The conference will include 300 speakers who will present lectures and workshops about:
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The conference will include 300 speakers, and the confirmed speakers to date include:
Maternal and Child Health Speakers
- "Improving Maternal and Child Health: A Look at Community Level Interventions that Save Lives," Koki Agarwal, Director MCHIP, Jhpiego
- "State of the World's Children: A Tragedy in the Making," Jane Aronson, MD, CEO, Founder, Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
- "Helping Babies Breathe: Neonatal Care for Resource-Limited Settings," Sara Berkelhamer, MD, Helping Babies Breathe Planning Committee Member, American Academy of Pediatrics; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University
- "Reducing Pre-Eclampsia Morbidity and Mortality in Low-Resource Settings Through the Urine Congo Red Dot (CRD) Test," Irina Buhimschi, MD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science
- "Community Transformation: Using Community-Based Methods to Create Sustainable Change in Maternal and Child Health," Jacqueline Cutts, Founding President and CEO, Safe Mothers, Safe Babies
- "Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: The Forgotten Aspect of Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Affected Settings," Jhumka Gupta, ScD, Assistant Professor, Global Health Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
- "The Global Toll of Preterm Birth: Strengthening Prevention and Care of Prematurity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries," Christopher Howson, PhD, March of Dimes Foundation
- "Clinical and Community Action to Address Postpartum Hemorrhage Plus," Ellen Israel, CNM, MPH, Senior Technical Advisor for Women’s Health and Rights, Pathfinder International
- "Factors Influencing Neonatal Mortality in Rural Ghana," Colleen Kraft, MD, FAAP Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute; Pediatric Program Director, Carilion Clinic-Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
- "Safe Babies: Building Agency in a Rural Kenyan Community," James Nardella, Executive Director, Lwala Community Alliance
- "Reversing the Trend of Separating Infants and Mothers After Delivery at a USA Academic Center and the Impact on Breastfeeding Rates," Maureen Padilla, DNP, RNC-OB, NEA-BC, Administrative Director of Women's and Infant's Services, Harris Health System, Ben Taub General Hospital
- "Friends of Low-Cost IVF: Empowering Infertile Women Globally," Pasquale Patrizio, Professor of Obestrics and Gynecology, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Fertility Center
- "Strengthening Maternal Child Health in Tajikistan by Linking Community and Facility-Based Interventions through Community-Managed Transport Systems," Ramesh Singh, Health Program Manager, Mercy Corps
- "Eliminating Pediatric AIDS, One Mother at a Time," Robin Smalley, Co-Founder/International Director, mothers2mothers International
- "We Care Solar: Bringing Light to Darkened Deliveries," Laura Stachel, MD, MPH, Co-Founder and Executive Director, WE CARE Solar
The registration rate increases after March 10, 2013.
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