Ola Al-Shurbaji is a Senior Project Manager at the Institute for Family Health, a King Hussein Foundation institution, where she leads a national eye health integration program in Jordan.

Ola Al-Shurbaji is a Senior Project Manager at the Institute for Family Health, a King Hussein Foundation institution, where she leads a national eye health integration program in Jordan. She oversees the design, implementation, and scale-up of integrated vision services across primary healthcare and public school systems, reaching over 150,000 refugees and underserved populations. She drives system-level change by strengthening service quality, streamlining referral pathways, and ensuring continuity of care at the facility level.

With a background in speech-language and hearing sciences from the University of Jordan, Ola began her career as an audiologist, bringing a strong patient-centered perspective into her leadership.

Ola is a key member of the national steering committee for the school eye health program, where she played a central role in developing the National Vision Screening Manual. She also advocates for eye health in Jordan and has supported the establishment of a national technical committee.

She contributes to evidence generation, including implementation of the WHO ECSAT tool in Jordan (2025), and research on the cost-effectiveness of school eye health and spectacle compliance.

Working with the Fred Hollows Foundation, she strengthens and coordinates eye health services and advocates for integrating eye health into health and rehabilitation programs.

At IAPB 2030 In Sight Live in Nairobi, she will present “Facility Level Realities: Where Quality Happens.”

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