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Prof Allen Foster

Professor of International Eye Health

United Kingdom

Previous Director of International Centre for Eye Health and International Centre for Evidence in Disability.

Now mentorship and support for colleagues, in ICEH and ICED.

Involved in Education activities including: Courses on International Eye Health and VISION 2020 LINKS programme.

Board Member of Peek Foundation.

Involved with the WHO NTD programme.

Affiliations

Department of Clinical Research
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Teaching

Course Organiser for short course on International Eye Health.

Tutor on Masters in PHEC.

Individual lectures, on Masters PHEC, NTD module and DTMH.

Advice and support Masters students in planning their summer dissertations.

Exam marker for all PHEC summer dissertations.

Research

International Eye Health including the control of blinding eye diseases and eye diseases of children.

Research Area
Disease control
Global Health
Epidemiology
Disease and Health Conditions
Blindness
Disability
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Trachoma
Eye health
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)
Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Mortality during 6 years of follow-up in relation to visual impairment and eye disease: results from a population-based cohort study of people aged 50 years and above in Nakuru, Kenya.
KUPER, H; Mathenge, W; MACLEOD, D; FOSTER, A; Gichangi, M; RONO, H; WING, K; WEISS, HA; BASTAWROUS, A; BURTON, M;
2019
BMJ open
Incidence of Visually Impairing Cataracts Among Older Adults in Kenya.
BASTAWROUS, A; Mathenge, W; Nkurikiye, J; WING, K; RONO, H; Gichangi, M; WEISS, HA; MACLEOD, D; FOSTER, A; BURTON, M; KUPER, H;
2019
JAMA network open
Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness for health service planning.
MACTAGGART, I; Wallace, S; RAMKE, J; BURTON, M; BASTAWROUS, A; Limburg, H; Qureshi, MB; FOSTER, A; KUPER, H;
2018
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the Global Trachoma Mapping Project.
Solomon, AW; Willis, R; Pavluck, AL; Alemayehu, W; Bakhtiari, A; Bovill, S; Chu, BK; Courtright, P; Dejene, M; Downs, P; FLUECKIGER, RM; Haddad, D; Hooper, PJ; Kalua, K; Kebede, B; Kello, AB; Macleod, CK; McCullagh, S; Millar, T; Mpyet, C; Ngondi, J; Nwobi, B; Olobio, N; Onyebuchi, U; Rotondo, LA; ... For The Global Trachoma Mapping Project,
2018
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Changing patterns of cataract services in North-West Nigeria: 2005-2016.
Muhammad, N; Adamu, MD; Caleb, M; Maishanu, NM; Jabo, AM; Rabiu, MM; BASCARAN, C; Isiyaku, S; FOSTER, A;
2017
PloS one
Six-Year Incidence of Blindness and Visual Impairment in Kenya: The Nakuru Eye Disease Cohort Study.
BASTAWROUS, A; Mathenge, W; WING, K; RONO, H; Gichangi, M; WEISS, HA; MACLEOD, D; FOSTER, A; BURTON, MJ; KUPER, H;
2016
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
The Global Trachoma Mapping Project: Methodology of a 34-Country Population-Based Study.
SOLOMON, AW; Pavluck, AL; Courtright, P; Aboe, A; Adamu, L; Alemayehu, W; Alemu, M; ALEXANDER, ND E; Kello, AB; Bero, B; BROOKER, SJ; Chu, BK; Dejene, M; Emerson, PM; FLUECKIGER, RM; Gadisa, S; Gass, K; Gebre, T; Habtamu, Z; Harvey, E; Haslam, D; King, JD; Mesurier, RL; Lewallen, S; Lietman, TM; ... FOSTER, A.
2015
Ophthalmic epidemiology
Assessing the prevalence of sensory and motor impairments in childhood in Bangladesh using key informants.
MURTHY, GV S; MACTAGGART, I; Mohammad, M; Islam, J; Noe, C; Khan, AI; FOSTER, A; Bangladesh KIM Study Group,;
2014
Archives of disease in childhood
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