Thanks Clare (Hanbury),
I have sent the link to our Masters director, suggesting that an evaluation would make a lovely MSc summer project. They start planning towards the end of the year.
Clare Gilbert
CHIFA ProfileClare Gilbert co-Directs the International Centre for Eye Health with Professor Allen Foster. The Centre is a WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Blindness, and is based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. The aim is to prevent blindness, particularly in low and middle income countries. The Centre does this in two broad ways: firstly by undertaking research, to provide the evidence needed by planners and managers so they can plan programmes for the prevention of blindness that are tailored to the needs of communities, and secondly, through education, including a one year MSc in Community Eye Health in London and support for Community Eye Health in Southern Africa. The Centre produces other educational materials and "links" eye departments in the UK with training institutions in Africa, for capacity building and skills transfers. The Centre also manages up to 30 one week courses on Vision2020 in all regions of the world, and produces the Community Eye Health Journal which goes free of charge, four times a year to over 20,000 eyecare professionals in more than 150 countries (www.cehjournal.org). Clare has been a Medical Advisor to Sightsavers International since 1995.
Clare.Gilbert AT lshtm.ac.uk
