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Learn from experts from different cadres, countries and contexts.

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Learn at your own pace. Study around your schedule.

Practical and relevant

Strengthen your skills and advance your career in eye health.

Featured Course

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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 February to May 2027.

Topic-Specific Courses

 

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Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services

Understand global blindness and how to plan effective eye care.

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Glaucoma: A Public Health Approach to Preventing Blindness

Develop a public health understanding of glaucoma and its lifelong management.

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Retinopathy of Prematurity: Practical Approaches to Prevent Blindness

Explore the strategies to prevent and treat ROP with this online course for health professionals

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Diabetic Eye Disease: Strengthening Services

Understand the challenge and how health professionals can work with people with diabetes.

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Ophthalmic Epidemiology 1: Basic Principles

This course covers the basic principles of epidemiology, its application to eye health and how to assess the measures of disease frequency and association.

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Ophthalmic Epidemiology 2: Application to Eye Disease

You should be familiar with the principles of ‘Ophthalmic Epidemiology 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.

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***

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Eliminating Trachoma

Discover how communities and experts are joining together to end trachoma disease across 30 endemic countries

 

 

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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

Global Impact

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Acknowledgements 

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