Sydney, Australia, 12 April 2018: An update to the Brien Holden Vision Institute Myopia Calculator has added features that include an ‘ethnicity’ option and now made it available in Mandarin and Spanish.
Port au Prince, Haiti, April 13, 2018: Today we celebrate the momentous occasion of opening the first optometry school in Haiti. The initial 19 students are the pioneers of their profession for Haiti...
Mzuzu, Malawi, 6 April 2018: A follow up of Malawi's first optometry graduates has yielded important insights about the newly established optometry degree program at Mzuzu University.
London, United Kingdom, 22 March 2018: Delegates at a recent House of Commons UK event have called for urgent resources to improve access to affordable eye care worldwide.
Sydney, Australia, 20 March 2018: The federal member for Kingsford Smith, Matt Thistlethwaite MP, today launched a children’s book, ‘The Flying Optometrist’, which captures the adventures of an optometrist travelling to remote Australia
Mali, Africa, 1 March 2018: Drissa Coulibaly is one of a kind. He is one of the initial graduating Optometric Technicians from the first intake of students enrolled in the inaugural school of optometry at the Institut Ophtalmologique Tropical d'Afrique in Mali...
New York, U.S., 22 February 2018: The State University of New York (SUNY) College of Optometry has announced that Professor Kovin Naidoo will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
Gauteng, South Africa, 8 February, 2018: Today marks the celebration of increased eye health services in Gauteng, already providing eye care for nearly half a million people in the last four years.
Sydney, Australia, 30 January 2018: The Global Board of Optometry Giving Sight announced today that it will merge its operations into the Brien Holden Vision Institute Foundation.
A new interactive, online, myopia management course is available to optometrists in USA and Canada and begins on March 21, 2018.