Global health: From third world to working abroad

This unique evening event will explore various aspects of global ophthalmology, and blindness prevention in low and middle income settings. Speakers will describe and detail novel and innovative ways of teaching eye surgery in efforts to tackle avoidable blindness. 

Delegates will be updated on; frontline screening of patients in villages using incredibly innovative smartphone technology, the use of simulation-based surgical education of eye surgeons, and high-volume health care models. There will also be detailed experiences from throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and China.  

Topics include:

• How innovative smartphone technology (portable eye examination kit – PEEK) is used in low and middle income settings to screen, geo-tag, and follow up patients with blindness or potentially blinding conditions 
• Illustrate the Moorfields – Korle Bu (Ghana) partnership in surgical training 
• An overview of simulation-based surgical education initiatives in the UK, China, and sub-Saharan Africa