The Liverpool Football Club (LFC) will partner with Seeing is Believing again for the “Perfect Match” this year too. On Tuesday, 10 February, 8pm GMT, LFC will once again swap the logo on the first team home shirt to “Seeing is Believing” during the game against Tottenham Hotspur. This is the fourth consecutive year in…
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Carmen Choy is the new Head of Seeing is Believing in January 2015. She has moved to London from Hong Kong to take up this responsibility. Carmen joined Standard Chartered in 2008 as part of the Hong Kong Corporate Affairs team, focusing on sustainability, sponsorship and brand management. In 2012, not long after the…
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1st World Congress of Optometry, 14-16 August 2015, Medellin The World Council of Optometry (WCO) and La Federación Colombiana de Optómetras (FEDOPTO) are delighted to announce the launch of the 1st World Congress of Optometry. This is the first global optometry conference and a unique and unmissable event for anyone in the eye health sector…
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The annual MSc Public Health for Eye Care at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is accepting applications. This course aims to provide eye health professionals with the public health knowledge and skills required to reduce blindness and visual disability in their setting. The training will enable them to: Develop a public…
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Helen Keller International (HKI) will be leading the implementation of Morbidity Management and Disability Prevention for Blinding Trachoma and Lymphatic Filariasis (MMPD) activities, under a five year, $35 million Cooperative Agreement with USAID. This activity will provide USAID, the Bureau for Global Health (GH), and the NTD Program with assistance to strengthen MMDP components within…
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2014 was a big year for the “Light For the World” international NGO confederation, and topping it is the news that they have performed 50,000 cataract surgeries in 2014. “Our goal was to do 50,000 cataract operations in all of our focus countries, for example in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, but also in northeast India and…
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L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) has become the first Institute in the world to perform 20,000 corneal transplants across its network. The record was achieved in the 25th year of establishment of LVPEI’s Ramayamma International Eye Bank, the largest eye bank in Asia. The eye bank was established at LVPEI in 1989 with financial…
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Nominations are now being accepted for the Lions/PAAO Award in Blindness Prevention, which will be awarded at the XXXI Pan-American Congress in Ophthalmology, to be hosted in Bogota, Colombia in August 2015. The award will be granted to a Colombian ophthalmologist who has demonstrated a strong commitment to providing and developing eye care services…
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The International Federation on Ageing (IFA), the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and IAPB, working in collaboration with the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) are trying to gather evidence on knowledge, policies, standards of care, and supportive services for Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetic Macular Edema across 42 countries. Phase I used numerous interviews to better understand…
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2015 Joanne Angle Investigator Award – a research grant by Prevent Blindness Deadline: March 6, 2015 at 12pm Eastern The 2015 Joanne Angle Investigator Award provides funding for research investigating public health related to eye health and safety. Applications will be accepted in the following priority areas in adult vision, children’s vision, or eye injury:…
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IAPB is looking to hire two Communications Officers – Design and UI – with excellent Communications skills in Hyderabad, India. We will be setting up a new office in Hyderabad and the Officers will work with the Communications Manager to deliver IAPB’s Communications strategy. We will be working on new web properties (websites, microsites, social)…
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The IAPB leads international efforts to prevent blindness. Our vision is a world in which everyone has access to the best possible standard of eye health; where no one is needlessly visually impaired; and where those with irreparable vision loss achieve their full potential. IAPB in Latin America is looking for a Regional programme manager…
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Seeing is Believing announces funding for 13 countries for Seeing is Believing Type 1 projects.
IAPB Latin America is looking to contract an ophthalmologist with a public health background for about 50 days (negotiable) a year. The overall purpose of this consultancy is to provide leadership and strategic direction to IAPB’s work in the Latin America region and to ensure that the objectives of the Regional Action Plan for the…
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All people everywhere should be able to access health services including eye health services, whatever their social or economic background, their gender, age, or health status. Yet the reality is high proportions of people globally cannot afford to access even basic services, or are excluded in other ways, such as persons with vision impairment may…
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There are an estimated 21 million people in Vietnam with uncorrected refractive error, three million of those, children. October 2014 heralded a historic moment in the growth of Vietnam’s education and eye health sectors with the official opening of Vietnam’s first optometry program at the Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine in Ho Chi Minh…
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Australia is one step closer to eliminating blindness and vision impairment following a Federal Government funding announcement for a major survey that will map the prevalence of eye conditions nationally. In what is a first for Australia, a National Eye Health Survey has been given a $1.126 million funding injection by the Minister for Health…
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The Champalimaud Foundation is inviting nominations and applications for the €1 million 2015 António Champalimaud Vision Award. The annual António Champalimaud Vision Award will be presented in 2015 to groups with outstanding contributions towards the prevention and alleviation of blindness and visual impairment, primarily in developing countries. The award is directed to groups actively involved…
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IAPB supports a RAAB Training of Trainers: June 16th – 21st, UK
The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, in collaboration with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness – Eastern Mediterranean Region (IAPB-EMR), IMPACT-EMR and Prevention of Blindness Union (PBU) organized a regional workshop on WHO Global Action Plan 2014-2019 ‘Towards Universal Eye Health’ and Child Eye Health, from 18 to 20 March 2014…
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