URBim | for just and inclusive cities

Event: Global Health & Innovation Conference
13–14 April 2013 Yale University, New Haven, CT

Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) non-profit global health delivery organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. To date, Unite For Sight has provided eye care to more than 1.4 million people worldwide, including more than 54,000 sight-restoring surgeries. Our annual Global Health & Innovation Conference convenes 2,200 participants from all 50 states and more than 50 countries to exchange ideas and strategies across all disciplines of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. Learn more.

Event: Tomorrow People Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection Conference
9–11 March, 2013 Bangkok, Thailand

This conference will focus on issues of poverty and its eradication, social inequality, race relations and policy management and mismanagement with an international perspective. As poverty continues to be an ongoing, often-inhumane problem, this conference aims to provide a comparative perspective in analyzing past/current trends and conditions to better understand the never-ending downward spiral many individuals and families find themselves in. Learn more.

Event: Education and Development Conference
5–7 March 2013 Bangkok, Thailand

This three-day program is unlike most academic conferences. It aims to bring scholars and students together as well as experienced professionals willing to learn, share their ideas and their great achievements, while addressing the importance of education and its strong correlation with development. Learn more.