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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. If you have any questions about our courses please email icehcourses@lshtm.ac.uk
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 next course will run September 2026 to January 2027. Please click here to register your interest for the next round.
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
Ophthalmic Epidemiology Courses
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.
Other Courses
***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
Eliminating Trachoma
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