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Join more than 40,000 people from 188 countries and territories who have enrolled in our open online courses.
Learn together with eye health professionals from different cadres, countries and contexts on our courses.
The following courses are available on-demand, and can be accessed anytime. This means you can take the course at your own pace. Engage with other learners using the comments and discussion section.
Topic-Specific Courses
Glaucoma: A Public Health Approach to Preventing Blindness
Retinopathy of Prematurity: Practical Approaches to Prevent Blindness
Diabetic Eye Disease: Building Capacity To Prevent Blindness
***Please note that the courses below are currently under redevelopment. They will be available again in 2026. Thank you for your patience***
Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services
Eliminating Trachoma
Ophthalmic Epidemiology Courses
***Please note that the courses below are currently under redevelopment. They will be available again in early 2026. Thank you for your patience***
Ophthalmic Epidemiology 1. Basic Principles
Learn the key features and examine the uses of the main epidemiology study types for eye care. Understand the key concepts of prevalence and incidence, explore the causes and distribution of visual impairment in populations, learn about key epidemiological study designs and assess their strengths and limitations for studying eye disease.
Ophthalmic Epidemiology 2. Application to Eye Disease
Learn the key features, and examine the uses, of epidemiology for eye care. Critically analyse the different features of the main epidemiological study designs and discover how they are used to address different research questions in eye health.
Research Skills
Research Skills for Eye Health
This 16-week course aims to equip eye health professionals with the skills in epidemiological principles, quantative and qualitative data collection and analysis, ethics, health economics and more, with the goal of carrying out ophthalmic research.
The course has closed for 2025 and will run again in 2026. Please click here to register your interest for the next round.
Student Map
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Open education resources
- LEARN: Improve your eye health practice by participating in one of our Open courses and applying the learning.
- SHARE: Support eye health teaching and learning beyond the course by downloading the OER materials and sharing them with colleagues or the team.
- TEACH: Include the course content in local residency training or as part lifelong learning for professionals, or support our courses as a facilitator*
- IMPROVE: Advocate for life-long learning in your setting, create and contribute to the OER materials, send us feedback or adapt and re-use the OER in local training.
* requires public health and ophthalmic training
Acknowledgements
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