We are delighted to announce that we have been designated a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Eye Care and Vision! 🎉 Having worked together closely for many years we are excited to formalise our partnership. Find out about the activities👇 iceh.lshtm.ac.uk/who-collabor...

🎂 The Tropical Data partnership has turned 10! For a decade, Tropical Data has worked with 55 countries to deliver high-quality, standardised prevalence surveys for trachoma and other neglected tropical diseases #PublicHealth Read the 10-year story 🔽 storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1a8d...

"Implementing digital health and AI for programme screening, diagnosis, and treatment in global eye health" Eye health a top 10 research priority for data science and AI globally, rising to #3 in the rankings among LMIC experts! 👀 Scoring highly on "potential for translation and implementation".

1 in 2 people facing #cataract blindness need access to surgery @thehindu.com reports on ICEH-led research prompting calls from #WHO to improve global cataract care as findings suggest global target of 30% increase in surgery coverage by 2030 'unlikely to be met'. www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/hea...

📢 New eCSC paper out in @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 👁️ Progress towards the 2030 global target is lagging, more investment in quality cataract services is needed urgently. 👁️ Launched at same time as @who.int guidance on cataract care quality: iris.who.int/handle/10665...

📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online! Strengthening indicators and rapid survey methods for monitoring eye health within universal health coverage / Ian McCormick 🔓 doi.org/10.17037/PUB... @ianmccormick.bsky.social

📢 Two webinars to launch new @who.int cataract surgery quality guidance & new global eCSC estimates in upcoming @lancetgh.bsky.social paper. How can we accelerate the delivery of high-quality surgery to increase eCSC by 30 percentage points by 2030? @iceh-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social

Bolivia also completed a new door-to-door population-based RAAB survey in 2025, around a decade after their first RAAB. Hope to see some positive change in eye health over time. #EyeSky

📢 @iceh-lshtm.bsky.social have obtained funding support for the 2026-27 MSc Public Health for Eye Care course fees and also cover flights/visas for FIVE eye health professionals from LMIC Commonwealth countries. Deadline to apply (to both MSc & CSSS): 16:00 (GMT) Tuesday 9 December 2025 #EyeSky

Hopefully this gets funding to scale up to a nationally representative survey. Not sure about the reported finding of 36% undiagnosed glaucoma in the sample 50+ in the article?? 🤔

A simple pair of glasses transformed Nguyen’s life; sharpening her vision, boosting her confidence, and bringing joy to everyday moments. On #WorldSightDay, her story is a reminder that basic eye care isn’t a luxury, it is a fundamental right 👉 bit.ly/4odWmRP

This sounds promising on all fronts, including surveys. “RETFound-Green is also highly portable…we successfully ran the model on a smartphone—highlighting its potential for low-resource settings” #EyeSky #OphthoSky

this is a really good article and makes very important points very clearly

If you’re in the UK consider signing this petition. Something must be done to get aid into Gaza.

These are some ambitious 10-year targets for #primarycare #optometry in England. Scotland - a smaller and more uniform health system - has been at this for 20 years, with decent govt funding committed to optometry at certain points, and still has a way to go. Aim high I guess!

LSHTM's Director writes to UK Government about Gaza public health catastrophe www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Read my @iceh-lshtm.bsky.social colleagues Charles and Elliott here summarising some of the opportunities and challenges of developing oculomics for patient benefit in lower resource health care settings. 👇

Updated analysis of effective refractive error coverage (eREC) worldwide published in @lancetgh.bsky.social today.

🔗 New tool alert: The DOI Accessibility Enhancer browser extension is now available for Chrome and Firefox! It improves screen reader usability without changing how DOIs behave for sighted users. Learn more: https://doi.org/10.64000/pp4rw-mtv44 #Accessibility #OpenInfrastructure

Congratulations to our colleagues in Zambia for publishing their work on: "Assessing trachoma elimination progress in districts with persistent trachoma, Western Province, Zambia". pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40285493/ @taskforce.bsky.social @sightsavers.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social

Fabulous first day of #ISGEO2025 at Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, Kathmandu capped off by @iceh-lshtm.bsky.social Prof GV’s Elizabeth Cass Lecture. #eyesky

“The current system for 'ensuring' drivers meet the visual legal standards is ineffective, unsafe and unfit to meet the needs of society…” Always found it difficult to discuss potential loss of independence with older drivers but something should change. Interested to see what UK govt does here.

Enjoyed collaborating with colleagues from CBM, Fred Hollows and Sightsavers to put together a short post on measuring #disability in RAAB.👇 More collaboration to come on this important topic now @islaymactaggart.bsky.social is back at her desk! #OphthoSky

100s of millions of people live without reading glasses, affecting quality of life & costing the economy🌏 Matthew Burton & Andrew Bastawrous discuss new trials in India & Kenya measuring impact of near #vision glasses. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

New paper out today with some very cool results - Gene therapy in children with AIPL1-associated severe retinal dystrophy…improved visual acuity and functional vision and evidence of some protection against progressive retinal degeneration, without serious adverse effects. #EyeSky #OphthoSky

How many people use the report junk option in outlook for the masses of “submit your valuable cataract access study to our chemistry journal” type emails? Do you report every junk email, some, or none (ie just delete)? Does it make any difference? What if we all did it all the time? #AcademicSky

Eye health surveys are usually done in geopolitical admin areas. Here, a sampling area was customised to the catchment area of Shroff's high-volume secondary eye hospital in UP, India. Retina screening coverage among diabetics was <10%. DR service strengthening in the works. #OphthoSky #EyeSky

Key motivation for the RAAB survey repository was removing some technical and motivational barriers to data sharing. All open data and reports are now assigned a DOI and usage licence and data owners can be acknowledged correctly. We continue to work to align with FAIR principles. #OphthoSky #EyeSky

Lovely dog walking weather this morning! First cold one of the season.

I’m probably late to this, but now we all have a nice new distraction on our phones here did you know the iPhone has a screen distance warning? It’s automatically enabled for children under 13 in family groups. Do other devices have this option? Worth flagging to parents I think. #EyeSky #myopia

Hi! I added you to an #EyeSky Starter pack - (and I'm Epi also as well as an Ophthalmologist 👋) but if you have a better idea for a Starter Pack let me know! go.bsky.app/5U7Acxo

I haven’t seen a health and health inequalities starter pack so have had a go here ⬇️⬇️ I am sure there are loads more people I could add so do let me know if you would like me to add you have suggestions go.bsky.app/H8D78hv

Has anyone tried an eye health Starter Pack yet that I’m missing? My interest is public health/ epi research but I’m guessing that might be bit niche for now and will take whatever is going! #OphthoSky #ophthalmology #optometry #eyehealth

An attempt to create a Starter Pack of everyone @lshtm.bsky.social currently here - probably of interest to a broad range of people interested in infectious diseases, epidemiology, stats, global health etc go.bsky.app/R9P96qR

Aurora Borealis in Yorkshire last night. No steamed hams involved.