IntraHealth International ’s SwitchPoint Conference to Spotlight New and Creative Advances in Social Good

Roya Mahboob presents at SwitchPoint 2017. Photo by Ted Richardson for IntraHealth International.April 12, 2018 Chapel Hill, NCOn April 26-27, experts and pioneers from humanitarian efforts around the world will come together in Saxapahaw, NC, for IntraHealth International ’s 7th annualSwitchPoint conference.SwitchPoint brings together hundreds of leaders in global health, humanitarian response, technology, media, and more to report on advances in social good across disciplines and to seed ideas and partnerships for future collaborations. The event will feature more than 30 stage talks by speakers from IBM, Facebook, the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation, Medtronic Foundation, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Orange Mali Foundation, and many more.“There’s phenomenal potential in interdisciplinary collaboration, but how do we bring people together and help make it happen?”“There’s phenomenal potential in interdisciplinary collaboration, but how do we bring people together and help make it happen?” says Heather LaGarde, senior advisor for strategic partnerships at IntraHealth. “This is exactly why IntraHealth created SwitchPoint. Our speakers have crossed boun daries to do amazing things. A car mechanic who invented an ingenious solution for obstructed labor, engineering students who are using drones to deliver medicines in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest—these are the kinds of groundbreaking, world-changing ideas that can come from unexpected partnershi ps....
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