Research activities
Caption: Enumerators explaining the survey of visual impairment and blindness to a participant in Sir Lanka.
Our research is wide in scope
It includes basic science, observational studies, clinical trials, health economics and health systems research. Studies are local or multi-country and global in scope. Studies involve all age groups, include infectious and non-communicable eye diseases and entail primary research as well as systematic reviews by the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group, which is based at ICEH. To share our research findings widely, we hold dissemination workshops and write user-friendly reports for donors and other audiences. We also publish in peer-reviewed journals and present at scientific meetings.
Find out more about our recent research activities
Assessing needs in populations
- Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness
- Key informant method
- Incidence of eye disease
- Prevalence and causes of visual impairment
- Bangladesh national survey (1999-2000)
- Pakistan national survey (2002-2003)
- Nigeria national survey (2005-2007)
- Sri Lanka national survey (2013-2014)
- Poverty and blindness
Technology for eye care
Impact of blindness and sight restoration
- Cataract impact study
- Economic
Health systems research
- Health systems research
- Quality of care
- Sustainability in government and faith-based eye health systems in Tanzania
- Eye health systems assessment
- Integration of eye care for children services for mothers and children in Tanzania
- Patent medicine vendors and their role in eye care in Nigeria
- Primary eye care
- Quality of eye care
Specific eye diseases
- Cataract in adults
- Cataract case mix study
- Cataract migration study
- Costs of cataract surgery
- Pre-senile cataract in India – birth cohort study
- Cataract and mortality
- Corneal infection
- Diabetic retinopathy
- Cost effectiveness
- Supporting initiatives in India
- Glaucoma
- In Africa
- In Asia
- HIV, aging and the eye
- Ocular morbidity
- Ocular surface squamous neoplasia in Kenya
- Trachoma
Childhood eye diseases
- Assessing the causes of blindness in children
- Cataract in children
- Congenital eye anomalies
- Refractive errors and low vision
- Retinopathy of prematurity