Dear Clare
Many congrats – this looks really great!
I thought you might like to know about the Global Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition. It was launched at LSHTM in May this year as it was initiated by Prof Don Bundy (ex World Bank, now at LSHTM) . It is supported by UNESCO, the World Bank and others agencies. The school health bit includes eye and vision and we have been asked to form a small group who will write something for the website, draft research/policy working papers, and write a chapter for the 4th Edition of the World Banks Priority Conditions. Gordon Brown made a very good launch speech.
I thought it would be good for you to know about it, but quite what that might mean I am not sure!! Maybe as time goes by things will become a bit clearer……May provide a forum for you to access funding to evaluate your diet / nutrition / eye health related activities?
The initial focus is to reinstate school meals – many millions of children went hungry during COVID because they missed out on school lunches.
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/global-research-consortium-sch...
Gordon Brown
https://educationcommission.org/updates/global-research-consortium-for-s...
Clare
CHIFA Profile: Clare 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
