Global Health, Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Conference

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The Global Health and Innovation Conference is the leading international convention global health, and it has also become a social entrepreneurship conference in recent years as the two areas are so closely related. The conference attract over 2,000 professionals and students from across the US and around the world who are leading research and practice in the areas of global health, social entrepreneurship and international development.

The conference features social innovation sessions led by well known social entrepreneurs such as the CEOS of Echoing Green, Water For People, Taproot Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, KIND Healthy Snacks, and Riders for Health. The conference also offers social innovators the chance to pitch their cutting-edge ideas to potential funders in a series of special sessions dedicated to this purpose. The conference is presented annually by nonprofit organization Unite for Sight.

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