Open lecture at LSHTM – Armed conflict and health

Dr Karl Blanchett, and Dr Bayard Roberts present the latest lecture in the Global Health Lecture Series from LSHTM Admission: Free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis Date: Monday 20 October 2014 Time: 5:15 pm –...

World Sight Day 2014 with ICEH & ICED!

World Sight Day 2014 with ICEH & ICED World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. This year’s call to action theme is: No More Avoidable Blindness Staff of  International Centre for Eye Health...

New DVD for Child Cataract Surgery

Video Atlas of Paediatric Cataract Surgery – Available Now   Albrecht Hennig who worked in Lahan, Nepal for many years has made an excellent DVD on cataract surgery for children. The DVD includes assessment and follow up, and has DVD clips and voice over on...

Mapping human resources for eye health in sub-Saharan Africa

A survey of human resources and cataract surgeries in 21 Sub Saharan Africa countries has found that eye health workforce is not growing fast enough to achieve global eye health targets in most countries by 2020. Substantially more targeted investment in human...