UCSF Global Health Sciences, in partnership with the United Nations Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, is hosting a partnership forum for leaders in global health, philanthropy and technology to explore the use of mobile technology to solve global health problems.

The forum will include sessions by executive leadership from Intel Corp., Qualcomm Inc., and Cisco Systems Inc., and will showcase mobile technology used in developing countries to collect, track and deliver health care information and services. More than 100 attendees will participate from industry, philanthropy, non-governmental organizations and universities.

Media are invited to attend panel sessions and see demonstrations of the latest mHealth technology (demonstrations by registration only).

UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center
Fisher Banquet Center
1675 Owens Street (inside William J. Rutter Center)
San Francisco

Friday, May 22
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
mHealth technology demonstrations: 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Health challenges present one of the most formidable obstacles in sustainable global development. The ability of developing countries to address these challenges is severely limited by a paucity of skilled health care workers and by limited communications. Mobile communication offers an effective way to bridge that gap. An estimated 64 percent of the 4 billion mobile phone users worldwide now live in the developing world and by 2012, half of all people in the developing world will have a mobile phone. The concept of mHealth is to use that mobile technology to improve health worldwide.