Share Your Insights: Contribute to the IAPB Knowledge Hub

The IAPB Knowledge Hub is a collaborative online platform designed to be a central resource for the global eye health community. It offers high-quality information, tools, and best practices to advance knowledge and innovation in eye care.

We are excited to invite contributions to the IAPB Knowledge Hub. As a potential contributor, here’s what you should know:

To date this year, we have had almost 50,000 interactions on the knowledge hub from over 8,000 users.

What is the IAPB Knowledge Hub?

• Comprehensive Resource: The Knowledge Hub brings together expert insights, research, case studies, and technical guidance to improve and share eye health practices globally. It covers a range of topics from clinical to health systems, advocacy, and policy development.
• Interactive and Accessible: It’s a user-friendly platform that encourages knowledge sharing across the sector. Contributors can post articles, research findings, toolkits, and more to support the work of fellow professionals worldwide.
• Global Reach: Your contribution will help eye health practitioners, policymakers, and advocates in various regions, particularly those in underserved or low-resource settings. The Hub is an important tool for capacity building, promoting new research, and improving outcomes in eye care.
• Collaborative Community: By contributing, you become part of a global community of experts, practitioners, and advocates dedicated to preventing blindness and ensuring universal access to quality eye care.

Why Contribute?

Impact and Influence: Share your expertise and insights with a broad audience to influence policy, practices, and research in eye health. Your work could be instrumental in shaping global or regional approaches to eye care and preventing and treating vision loss.

Showcase Your Work: The platform offers high visibility to contributors. You’ll have the opportunity to highlight your organization’s innovations, projects, or research findings, gaining recognition among peers and key stakeholders in the eye health sector.

Knowledge Sharing: Contributing to the Knowledge Hub helps bridge information gaps, ensuring that critical advancements in eye health reach professionals working in both high- and low-resource settings.

How to Get Involved

You can contribute by submitting research papers, case studies, reports, multimedia resources, or toolkits. IAPB’s editorial team works with contributors to ensure that your submissions are effectively shared with the global community. As discussed, you can contribute any blog or resource content at any time via the link Knowledge Hub submission page.

Some examples of Knowledge Hub content contributions are:

• Q & A: Transforming Lives, An investment case for eye health, Jack Hennessy, Senior Health Economist, The Fred Hollows Foundation
• Session Summary: IN SIGHT LIVE - WHO Research Agenda, Cova Bascaran (ICEH), Stuart Keel (WHO), Jacqueline Ramke (ICEH) and Matthew Burton (ICEH)
• Resource sharing: Sharing resources: Diabetes awareness videos, Professor Shahina Pardhan & Dr Raju Sapkota, Vision and Eye Research Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
• Interactive Learning Module: Introduction to IPEC, Interactive Module – IAPB & Fred Hollows Foundation with funding from Australian Aid (over 800 completions)
• Toolkit free to use: Quality Refractive Error Toolkit, Fred Hollows Foundation

Work Group Statements or Resources

• Call to Action - Diabetic Retinopathy – IAPB & IDF, 2024
• School Eye Health Guidelines - IAPB Work Group, 2024 (500+ views since July)

We are excited to invite contributions to the IAPB Knowledge Hub. As we continue to expand our resources, we encourage experts, practitioners, and advocates across the eye health sector to submit articles, case studies, data, and innovations that can drive forward our shared mission. Your contributions will help foster collaboration, inform policy, and inspire action across the global community.

Join us in building a rich repository of knowledge that can shape the future of eye health.