Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Child eye health
- Low vision, vision impairment and blindness
- Eye health education
- Uncorrected refractive error
Public outreach & key achievements
- Zanzibar Arts for Children's Eyesight, 2020
- Healthy Eyes, Happy Child - impact of spectacle correction among South African children, 2020
- Willingness to pay for children's public health sector spectacles in Nigeria.
- 2019 Vision Champion: Children as agents of change- A peer-delivered eye health education strategy roll-out in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya
- Integrated school eye health programme in Zanzibar
- Recipient of Department for Economy, Global Challenge of Research Fund pilot research grant (2019)
- Recipient of USAID Child Blindness Prevention research grant, 2017
Research students
| PhD Title | The STAGE study (Severity, Treatment and Acceptance of Glaucoma thErapy) in Africa. |
| Country | Nigeria |
| PhD Title | SWISH (See Well to Stay in School: Randomised Trial of Spectacle Distribution to Secondary School Children with Myopia to Increase Academic High School Attendance Rate in Rural Communities) |
| Country | China |
| PhD Title | Establishing Diabetic Retinopathy Screening at Primary Level in Rural and Urban China |
| Country | China |
Alumni: Where are they now