Sumrana Yasmin is the Deputy Technical Director of Eye Health at Sightsavers, based in Pakistan.

Sumrana Yasmin is the Deputy Technical Director of Eye Health at Sightsavers, based in Pakistan. She is a public health professional, and her work focuses on developing scalable eye health and refractive error programmes in low- and middle-income countries to strengthen health and education systems.

In her current role, she is responsible for leading the Sightsavers Eye Health and Refractive Error thematic portfolios, ensuring that these programmes are strategically driven, gender-responsive, disability-inclusive, climate-resilient and technically sound. She is passionate about gender equity, social inclusion and sustainable development and promotes these by working and networking with like-minded organisations; advocating for gender equity and social inclusion in development policies and strategies; and supporting women’s empowerment and leadership in programme development.

Sumrana works closely with World Health Organization, IAPB and other eye care organisations to amplify the efforts to achieve universal eye health coverage.