Community Eye Health Journal news

Last issue of 2009

Due to budgetary constraints, we regret that this is the final issue of The Community Eye Health Journal in 2009, making a total of three rather than four issues. We hope that our funding situation will improve and that we will be able to resume our usual publication schedule in 2010. We also welcome donations from readers who would like to support the journal and keep it going: please visit www.cehjournal.org/donate to find out how you can help.

Digital video competition

You tube video We are launching an exciting new reader competition: we want to know what the Community Eye Health Journal means to you and how it has changed the way you work. Readers are invited to submit a short digital video clip showing how you use the journal: how it has improved your work, how patients have benefited, or how you use it to teach others. First prize is Clinical Ophthalmology by J Kanski Clinical Ophthalmology by J Kanski (kindly donated by Elsevier), worth £128. The winning clips will be published on the Community Eye Health Journal website and in the next edition of the journal update CD. In order to qualify, send your digital video on CD or DVD, or upload it onto YouTube (www.youtube.com) and send us the link by email. Please use only video file formats accepted by YouTube and include your name, contact details, and a short description of the video in your package or email. Deadline: 1 August 2010. Maximum length: Two minutes. Patient permission: If your video shows any patients, you must get their written permission and include this in your entry. Send to: The Community Eye Health Journal, International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK, or email editor@cehjournal.org More information: www.cehjournal.org/competition

Did you know?

The Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) provides not-for-profit institutions in low- and middle-income countries with free or very low cost access to biomedical and social science journals. All staff members and students at the qualifying institutions are entitled to access the journals. To learn more and register your institution, visit www.who.int/hinari/en

Meetings

World Ophthalmology Congress, Berlin, 5–9 June 2010. Visit www.woc2010.org

XXI Congress of the International Society Geographical and Epidemiological Ophthalmology (ISGEO), Berlin, 3–4 June 2010. Attendees must be registered for the World Ophthalmology Congress. Visit https://www.iceh.org.uk/x/ngoq

World Congress on Refractive Error, Durban, 20–22 September and Sixth World Conference on Optometric Education, Durban, 22–24 September 2010. Abstract submissions for both close 1 March 2010. Visit www.icee2010.co.za

Courses

International Centre for Eye Health, UK

Application forms for all courses are available from The Registry, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP, UK. Tel: +44 207 299 4646. For more information about all ICEH courses, email Elizabeth Mercer: elizabeth.mercer@Lshtm.ac.uk

MSc Community Eye Health, 27 September 2010 to 16 September 2011 (also available on a part-time basis over two years). Cost: UK £15,150 (overseas students) or UK £4,815 (home and EU students)

Diploma Course in Community Eye Health, 17 February to 21 May 2010. Cost: UK £7,040 (overseas students) or UK £2,156 (home and EU students) Email: registry@Lshtm.ac.uk or MScCEH@Lshtm.ac.uk or visit www.lshtm.ac.uk/courses

Planning for VISION 2020, 12–16 July 2010. Cost: UK £735.
Tropical Ophthalmology, 29–31 March 2010. Cost: UK £490.
Public health planning for hearing impairment, 12–16 July 2010. Cost: UK £750.
Email: shortcourses@Lshtm.ac.uk or visit www.iceh.org.uk

Community Eye Health Institute, South Africa

All courses cost ZA R2,500 (approximately US $350). Contact Aayesha Patel, Community Eye Health Institute, University of Cape Town, Private Bag 3, RONDEBOSCH, 7700, South Africa, Tel +27 21 406 6215. Email: aayesha.patel@uct.ac.za or visit www.cehi.uct.ac.za

Community eye health for ophthalmology registrars, 13–15 April
Training of trainers for primary eye care, 31 May to 4 June 2010 and 25–29 October 2010 (two courses)
Project management for Vision 2020, 26–30 July 2010
Monitoring and evaluation for Vision 2020, 23–27 August 2010
Leadership and management for Vision 2020, 20–23 September 2010

Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology, Tanzania

All courses paid for by various sponsors. Contact Genes Mng’anya, Good Samaritan Foundation, PO Box 2254, Moshi, Tanzania, Tel +255 27 275 3547. Email: genes@ kcco.net or visit www.kcco.net

Gender and blindness: review of the evidence and identifying research needs, 11–13 March 2010
Working with management to get the support you need to achieve VISION 2020 goals: a course for ophthalmologists, 19–23
April 2010
Strengthening the capacity of national prevention of blindness coordinators, 10–14 May 2010
Addressing the challenges of childhood cataract in Africa, 20–23 September 2010 (Nigeria)