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Streams Framing the Conversation
Stream 1 – Act | Turning Strategy into Shared Momentum
Explores how leadership, collaboration, and policy translate global frameworks into meaningful progress. Sessions will consider how eye health can be embedded within universal health coverage and integrated service models, linking evidence with the lived realities of ageing, equity, and community-based care.
Stream 2 – Allocate | Investing for Impact and Sustainability
Examines how funding and resources can be mobilised for the greatest effect; through public financing, philanthropy, and partnerships with business and industry. Discussions will focus on shared value, accountability, and confidence that investment delivers measurable outcomes.
Stream 3 – Accelerate | Innovation, Systems, and Cross-Sector Collaboration
Highlights the systems and technologies transforming service delivery. From digital diagnostics and AI to workforce equity and environmental sustainability, sessions will explore how radical collaboration, debate, innovation, and cross-sector learning can drive faster progress.
Stream 4 – 2030 In Sight Action Café
A dynamic space for poster sessions, rapid-fire talks, and showcases drawn from open submissions. The Action Café will spotlight innovation, research, and lived experience from across the IAPB network, and diverse voices shaping the future of eye health.
Stream 4 – 2030 In Sight Action Cafe
Intersectional approaches to advancing equity in eye health
How do we design and deliver eye health programmes to address overlapping forms of exclusion?
Intersectional inequities shape who accesses eye care, who is left behind, and whose voices inform program design. This session brings lived experience and practice-based insight to explore how intersectional approaches can meaningfully strengthen eye health programming.
Rapid Fire Sessions
What is working now across policy, financing and service delivery?
3 Rapid Fire sessions with curated presentations selected from the call for submissions. These are case studies and research that inform real-world decision-making. A visible demonstration of sector momentum ahead of the Global Summit for Eye Health.
Stream 3 – Accelerate | Innovation, Systems, and Cross-Sector Collaboration
Scaling Core Interventions: High Impact Strategies for Cataract and Refractive Error
How do high-impact interventions for effective coverage reach population scale without compromising quality?
This session shares practical strategies for expanding cataract and refractive error services while strengthening system performance. A focus on replicable models that improve effective coverage.
AI and Diagnostics at the Frontline: Rethinking the Point of Care
How can AI and diagnostic tools strengthen frontline care without increasing workload or risk?
This session highlights real-world applications that support faster decision-making and expand access. It also explores the policy, regulatory and system conditions needed to integrate these tools sustainably into routine service delivery.
No One Left Behind: Scaling Telehealth Models
What makes connected care models practical, reliable and scalable?
Explore how telehealth is transforming access for the hardest to reach, ensuring faster referrals and better outcomes for all. This session examines integrated teleconsultation, triage and referral models that improve continuity and reduce delays. A focus on accountable digital integration that strengthens system performance.
Revisiting the care pathway: Lived Experience & the Demand - Continuity Challenge
Where and why do patients fall out of the care pathway?
Led by voices with lived experience, this session explores how people-centered design can increase demand, strengthen trust, continuity and effective coverage. It connects system performance directly to lived outcomes.
Masterclass: Implementation for Scale: Methods That Support Adaptation and Momentum
How can programmes expand reach without compromising quality or control?
This session explores disciplined implementation methods that help teams diagnose bottlenecks, apply data for improvement and manage adaptation during scale up. A practical discussion for leaders responsible for delivering results at scale.
Stream 2 – Allocate | Investing for Impact and Sustainability
Unpacking the Investment Case: Moving from Advocacy to Actual Budgets
What will it take to translate the strong economic case for eye health into national budget allocations?
This session explores how investment decisions are made and how to present finance-ready cases that resonate with ministries of finance and development partners. Practical insight for translating the Value of Vision into budget allocations.
Masterclass: Six Accelerators, One System: Unlocking Investment to Scale Eye Care by 2030
How can targeted investment unlock system-wide gains in access, affordability and quality?
This session explores how the six accelerators (Value of Vision) can strengthen eye care at national scale while demonstrating measurable return on investment. Designed for leaders shaping funding and delivery strategies.
Financing for Eye Health: Maximising Public, Private and Philanthropic Investment
How can countries unlock and align public budgets, private capital and philanthropic funding to accelerate progress?
This session convenes policymakers, development partners, investors and industry leaders to examine financing approaches and partnership models that reduce risk, expand scale and improve sight. Through country experience, it explores how diversified financing can move eye health from project-based funding to sustained national investment.
Investing in Leadership: Strengthening System Capability
What kind of leadership investment enables sustainable system change?
This session examines how can we strengthen sector capability and empower emerging leaders as a strategic lever for performance and accountability. It provides a structured space for Young Systems Leaders and next-generation voices to imagine, define and share the skills, authority, and conditions needed to lead effectively.
Climate and Crisis Pressures: Building Resilient Eye Health Systems
If a crisis hit tomorrow, what would we wish we had built three years ago?
This session uses real-world cases to stress-test eye health systems under climate and crisis pressures. It will challenge participants to think differently about how resilience is designed and financed and will invite reflection on where current funding and programme models may unintentionally leave systems fragile.
Honest Conversations on the Human Capital: Equity, Efficiency and the Future of Care
How should countries balance equity, efficiency and workforce sustainability?
This dialogue explores trade-offs between specialist and community roles, prevention and long-term care, and technology and human capacity. Practical insight for policymakers and programme leaders shaping national workforce strategies.
Stream 1 – Act | Turning Strategy into Shared Momentum
WHO Global Research Agenda for Eye Health: Evidence for Action
What are the high priority research questions that if answered will support evidence-shaped action in to advance Global Eye Health?
This session will be the first public presentation of the findings of the WHO Global Research Agenda for Eye Health project. It will outline the identified high-priority questions in areas including cataract, refractive error, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and child eye health, and will be forward looking to action needed to answer them.
Positioning Eye Health as a National Priority: From Strategy to Systems
What makes eye health compelling for ministries including and beyond health, and how do countries embed it in their highest-level strategies?
This session surfaces the strategies, alliances and system shifts that enabled national commitments in the first place. It focuses on what worked behind the scenes and how different stakeholders helped translate ambition into sustained national prioritisation.
Integrating Eye Health into UHC and Service Delivery Models: From Vision to Reality
How can eye health strengthen universal health coverage, and what does meaningful integration look like in practice?
This session examines what integration actually requires across policy, workforce, financing and delivery systems. It highlights practical models that improve impact while strengthening the case for sustained national investment.
Masterclass: Mobilising Commitment for Eye Health
How can organisations shape and communicate their ambitions as actionable commitments that align with the global strategy and contribute to the Global Summit for Eye Health?
Through practical guidance and sector-based discussion, participants will develop concrete commitment ideas and test how to position them clearly and credibly. The session will also explore opportunities for commitments to reinforce one another and drive collective impact.
Aligning for impact: Launching the 2030 In Sight Data for Success Framework
What would it take to fully align the eye health sector around shared indicators and joined up data?
This session introduces the 2030 In Sight Data for Success Framework, designed to bring greater coherence to how progress is measured, reported and communicated across the sector. Stronger alignment supports better decisions, clearer accountability and more effective advocacy at national and global levels.
Beyond 2030: Debate on the Post 2030 Vision Agenda
What must eye health look like in a world shaped by political change, a rise in populism, climate pressure, and economic uncertainty?
This debate examines the world we are in, how the eye health must remain flexible, and support national growth. A conversation linking today’s commitments to tomorrow’s world.