Dr Charles Cleland
Clinical Research Fellow in Training
United Kingdom
I am an ophthalmologist and clinical research fellow based at the International Centre for Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
My research interests are in blindness prevention and the application of new technologies to improve health care.
I am currently undertaking a PhD looking at implementing and evaluating an artificial intelligence system to screen for diabetic retinopathy in Tanzania.
My clinical ophthalmology training has been in London and my most recent appointment was at Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Prior to starting my clinical ophthalmology training in the UK, I was based in Tanzania from 2014-2016.
Affiliations
Department of Clinical Research
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Research
Research Area
Randomised controlled trials
Clinical trials
Health systems
Health technology assessment
Diagnostics
Disease and Health Conditions
Eye health
Country
Tanzania
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
Artificial intelligence for diabetic retinopathy in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review.
2023
BMJ open diabetes research & care
Gender bias within a diabetic retinopathy screening programme in Tanzania.
2022
Eye (London, England)
Retinal imaging to identify target organ damage in older Africans: A pilot study.
2018
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn)
Complications of miliary tuberculosis: low mortality and predictive biomarkers from a UK cohort.
2017
BMC infectious diseases
Diabetic retinopathy in Tanzania: prevalence and risk factors at entry into a regional screening programme.
2016
Tropical medicine & international health
Diabetic retinopathy screening: experiences from northern Tanzania.
2015
The lancet Diabetes & endocrinology