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H.E. Dr. Walton Webson is the Permanent Representative of the Mission of Antigua and Barbuda and Founder/Co-chair of the UN Friends of Vision Group. Previously, Ambassador Webson worked for several international nongovernment organizations including Sight Savers International of the (UK), The Caribbean Council for the Blind, (Antigua and Barbuda), Hellen Keller International of New York and Perkins International.
At the UN, Ambassador Webson has served as President for UNICEF, chaired numerous steering committees and was the lead sponsor on two resolutions affecting the lives of persons with disabilities around the world and is considered as a champion on disabilities issues and a leading voice on issues of Small States.
Alex’s early career focused on building and running FP&A functions in large multinational organisations. Since 2005 Alex has been working in the digital platform space including organisations such as the REA Group and also co-founded the first digital private health insurance business in Australia. In 2017 Alex joined Oculo, an eye health clinical communications platform.
It is now part of the global iCare group where Alex works to expand integrated eye health solutions into APAC and beyond. It offers the scope for ongoing and deeper analysis of the economic and social value eye health can bring to communities.
Amanda Davis is the Chair of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) in the Western Pacific region. In this role Amanda works with over 50 member organisations and stakeholders in the region in developing evidence for more effective advocacy and programming, facilitating joint initiatives in the region and working on collective advocacy efforts in the area of blindness prevention. Within IAPB, she also holds positions of Co-chair of the Refractive Error Working Group and member of the steering committee for the Refractive Error Coalition.
Amanda has been working in the area of blindness prevention and public health since 2006. She has extensive experience in developing and implementing organisational strategy, structures and systems. Her experience in effective management encompasses working across education, research, and infrastructure development. She has developed and managed relationships with key stakeholders and partners spanning NGOs, industry, government departments and universities.
Amanda currently holds the position of Director of Strategic Initiatives with the Fred Hollows Foundation and is a Director of PNG Eyecare.
Amanda has nearly twenty year’s working experience in international development sectors, with a focus on children’s welfare, community development and eye health. She has been with The Fred Hollows Foundation for 12 years and is now the Chief Representative for the programme in China.
Amanda has good understanding of health system in China and experience in working with a variety of health facilities, government sectors and rural communities. She has also supported eye care programmes’ planning and evaluation in neighbouring countries, including Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. Amanda is alumni of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Public Health for Eye Care.
Dr Alejandro Panotto Medical Director or Fundacion Vision Paraguay. He was previously the Director of de Vision Program for five years. At the same time, he is de administrator of a rural eye health clinic in the city of Coronel Oviedo.
Before collaborating in Fundacion Vision, he worked in primary health care at the Ministry of Health
Governor “Doktora Helen” Tan is the first woman Chief Executive of the Quezon Province. Prior to her overwhelming and unprecedented election as Governor, she served for three terms as Representative of the 4th District of Quezon where she chaired the Committee on Health of the House of Representatives for six years with great distinction.
In her nine years as legislator, she principally authored a total of 37 laws throughout her legislative career and is one of the country’s universal health care (UHC) champions and internationally recognised for her tuberculosis (TB) advocacy having authored landmark laws such as Republic Act No. 11223, otherwise known as the “Universal Health Care Act” and Republic Act No. 10767, otherwise known as the “Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Plan Act” among many other health reform legislations. She served as Member of the Executive Committee of the Global TB Caucus and Co-Chairperson of the Asia Pacific TB Caucus.
Director, Policy and Advocacy, The Fred Hollows Foundation. Brandon has 20 years experience working in various human rights based policy and advocacy roles within the health, disability and international development sectors.
Previously with the national peak body Vision 2020 Australia, Brandon’s responsibilities spanned prevention, early intervention, Indigenous health, disability and development within the Asia Pacific region. Prior to that, He also spent eight years in the disability sector with Vision Australia promoting the human rights of people who are blind or vision impaired and was recognised with a Victorian Government award in 2014 for his leadership in disability advocacy.
For the past seven years with The Fred Hollows Foundation, Brandon has been responsible for helping shape global eye health norms and policy through multilateral platforms such as the WHO and UN General Assembly. He holds a Bachelor of Social Science in Policy and Research from RMIT University In Melbourne.
Dr Anthea Burnett is a consultant for the IAPB and The Fred Hollows Foundation, and is a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales.
Her work focusses on developing evidence-based strategies to improve access to quality eye care, and building more resilient eye care systems that benefit communities worldwide.
Dr Muhammad Babar Qureshi’s career has been dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by vision impairment and blindness around the world. His commitment to advocating and working for inclusive, equitable and integrated eye care services for everyone has resulted in significant progress and positive change.
He was born Pakistan and then moved with his family to Nigeria, where he was educated and where he graduated as a medical doctor. He did his Residency in Ophthalmology in Nigeria and Austria, followed by his Master’s in Community Eye Health in London. After working as an ophthalmologist in Nigeria for eight years, he moved back to Pakistan where he was the Secretary of the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness, the Secretary of the National Trachoma Task Force and the Director of Academics and Research for the Pakistan Institute of Community Ophthalmology. He was also the Executive Director of the Comprehensive Health and Education Forum International in Pakistan for seven years.
In 1997 he became a Medical Advisor for CBM and is currently the CBM Director of Inclusive Eye Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases and is based in Cambridge, UK. In addition, he is the immediate past Chair of the Eastern Mediterranean Region Alliance for Trachoma Control and the Trachoma Expert Committee. He became a member of the Ophthalmology Foundation Board.
Dr Caroline Casey is the businesswoman and activist behind The Valuable 500, the world’s largest CEO collective and business move for disability inclusion. Dr Casey launched the movement at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Summit in 2019 and since then has signed up 500 multinational organisations with a combined revenue of over $8 trillion, employing 20 million people worldwide to radically transform the business system.
The membership includes 36 of the FTSE 100 companies, 46 of the Fortune 500 and 28 of the Nikkei. Appointed President of the IAPB in 2021, Caroline also sits on several diversity and inclusion boards to include L’Oréal, Sanofi and Sky and is a much sought-after speaker. Caroline has received an honorary doctorate as well as multiple awards and accolades for her work as a disability activist.
Dianne Rogers is the Executive Officer of the Eye Health Aotearoa Trust and the General Manager Policy and Advocacy, Blind Low Vision NZ.
She spearheaded Eye Health Aotearoa’s ECSAT report and the Love Your Eyes campaign in New Zealand.
Dr. Chimgee Chuluunkhuu is the Country Director for Orbis International, is leading innovative programs focusing on providing eye care services to low-density rural populations, strengthening services for ROP and diabetic retinopathy screening in the country.
Dr. Chimgee received a MSc Public Health for Eye Care from the LSHTM, UK.
Assoc. Prof. Daniel Ting is a Senior Consultant in the Surgical Retina Department at the Singapore National Eye Centre, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Director of the Cluster AI Office at SingHealth, and Head of AI and Digital Innovation at the Singapore Eye Research Institute.
His research interests include AI, big data analytics, surgical innovation, retina diseases, and much more. In collaboration with several leading eye centres globally, he and his team have developed and validated a novel and robust AI system using deep learning to detect referable diabetic retinopathy, referable glaucoma suspect, and age-related macular degeneration. He is actively involved in the healthcare AI space, serving in several AI executive committees and editorial boards, and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals.
Assoc. Prof. Ting has received many prestigious scientific awards, including the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Nakajima Award and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Bert Glaser Award for Innovative Research in Retina. He was also ranked as the world’s most influential deep learning healthcare researcher between 2010 and 2021 by Expertscape.
Peter Holland has been Chief Executive of the IAPB since May 2018. Mr. Holland has also worked in the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the National Health Service and the Royal National Institute of the Blind.
After 10 years developing primary care services in the NHS in south London, Mr. Holland joined the FCO where his roles included postings to India and Afghanistan, senior policy roles on counter narcotics and negotiating international intellectual property agreements. At IAPB, Mr. Holland is taking a lead at a global level to promote eye health and to ensure its critical importance to the delivering of UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Fantahun Sidelil Sisay is a public health and development program expert with more than thirteen years public and NGO experiences worked from grassroots facilitation/ Community mobilization, up to supervisor, program officer, coordinator, and program head. I have worked for more than 7 years specific to eye health in an international organizations.
I am currently working as Project officer for comprehensive eye care, Advancing Integrated people centred eye and healthy ageing projects in the Fred Hollows Foundation – Ethiopia country office. Program development, monitor project implementation stages, health system strengthening, build networks, partnership and program management through close collaboration with different level of government ministries and partner organization are my areas of engagement in my career.
Currently working as a health policy advisor for Sightsavers, an international NGO working on eliminating avoidable blindness and ensuring persons with disabilities participate fully in society. She sits on the Friends of Vision Secretariat, Vision for the Commonwealth and works with other members on policy and advocacy globally.
A qualified optometrist with a masters in International Public Health, prior to joining Sightsavers she worked in Irish Aid on EU development policy during the negotiations on the new EU development instruments and prior to that worked in Malawi lecturing and building human resources for eye health
Dr MacKenzie is Director of Riemann Ltd, a vision science consultancy. He is an adviser to the Chen Yet Sen Family Foundation, which funds research that aims to shift global public perception of vision correction, framing poor vision as a development issue, and as the golden thread to achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Graeme trained as an optometrist in South Africa and received a DPhil from the University of Johannesburg in ophthalmic optics. In 2006 Dr MacKenzie move from South Africa to the United Kingdom to work as a scientist at the University of Oxford. He assisted in the commercialisation of a novel ophthalmic lens technology, and in the design and establishment of Rwanda’s Vision for a Nation programme. He maintains a keen interest in using research to educate policy makers on the need for, and benefits of, sight tests and glasses.
A paediatric ophthalmologist, Currently working at Light for the World as Medical Director Eye health, Prior to that I worked for CBM as Senior lecturer University of Papua New Guinea and with support from RANZCO established structured training of ophthalmologists, concurrently was Project Director for the CBM Goroka Eye Unit.
Before taking up the CBM assignment I worked as the Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist at Mulago National Referral Hospital and Honorary Professor of Ophthalmology Makerere College Of Health Sciences, Makerere University. Was honoured to be the first Resident Ophthalmologist and Medical Director at the CBM supported Benedictine Eye Hospital Tororo Uganda. Under the auspices of Ministry of Health Uganda and Lions Aid Norway I presided over the implementation of a comprehensive community eye health programme in Eastern Uganda based at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital.
I had the opportunity to study the following institutions: PhD in optometry at the University of Kwa Zulu Natal Republic of South Africa, Sub specialty training in paediatric ophthalmology research at University of California Los Angeles, Diploma in Community Eye health, International centre of Eye health University of London, Master of Medicine in ophthalmology at Makerere University and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the same University
Dr. G.V.S. Murthy is Vice President (South), Public Health Foundation of India and Director of the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, India. Dr. GVS Murthy has been ranked among the top 2% research scientists of the world by a study conducted by Stanford University, USA in 2020 and 2021.He has worked as faculty at AIIMS, New Delhi and MGIMS, Sevagram prior to joining PHFI.
He worked as Medical Officer, WHO, Geneva on the Childhood Blindness Program (where he helped develop plans for control of childhood blindness across 12 countries) and as M&E Consultant with UNAIDS South Asia (where he operationalized the first population based Behavioral Surveillance Survey for HIV/AIDS covering 85,000 people and 8500 high risk groups across 15 States in India). He also helped in developing the first M&E framework for the National AIDS Control Programme in 2001. Currently he is Technical Advisor to CBM, India, and Research Advisor to Mission for Vision, India, Member, Optometry Council of India & Academic and Research Committee of Adichunchanagiri Deemed University, Belur, Karnataka.
He is also a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Committee on School Reopening after COVID-19. He has also served on the Technical Advisory Group of WHO on Integrated Care for Older People, Technical Advisory Committee of WHO on School Health Services, Scientific Advisory Committee, Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, and WHO Consultative Committee on Monitoring & Implementation of Global Vision2020 activities and served as a member of the Indian Council for Medical Research Consultative Group on Disability.
For over a decade, I have had the privilege of working with the patient and policy community to build sustainable, trusting relationships between people living with different conditions and the private sector. My goal, and my passion, is to ensure that we embed the patient perspective into decision-making at all levels of healthcare.
I joined Roche as Senior Global Patient Partnership Director with the mission to build a network for collaboration between Roche and the eye health patient and policy community. There are two main elements to my job: working with the vision loss community, I strive to ensure their needs are listened to and act as the driving force behind our work in this space. I am also focused on inspiring my colleagues to bring even more of the patient perspective into their day-to-day work. By bringing these elements together, I believe we can drive towards our united vision of saving sight.
Through my work with the community, I have had the opportunity to learn and understand just how profound the impact of vision loss can be; not just for the individuals but also for their loved ones. I am grateful to be in a position where I can support deliver solutions to those affected that can make a genuine positive impact. It is an incredibly exciting time to be working in vision health, with the emergence of ground-breaking innovations and further developments on the horizon. I look forward to continuing to work closely with the vision loss community and my exceptional colleagues at Roche as we work to transform lives.
K-T Overbey joined HCP Cure blindness as Chief Executive Officer in October 2022 after serving as President of OneSight for the previous five years and in various executive positions in the non-profit and corporate world prior to that.
She also sits on the IAPB Board of Trustees and is dedicated to building partnerships that can help eliminate blindness across the world where care is most needed.
Dr. Khaleda Islam Director, Primary Health Care (Retired), is currently involved with Ministry of Health and family welfare (MOH&FW), Bangladesh for developing the fifth HPN sector program. She is experienced in primary health care (PHC) system strengthening to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), and supported PHC for Rohingya refugee.
Dr Islam is also contributing to the Medical Education of the country. She conducted several international assignments in different countries (Sri Lanka, AJK Pakistan, Afghanistan, Liberia and South Punjab Pakistan), and worked with WHO, and other INGOs (GIZ, MERLIN, World Vision, Save the Children, CARE, JICA, Fleming Fund Country Grant, DAI LLC Int etc.) to support the government to strengthen PHC. She was an implementation research facilitator of WHO/TDR, in Ghana, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. Her passion is PHC and conducted research in the area.
Louisa has brought more than fifteen years’ experience in senior roles to The Foundation, including six years at the British Council, where she founded the global innovation challenge #ideaschangelives and empowered colleagues to create strategic partnerships with other organisations where the British Council could extend its impact, reach and be more innovative. Louisa also spent three years at Save the Children, where she led income growth of 926% through a range of new partnerships that focussed on supporting the newly launched UK poverty portfolio.
Louisa holds a Bachelor of Arts (Politics and History) from the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Arts (Cyberculture and the Law) from Macquarie University, she is a member of the BOND SDG Steering Committee, Vice Chair for Sutton Vision, a small sight-loss charity in the London borough of Sutton and Vice Chair for the John and Joan Corfield Charitable Trust, a small charity dedicated to supporting young people in Streatham.
Jack is Senior Health Economist at the Fred Hollows Foundation. He has extensive experience conducting large-scale health economics research and evaluation throughout the globe.
Jack is particularly interested in measuring the social and economic benefits associated with improvements in eye health, and his recent work has focused on understanding how cataract and refractive error schemes can be sustainably financed as part of universal health coverage.
Prof Jodhbir Mehta is Executive Director of the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI), Distinguished Professor, Corneal & External Eye Disease and Refractive Department at Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC). Named Professor of Clinical Innovation at SNEC/SERI. Director of Education, Singhealth Transplant. Published >490 peer-reviewed papers and 20 book chapters.
Current H-index 68, citations 17,274. Given >300 invited plenary, symposium and named lectures globally with over 66 national and international awards. His research work as generated 17 patents, 5 of which have been licensed. Has trained 28 international fellows, 5 masters students and 8 PhD students. Research program comprising of clinical and translational studies focused on corneal transplantation, femtosecond laser technology, corneal imaging, corneal infections, corneal refractive surgery, keratoprosthesis surgery and corneal genetics.
Jacqui worked in global eye health programme management—primarily in the Asia-Pacific region—for more than 15 years before completing a PhD in 2015 focused on equity in eye health.
After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in 2020 at the International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Jacqui returned home to Aotearoa New Zealand. She now holds a joint appointment at ICEH and the School of Optometry and Vision Science at The University of Auckland, and is a member of the leadership team at ICEH.
While in London, Jacqui enjoyed working closely with Prof Matthew Burton and Prof Hannah Faal in their role as co-chairs of the Lancet Commission on Global Eye Health, and valued the opportunity to contribute to such an impactful project for our sector. In Aotearoa New Zealand, Jacqui is collaborating with a multi-disciplinary group of researchers, working towards improving equity in access to services and ultimately eye health outcomes for all New Zealanders.
Dr Garap graduated as Ophthalmologist from the University of Papua New Guinea in 1997. Practicing as General Ophthalmologist with special interest in medical retina and public health. Dr Garap worked with the government in various capacities until 2014, three years as the deputy chief of the Southern Region, became PBL President since its inception in 2012, resigned and spent four years in private practice during which time continuing as PBL President.
Honorary lecturer at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Papua New Guinea from 2003 to 2020. From 2020-2022 Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmology and more recently in March 2023 as a Clinical Coordinator of Port Moresby General Hospital (PNG’s only tertiary referral and teaching hospital.
Part of a very vibrant PBL committee in the Pacific, achieving a lot for eye care in PNG through improved collaborative efforts with all PBL stakeholders . The members of the PBL are: Brien Holden Foundation, Fred Hollows Foundation, CBM. Callan Services, YWAM, Laila Foundation, The Department of Health through all Doctors and Eye Nurse/Ophthalmic Clinicians.
Jennifer has extensive experience working in government and the not-for-profit sector, across the health, disability and international development sectors and has a reputation for fostering collaboration and delivering results by applying innovative strategic approaches to advocacy. Jennifer joined The Fred Hollows Foundation in 2016 after a decade as CEO of Vision 2020 Australia. In addition to leading advocacy efforts globally, she is a champion for gender equity working to end gender discrimination in eye health and embed equity and inclusion in all aspects of The Foundation’s work.
As an International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness Trustee, she continues to promote positive action towards gender and inclusion, chairing the Gender Equity Work Group. Awarded a fellowship under Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, Jennifer continues to engage in inter-disciplinary academic learning, leadership development and peer-to-peer collaboration to create a social impact project focused on sustainable and equitable eye health.
Based in Singapore for the 13 years, Lara Partridge is the Head of Talent Acquisition for Asia Pacific for HSBC and has spent her career specializing in Talent Strategy, EX, DE&I and Sustainability across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Prior to joining HSBC Lara worked as Santen Global Head of Sustainability & Talent, where she led a global team of impact and talent specialists working on ESG, Talent Acquisition and Talent Management focusing on social innovation and health equity.
Passionate about eye health, DE&I and sustainable philanthropy, Lara has contributed to multiple eye health iniatives including leading a Mount Kilimanjaro global fundraising climb in 2017 as part of the Standard Chartered Seeing is Believing partnership with IAPB.
Patricia Marques is an Assistant Professor in Health Economics at the International Centre for Eye Health/ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She completed her PhD in Public Health in the specialization area of Policy, Management and Health Administration at the National School of Public Health – Nova University of Lisbon (NOVA- NSPH).
Patricia worked for ten years as a research fellow at NOVA- NSPH collaborating in several academic research projects and community related projects in Public Health. Patricia´s research is focussed on the economics of eye health. At the International Centre for Eye Health, she was a Commissioner in the Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health and coordinated the economic section, lead two subsidiary papers and was involved in several other Commission report articles.
She collaborates in several ICEH research projects, is engaged in teaching activities and is establishing a small international collaborative network of people working in the Economics of Eye Heath
Prashant Garg is Executive Chairman of L V Prasad Eye Institute. He has held several leadership positions of the institute before being elected to the present position. He is also the Paul Dubord chair of Cornea, and network director of eye banks of the institute.
His primary area of interest and ongoing research is Corneal infection and has published extensively on epidemiology, clinical features of rare infections, antibiotic resistance in ocular isolates and drug delivery systems. He has received several major grants including ones from Wellcome trust UK, Newton Bhabha Fund – a joint program of the department of biotechnology, Government of India and the Medical Research Council UK, UK Research and Innovation, Department of biotechnology, and the Indian Council of Medical Research. He has published 199 research articles in the peer reviewed journals. With total citation of 4221 he has the h-index of 37. For last two consecutive years his name appeared in the list of top 2% researchers of the world – a list published from Stanford University.
Since the inception of the organisation in 1975.
He is recipient of several awards including the “senior achievement award” from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (2013) and achievement award of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology 2013. He is member of the UKRI International Development Peer Review College.
Reade Fahs is the CEO of National Vision Inc. (NASDAQ: EYE) – – the third largest Optical Chain in the world. He has held this position for 21 years. National Vision operates over 1,300 low priced optical stores in the U.S. as well as 16 e-commerce websites generating over $2 billion in sales.
Reade has long been dedicated to providing eyeglasses to the world’s poor. He has actively served on the Board of two optically focused social enterprises for over a decade — VisionSpring and RestoringVision.org. Together these two philanthropies have brought sight to over 22 million low-income people in over 130 countries around the world. He is also an active Steering Committee Member of the Coalition for Clear Vision.
Additionally, Reade has served on the South East Regional Board of Young President’s Association, President of the Harvard Club of Georgia, Regional Director of the Harvard Alumni Association, Chairman of Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, Chairman of the Carter Center Board of Councilors, and served on the Boards of the Woodruff Arts Center, (America’s 3rd largest arts organization), Wilberforce University (America’s oldest private HBCU), and Salus University/Pennsylvania College of Optometry. Reade was also a Co-Producer of the critically acclaimed Broadway musical THE PROM which won the 2019 Drama Desk award for Best Musical and became a hit Netflix film.
In 2015, Reade was awarded the National EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Retail and Consumer. Reade lives in Atlanta with his wife of 33 years, Katie, who works at CARE and serves on the Board of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Riad Ragueb is the Director, Cooperation and Capacity Development Department at the Islamic Development Bank, Headquarters in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He currently oversees various areas such as Regional Integration, Science and Technology and South-South Cooperation programs, including Reverse Linkage which is a technical cooperation mechanism introduced by the Bank to facilitate South-South and Triangular Cooperation amongst IsDB member countries.
He joined IsDB as a Young Professional in the year 2000 and served in different positions, including Operations Officer in the Office of the Vice President, Operations; Senior Operations Officer in the Technical Cooperation Office; and Manager of Science & Technology and Technical Cooperation Division. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked as a Program Officer at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in his home country -Djibouti- for almost three years. He holds a Master’s Degree in Development Economics from Paris Sorbonne University.
An ophthalmologist and public health specialist
Director/Board Representative of Fundacion Vision, Business & Social Entrepreneur. Ryan served as part of the council of Fundación Vision for the last 5 years prior being appointed as Board Representative and supervising the companies related to the institution.
For 7 years he was CEO of Meister, an Optic Store Chain, Pharmacy and Laboratory. And before he was involved in different companies/businesses from different sectors such as hardware/construction import, grains and charcoal export, organization of an international event related to church and as consulter for different institutions.
Sumrana Yasmin is Deputy Technical Director for Eye Health at Sightsavers, based in Pakistan. She is Co-Chair of IAPB’s Vision Rehabilitation work group and a member of work groups on Gender Equity, Refractive Errors and School Eye Health. Her work focuses on developing scalable eye health programmes in low- and middle-income countries to strengthen health and education systems, with a focus on ensuring inclusion, equity, and sustainable development.
She actively promotes gender equity by documenting and researching gender issues related to eye health and education; strengthening the capacity of partner organisations to integrate gender equity in various initiatives; advocating for gender equity and social inclusion in development policies and strategies; and supporting women’s empowerment and leadership in programme development.
