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The Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, founded by Alfred Sommer, M.D., M.H.S.,is a leader in global and domestic research on blindness prevention and the only World Health Organization collaborating center in the United States. Our center guides research-based programmatic activities and educates future leaders to alleviate unnecessary blindness worldwide
Our faculty includes ophthalmologists, epidemiologists, statisticians, programmers, project coordinators and administrative personnel. Together, our mission is to prevent avoidable visual disability and blindness around the globe by conducting valuable research, using sound public health policies and programs, and training the next generation of leaders in public health ophthalmology.
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EVENT: WORLD SIGHT DAY 2018
World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness held on the first Thursday of October (this year it is on October 11) to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. In honor of World Sight Day, Wilmer is raising funds to support the Dana Center Gift Fund. Please join us at our various events to support this day. Learn about Wilmer's World Sight Day 2018 events.
Many were on hand to celebrate the program's milestone of 5,000 free pairs of glasses to students in Baltimore City public schools. Learn more.
Prevent Blindness created the Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health to recognize an individual, team, or organization that has made significant contributions to the advancement of public health related to vision and eye health at the community, state, national, and/or international level. The team was selected for the award for their work investigating and addressing vision-related problems in high-poverty schools. Read more.
Megan Collins, M.D., and Vision for Baltimore team members discuss the program and its impact. Watch the video.
The program, which began as a result of the Baltimore Reading and Eye Disease study, is now being established in Chicago. Megan Collins, M.D., pediatric ophthalmologist and Dana Center researcher, and Robert Slavin, Ph.D., director of Hopkins’ Center for Research and Reform in Education, discuss the program's amazing progress. Read more.
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