Eyes on Sumba: Empowering Eye Health in Rural Indonesia
ANZEF Grant Round 2024 Recipient Eyes on Sumba: Empowering Eye Health in Rural Indonesia Led by Dr Mark Ellis AM, Foresight Australia – AUD$50,000 Project location: Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia The Sumba Eye Program (SEP), initiated in 2007 and now integrated with Foresight Australia since 2021, is dedicated to mitigating eye health disparities on […]
Slowing the Cone: Arresting keratoconus on the Coast
ANZEF Grant Round 2024 Recipient Slowing the Cone: Arresting keratoconus on the Coast Led by A/Prof Graham Wilson, Rachel Cook, Dr Jason Rodier and Dr Sheng Hong, Gisborne Hospital – AUD$36,100 Project location: Gisborne, Tairawhiti or East Coast, Aotearoa New Zealand Keratoconus is a progressive corneal ectasia which causes irregular astigmatism in teenagers. This results […]
Papua New Guinea Paediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship
ANZEF Grant Round 2024 Recipient Papua New Guinea Paediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship Led by Lead Visionary Dr Kimberley Tan and Dr Cesar Carillo, Sight For All – AUD$41,315 Project location: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea has a population of 10.3 million people and over 40,000 people in PNG are reported to be blind […]
Our Vision Our Way: Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership of the next National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Plan
ANZEF Grant Round 2024 Recipient Our Vision Our Way: Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership of the next National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Plan Led by Lose Fonua, First Nations Eye Health Alliance – AUD$50,000 Project location: Australia The planning for and the provision of quality eye health care services are […]
The economic burden on parents of children who need glasses
ANZEF Grant Round 2024 Recipient The economic burden on parents of children who need glasses Led by Dr Justin Mora – AUD$1,500 Project location: Aotearoa New Zealand This project will support a national study being run by New Zealand Ophthalmologists and orthoptists within public hospitals investigating the economic burden on families when a child is […]
Top End Preschool Vision Screening Pilot: Bridging the Gap in Children’s Eye Health in the NT
ANZEF Grant Round 2024 Recipient Top End Preschool Vision Screening Pilot: Bridging the Gap in Children’s Eye Health in the NT Led by Dr Nishantha Wijesinghe, Royal Darwin Hospital – AUD$50,000 Project location: Northern Territory, Australia In the Northern Territory (NT), there is a significant unmet clinical need: the lack of a children’s vision screening […]
ANZEF Grant 2024 Recipients
Recipients of the 2024 ANZEF Grant Round We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2024 ANZEF Grant Round! This year’s initiative will allocate AUD$228,915 in crucial grant funding to these six significant projects, advancing eye health equity and access in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region: Top End Preschool Vision Screening Pilot: […]