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Prevent Blindness launches professional networking forum
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Prevent Blindness debuted its new virtual forum, the Focus Initiative, at the organization’s 2016 Focus on Eye Health National Summit.
The Focus Initiative is a network designed to encourage professionals working in vision and public health to share resources such as vision research, research grant opportunities, professional recognition, training materials, webinars, events and other topics, according to a press release from Prevent Blindness.
“By bringing together professionals to share ideas and resources, we can effectively create strategies to save sight and protect healthy vision for people at all stages of life,” Hugh R. Parry, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness, said in the release. “The Focus Initiative will provide professionals with immediate access to the latest information, tools and programs from some of the most respected names and institutions across the country.”
The first webinar will be held on Sept. 20, to coincide with the release of the Public Health Approaches to Reduce Vision Impairment and Promote Eye Health consensus study from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). Registration will open in the upcoming weeks, according to the release.
The speakers scheduled to represent the NASEM Consensus Study Committee include: Steven Teutsch, MD, MPH (study chair), from the University of California, Los Angeles’s Fielding School of Public Health; Peter Jacobson, JD, MPH, from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health; Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, from the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine; and Lori Grover, OD, PhD.
A dedicated LinkedIn group for those interested in participating in the Focus Initiative is available at www.preventblindness.org/linkedin.