We will now be accepting abstract proposals through Nov. 30th, 2011. All criteria and guidelines remain the same.
If you have any questions, please contact Colleen Fulp at the Global Health Resource Center (GHRC) at cfulp@u.washington.edu
The WRIHC is excited to announce Kavita N. Ramdas as our keynote speaker for the 2012 conference: “At A Crossroads: Choosing Hidden Paths in Global Health.”
Kavita Ramdas is an inspirational and mindful leader, an advocate for human rights, open and civil societies, and a respected advisor and commentator on issues of social entrepreneurship, global development, leadership, education, health, and philanthropy. Kavita has spent her professional life shaping a world where gender equality and justice can help ensure human rights and dignity for all.
Kavita currently serves as the Executive Director of Ripples to Waves: Program on Social Entrepreneurship and Development at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). She conceptualized and designed the program with key faculty leaders to deepen the links and learning opportunities among social change leaders, global philanthropy, academia and the private sector, while empowering social entrepreneurs to share their ideas on gender, democracy and civil society.
Kavita served as President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, from 1996 to 2010, which grew under her leadership to become the world’s largest public foundation for women’s rights. During her tenure, the Global Fund’s assets increased to $21 million from $3 million, giving women in more than 170 countries critical access to financial capital that fueled innovation and change.
Prior to the Global Fund for Women, Kavita was at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, leading grantmaking programs in Economic Development, Reproductive Health, and Population. Kavita is the recipient of numerous philanthropic and leadership awards including the Council on Foundation’s Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking and Legal Momentum’s 2011 Women of Achievement Award.
Kavita serves on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University, Mount Holyoke College, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Planned Parenthood Federation of the USA, and the African Women’s Development Fund USA. She Chairs the newly formed Women in Public Service, an Initiative developed and led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Melanne Verveer Ambassador at large for Women’s Rights of the US State Department. She also chairs the Expert Working Group of the Council of Global Leaders for Reproductive Health, an initiative of the Aspen Institute, led by Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland. She recently completed her term as Member of the first-ever
Advisory Panel to the Global Development Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Kavita serves on a number of Advisory Councils, including those of the Global Health Initiative for the University of Chicago, the Asian University for Women, Room to Read, and the African Women’s Millennium Initiative on Poverty and Human Rights.Kavita was born and raised in India, has lived in the UK, Burma and Germany, and was educated at Delhi University, Mount Holyoke College, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Kavita lives with her husband, Zulfiqar Ahmad, and daughter, Mira, in California.
Criteria for Submission: students, faculty and professionals of all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts for posters and/or oral presentations on the conference theme of “At a Crossroads: Choosing Hidden Paths in Global Health.”
We will accept approximately 30 posters through a competitive process and a very limited number of oral presentations. We are looking for presentations that speak to the following conference foci:
Politics of the Global Health Agenda:
Whether through funding, media attention or professional training, certain health issues are deemphasized or ignored all together. What factors constitute what is hot and what is not in global health? How are our larger health systems responding to cuts in government funding, debates on health-coverage, and heightened defense spending in numerous countries?
Training of Health Care Professionals:
What innovative training/education models are being implemented in the field that is relevant to the needs of communities? What are current gaps in training/education, and how can these gaps be discussed and remedied?
Realties in the Field:
Which populations are we not responding to and why? How can these populations be better served considering a) constraints of normative paradigms b) limited resources c) building on work already being done in local communities?
Criteria for selection: The abstract committee will review all submissions by the following criteria: originality; organization; quality and clarity; methods and materials used; and relevance of the project to the conference foci.
Deadline: Submission Deadline is November 15, 2011. Late submissions will not be accepted.You will be notified by e-mail of your abstract’s acceptance status by January 30, 2012.
Funding: We will not be able to fund your participation: Funding for poster production, travel or registration is not available for this conference. Presenters must be registered for the conference. We urge participants with accepted posters to contact sources at their respective schools for funding and/or fund raising ideas.
Guidelines: All abstracts must be submitted in English. Total word count, excluding author names, affiliations and titles, must be under 250 words. Submissions with word counts far exceeding 250 will not be considered by the review committee. Handwritten abstracts will not be reviewed.
To submit your abstract, go to our dropbox here.
If you have any questions other than where to submit regarding an abstract submission, please contact Colleen Fulp at the Global Health Resource Center (GHRC) at cfulp@u.washington.edu .
The 9th annual Western Regional International Health Conference will be kicking off on April 27th, 2012. The theme is “At A Crossroads: Choosing Hidden Paths in Global Health.” The idea is that now, with the increased focus on the role of global health, is an ideal time to look at which situations and responses have been explored, and which have not. In this conference, we seek to look at what has changed on the global stage, and how we may respond to the changes.
We look forward to exploring these issues with all who can take this journey with us.
If you’d like to help shape which pathways we explore, don’t forget to answer our call for abstracts.