Nearly three months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern, we are continuing to feel the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Our partners and colleagues, and those working in the eye health community in general, are very much in our thoughts at this time…
The Community Eye Health Journal is now available via a Mobile App!
Free access to articles in community eye health: ophthalmology, optometry, eye nursing and eye care delivery
The Community Eye Health Journal (CEHJ) is now available as an app for smartphones and tablets. The CEHJ app can be downloaded…
Top: Patients waiting to be screened. We had 200-300 patient arrive for a 4 hour screening event in rural Georgia
World Sight Day Screening – We partnered with a local Lions Club in Cordele, a rural part of Georgia with limited access to healthcare, to hold a screening event. We…
Esmael Habtamu Ali with patient during Trachoma field work in Ethiopia
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Esmael Habtamu Ali PhD, Co-Lead Educator
Why Trachoma?
My country, Ethiopia, has amongst the highest levels of avoidable blindness in the world. Cataract, corneal…
School children in India
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Dr Priya Morjaria, Co-Lead Educator
For the past 3 years, I have been working on my PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The focus of my work…
ICEH is proud to support the Peek Vision project which helps to identify people with eyesight problems and connect them to local health workers using smartphone-based technology. Find out more about Peek.
