GBCHealth 2013 Conference Draws Top Leaders on Business and Global Health; Early Bird Rates End March 15th

The world’s premiere annual conference on business and global health will take place May 15-17, 2013 in New York City.
Mar 11, 2013 3:00 PM ET

The GBCHealth Conference features the most prominent visionaries in business and global health addressing the role of the private sector in improving health in the workplace, community and world.  The conference will take place at the Roosevelt Hotel and include panels and keynotes on the most pressing issues that companies engaged in global health face today.

The conference attracts the most inspiring leaders in global health. Among the keynote and panel speakers this year will be Dr. Mark R. Dybul, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Raymond G. Chambers, the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria; Linda Fried, Dean of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Dr. Richard Besser, Chief Health and Medical Editor, ABC News; and CEOs and executives from the world’s largest companies.  Past conferences have featured U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Ted Turner, Muhtar Kent, CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, Deepak Chopra, Richard Branson, Gordon and Sarah Brown, George Soros, Annie Lennox, Sarah Jessica Parker, Whoopi Goldberg, and many more.

Select session highlights include Born HIV-Free: Achieving Zero Mother-to-Child Transmission by 2015; The Race to Meet the Millennium Development Goals; Saving Children's Lives: How Smart Businesses Are Building Shared Value;  Wellness and Women: From the Corporate Office to the Factory Floor; and When Top Meets Bottom: How Companies and Social Businesses Are Partnering for Health.  Explore more 2013 session topics.

GBCHealth, formerly known as the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, is a non-profit coalition of more than 200 companies working to improve the health of their workforces and communities around the world.

This year’s conference will include a special focus on how businesses can accelerate achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals, a series of specific targets that the global community is racing to reach by December 2015.

Throughout the conference, GBCHealth will bestow its Business Action on Health Awards that honor corporate-led successes that fight the greatest health threats of our time.

Join the conversation and collaboration with attendees from business, government, multilaterals, academia and NGOs.

Early Bird pricing is now in effect until March 15th, so book soon and save. Register now.

 

Media Inquiries: 

Eve Heyn 
Communications Manager
eheyn@gbchealth.org
212-584-1651

Conference Inquiries:

Helen Marks
Communications Associate
conference@gbchealth.org
212-584-1642

 

Contact

Eve Heyn

+1 (212) 584-1651

eheyn@gbchealth.org