Registration is now open for The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship's (ASF's) 4th Annual Fellows for Life Conference.  Registration will close on October 1, 2010.  Register early to guarantee your space!

About the Conference

Read The Boston Globe's coverage of the 1st Annual Fellows for Life Conference here!

Each year, ASF supports approximately 200 Schweitzer Fellows - primarily university graduate students - as they partner with community-based organizations to identify an unmet health need, design a yearlong service project with a demonstrable impact on that need, and bring that project from idea to implementation and impact.

There are now more than 2,000 Schweitzer Fellows for Life (program alumni) across the country and the world - and ASF's annual Fellows for Life (FFL) Conference provides a unique opportunity for these individuals to partake in dynamic, interdisciplinary dialogue about our nation’s most pressing health needs; engage with leaders who are advancing the movement to eliminate health disparities; and come away with both a deepened commitment to meeting the health needs of underserved people, and sharpened skills that make living up to that commitment possible. 

The main goals of the Conference are to:

• Strengthen leadership skills of FFL in
  health-related service: achieved through a series of plenary and breakout sessions featuring both prominent leaders in the health and service fields, and front-line role models in direct service.
  
• Engage FFL with their similarly passionate, service-oriented colleagues in promoting an ethic of lifelong service throughout the health professions: we hope this opportunity to create dialogue with interdisciplinary peers will help Fellows share ideas, best practices and experiences.

In addition to breakout sessions focused on important health issues including disaster response, health care reform, and barriers to refugee health care access, this year's 4th Annual Fellows for Life Conference will feature keynote speaker Wynona Ward, a Schweitzer Fellow for Life and a 2010 CNN Hero who has dedicated her life to ending the cycle of domestic violence in rural communities.

Stay tuned for an announcement about the 2010 Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, which will also be presented at the Conference! Last year's recipient was former U.S Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher.

For a recap of last year's 3rd Annual Fellows for Life Conference, click here. 

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For more information about the Conference, please explore the links on the left or contact
Meghan Johnson at mjohnso9@bidmc.harvard.edu.