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Featured Course
Research Skills for Eye Health
This 16-week course aims to equip eye health professionals with skills in epidemiological principles, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, ethics, health economics and more, to carry out ophthalmic research.
The next course will run September 2026 to January 2027.
Topic-Specific Courses
Glaucoma: A Public Health Approach to Preventing Blindness
Develop a public health understanding of glaucoma and its lifelong management.
Duration
4 Weeks
Retinopathy of Prematurity: Practical Approaches to Prevent Blindness
Explore the strategies to prevent and treat ROP with this online course for health professionals.
Duration
4 Weeks
Diabetic Eye Disease: Strengthening services
Understand the challenge and how health professionals can work with people with diabetes.
Duration
4 Weeks
Ophthalmic Epidemiology 1. Basic Principles
This course covers the basic principles of epidemiology, its application for eye health and how to assess the measures of disease frequency and association.
Duration
3 Weeks
Ophthalmic Epidemiology 2. Application to Eye Disease
You should be familiar with the principles of ‘Ophthalmic Epdiemiology 1’ before starting this second self-directed course.
This course covers application to eye diseases, where we critically examine the main epidemiological methods and their application to major eye diseases.
Duration
4 Weeks
Coming soon
***Please note that the below courses below are currently under redevelopment. They will be available again later in 2026. Thank you for your patience***
Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services
Understand global blindness and how to plan effective eye care.
Eliminating Trachoma
Discover how communities and experts are joining together to end trachoma disease across 30 endemic countries
What our learners say
This is a very useful and
informative course which is
suitable for health
professional from different
backgrounds and specialties.
– Zaher
Diabetic Eye Disease
The course was very
informative with all the
practical approaches and case
studies to help in setting up
your own program.
-Rosemary
Retinopathy of Prematurity
An insightful journey through the care and challenges of glaucoma.
– Dorothee
Glaucoma: a Public Health Approach to Preventing Blindness
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