Viney Nangia

Chair(s): Joao Furtado (Brazil); Mingguang He (Australia); Viney Nangia (India);

WHO priorities to 2030 and practical steps
Stuart Keel
Global and country level burden of vision impairment and risk factors
Rupert Bourne (United Kingdom)
Communicating population data to governments to effect change
Ningli Wang (People's Republic of China)
Communicating population data to the NGO sector to support programmes
Van C. Lansingh (Mexico)
Discussion/ Q&A
TBA

Topic: Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Chair(s): Ningli Wang (People's Republic of China); Robert Casson (Australia);

Diabetic retinopathy is the only cause of blindness to be increasing over the last 3 decades- integrated approaches to reverse this trend
Tunde Peto (Ireland)
How the COVID pandemic has altered our approach to measuring and delivering eyecare at the population level: the experience from India
Viney Nangia (India)
The effect of climate change on Ophthalmic Epidemiology
Robert Casson (Australia)
Surveying a Population´s Eye Health (without a survey)
David Rein
Discussion/Q&A
TBA

Topic: Ophthalmic Epidemiology