International Centre for Eye Health

25/11/2025

📚 Scholarships Available for ICEH MSc Course

🌍 5 Scholarships for Commonwealth Eye Health Professionals to study in London

Deadline: 9th Dec 2025

Find out more and apply 👉 https://bit.ly/4oZGRNU

*cost doesn't cover living costs, only tuition, visa and flights

24/10/2025

"So although it's great we're delivering all these new innovations, if there was more emphasis on innovating delivery, rather than delivering innovations, I think we'd solve some of these very solvable problems."

ICEH Professor Andrew Bastawrous sat down with The Times 'Planet Hope' podcast, in partnership with ROLEX, about how Peek Vision is bringing sight to millions through improving access to services.

There are 1.1bn people who are yet to access eyecare services who need them and 100m people who simply need a cataract operation.

Peek took a decade to see its first million people, and with its partners is now seeing a million every two months, improving access to care for people around the world.

In a world of big intractable problems, eye health isn't one of them, the only issue is it isn't financed well enough.

Listen now on Spotify: https://pod.fo/e/34356a
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/F4UeHLfmDA8?si=xISCQSof0iSxL7GL&t=1

09/10/2025

In order to , we need research that allows everyone to access services efficiently and cheaply.

At ICEH we have a proud history of developing the next generation of researchers. Since 2010, 28 students have received PhDs through London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and we currently have nine research students studying with us.

Find out more about their projects and how they can help to develop careers here 👉 http://bit.ly/4nBpP8a

At the International Centre for Eye Health we have a proud history of developing research careers globally. Since 2010 we have had 28 research degree students who have been awarded their PhDs, and 16 of these are nationals of low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We currently have 10 students fro...

07/10/2025

📢 New Short Course Alert!

The International Centre for Eye Health are offering a new short course through London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Join us for a 16-week online course tackling global challenges in ophthalmology through the lens of epidemiology, research, and health systems.

What you'll learn:
• Epidemiological principles applied to eye care
• Research methods & ethics
• Health economics & service planning
• Data analysis & critical appraisal

📅 Start date: Monday, 10th November 2025
💻 Format: Free, online, flexible learning with expert-led sessions
📚 Assessment: MCQs, video presentation & written report

Whether you're a clinician or public health professional, this course will sharpen your research skills to make a real impact in eye health.

👉 Learn more and register your interest here:

https://forms.gle/5iXoEoSAzK7kijQE7

11/08/2025

📰 1/3 of people blind from cataract 'do not feel need' to get surgery in Nepal

Survey reveals biggest barriers to getting cataract surgery, including need, cost and fear

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/cataractNepal

14/07/2025

We don’t know how many children worldwide have problems with their eyesight. The best estimates suggest that globally, almost 450m children need glasses and around 2m are blind.

To learn effectively, children need to be able to see clearly. Children with poor eyesight in low- and middle-income countries are up to five times less likely to be in formal education.

The School Eye Health Rapid Assessment (SEHRA) enables programmes to understand not just the epidemiological data — such as how many children have vision-impairing versus non-vision-impairing conditions — but also what these specific conditions are. More importantly, it categorises them by the types of services that will be required to address them.

Nine SEHRAs have now been completed globally, with some wide-ranging impacts, including guiding national strategies and policy

Find out more about this methodology and what it's achieving 👉 https://bit.ly/4kDAygc

09/07/2025

📣 There are just over two weeks left to apply for funding to join the world-renowned Global Eye Health short course run by the International Centre for Eye Health, part of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

👁️ The four-day online course runs in November. It's for eye health leaders, ophthalmologists, optometrists, ophthalmic nurses and programme managers interested in strategies to tackle the huge unmet need in eye health, with an emphasis on low and middle-income settings.

Here's how you can apply for funding through the Peek Vision Foundation's Karen Sparrow Scholarship:

💻 Register for the short course through LSHTM: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/courses/short-courses/eye-health
📩 Once you receive your confirmation email from LSHTM, forward this to scholarships@peekvision.org stating you wish to be considered for a scholarship
📅 The closing date for scholarship applications is 25th July 2025

Full details about the scholarship are on our website: https://peekvision.org/about/foundation/karen-sparrow-scholarship/

Photo: Vision screening in a school in Kenya using Peek. Credit: Rolex/Joan Bardeletti

01/07/2025

👨🏾‍🔬 “The key to successful policy change was good quality research within the local context, with all actors working together”

How do public health stakeholders successfully encourage policy change?

Find out with this example from ICEH, interviewing key actors in the process for translating child eye health research into national policy in Tanzania.

Read here 👉 https://bit.ly/4nxOfQw

03/06/2025

No countries on track to reach eREC target by 2030, study finds

New research gives estimates for the
World Health Organization (WHO) target in 76 countries over the last two decades, and models through to 2030

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3Zd9yw2

Photo credit © Melvin Rodriguez

30/05/2025

🌍 Applications now open for ICEH's world-renowned short course in Global Eye Health

Learn from global experts in eye health and learn how to plan an evaluate programmes

📅 3-6th November 2025

🖥️ Online (09:30 - 14:00 GMT)

Find out more and apply 👉 https://bit.ly/3Z48zOQ

28/05/2025

📰 People willing to procure next pair of glasses after experiencing them once, study finds

A study in India has investigated how willing people are to obtain their next pair of glasses, either for free or a price

Read about the findings here 👉 https://bit.ly/4kHZTWL

Photo credit © Shrikant Ayyangar, Mission for Vision

24/04/2025

We're excited to join VISION 2020/IAPB and the global eye health field in Kathmandu next week!!!

We're halfway to 2030 In Sight and working together has never been more important