, scalable, and extremely successful approaches they’ve taken to healthcare delivery, prevention and education.
Time & Location
Time:
10:45 - 12:15, Friday, March 27, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Professor/Founder, Stanford University
Nathan Wolfe holds the Lorry Lokey Visiting Professorship in Human Biology at Stanford University. He received his doctorate in immunology and infectious diseases from Harvard University in 1998, and has been the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship (1997), the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award…
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Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to improving health care for the world's poorest people. He is Co-founder and Chief Strategist of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that since 1987 has provided direct health care services and…
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Gene Falk is one of the few people to lead major ventures in both Fortune 500 companies and the non-profit sector. Building on this experience, he founded and heads strategic consulting firm FalkAdvisors|DGB whose mission is to help funders and the not-for-profits they support achieve the best…
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CEO, Evity Technologies, Evity Technologies
Dr. Larry Brilliant, a physician and epidemiologist, is CEO of Evity Technologies, a startup at the intersection of epidemiology, healthspan and AI. He was CEO of Pandefense Advisory, senior advisor at the Skoll Foundation and a CNN Medical Analyst. Previously on the boards of the Skoll Foundation and…
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I am a Zen Buddhist monk and social entrepreneur. Graduated in Product Design from Antwerp University, and with a vision to empower the most vulnerable communities of subsistence farmers in sub-Sahara Africa, I took the initiative to train giant African rats (AKA HeroRATs) as sustainable…
