🎂 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 🔽
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"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'.
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Modelled eCSC6/18 among people aged 50 years and older globally and by WHO region in 2000–30. Figure from eCSC publication with seven plots, one for each WHO region and one global. Each plot shows predicted trend lines for eCSC between 2000 and 2030 in men (blue) and women (red). There are no trend lines for the European region. All WHO regional plots also show empirical eCSC estimates per year as blue dots.
📢 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...
Image promoting a PhD thesis from the Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (ITD) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, image is in two shades of green.
📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!
Strengthening indicators and rapid survey methods for monitoring eye health within universal health coverage / Ian McCormick
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@ianmccormick.bsky.social
Please add @iceh-lshtm.bsky.social to the list!
📢 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?? 🤔
Graphic showing Nguyen, a factory worker, sitting at a sewing machine and smiling. Text reads: “Nguyen, a factory worker with over two decades on the sewing line, found even routine tasks challenging as her eyesight began to deteriorate.”
Graphic with orange background and text: “Nguyen’s life changed with a simple pair of eyeglasses. Clear vision transforms both work and daily life. It’s not just about being able to see. It’s about dignity.” Includes a small circular photo of Nguyen smiling while wearing glasses.
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
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
Hi @katribertram.bsky.social and @filawless.bsky.social I was listening in at the Disability Inclusion Group meeting today on behalf of the RAAB team at ICEH. 👏 Great to see some others on Bluesky! @islaymactaggart.bsky.social will be keen to learn more about the Group plans.
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
A conference room. Audience members heads in the foreground. The speaker is on the right, behind a lectern, with one arm raised towards a projector screen showing a slide with a bar chart.
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
Sarojni Devi threading a needle after receiving near vision glasses. Credit: Dr Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital.
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.
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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
Separately, @microsoft.com why do I have to tap the screen SIX times to report one junk email in the iOS app?? That’s nuts ux. If I wasn’t holding a sleeping baby I would never be bothered!
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
