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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & UCL
Professor focusing on childhood blindness and global eye health.
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Information on Prof. Clare Gilbert
Professor Clare Gilbert is Professor of International Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, internationally recognised for research and programmes to prevent blindness in children and to strengthen eye-health systems in low- and middle-income countries.
Education & career: UK-trained ophthalmologist who joined the International Centre for Eye Health in 1990 and LSHTM in 2002, co-directing ICEH between 2002 and 2020 and holding longstanding WHO and IAPB advisory roles.
Research focus: Childhood blindness epidemiology, retinopathy of prematurity, refractive error and school eye-health, and strategies integrated into national programmes and VISION 2020 initiatives.
Impact & leadership: Led national surveys and multi-country implementation projects, produced widely used guidelines and has an extensive peer-reviewed publication record in paediatric and public-health ophthalmology.
Teaching & mentorship: Leads LSHTM's MSc/short-course teaching in public-health ophthalmology and supervises clinical and non-clinical researchers.
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