Leveraging Research and Partnership to Achieve Universal Eye Health

My Session Status

When:

13:30, الأحد 16 يونيو 2019 (1 hour 30 minutes)

Breaks:

Break 03:00 مساءً to 03:45 مساءً (45 minutes)

Where:

Québec City Convention Centre - Room 205 BC | Salle 205 BC

Theme:

Public Health and Global Ophthalmology

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Apply research to the development of global health programs in eye care
Leverage partnership and outreach to scale up for universal eye health
Describe burden of blindness and barrier to access for eye health in Afghans and Syrians

CANMEDS ROLES: Leader, Health Advocate

Vivian Yin MD, MPH

Moderator

Suzanne S. Gilbert PhD, MPH

Participant

Marie-Josée Aubin

Moderator

Chandra Sankurathri MD

Participant

Sub Sessions

Introduction

13:30 - 13:35 | 5 minutes

Unmet eye care needs among a Syrian paediatric refugee population

13:35 - 13:43 | 8 minutes

Public Health and Global Ophthalmology

Authors: Tarek A. Bin Yameen, Myrna LichterAuthor Disclosure Block: T.A. Bin Yameen: None. M. Lichter: None. Abstract Body: Purpose: There is a lack of data on vision problems in a paediatric refugee population in Canada. Given the recent arrival of 40,000 Syrian refugees, we performed a cross-sectional, descriptive study to assess the prevalence of visual impairment and unmet eye care needs of Syrian refugee ch...