Andrew Bastawrous: Get your next eye exam on a smartphone
Andrew Bastawrous: Gör din nästa synundersökning med en smart mobil
Andrew Bastawrous studies eye health -- and builds accessible new tools to bring eye care to more people. Full bio
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eller omöjliga att förebygga.
som gör det möjligt för
ögonvård överallt.
traditional hospital equipment,
av vem som helst,
och en ögonskanner.
we've learned in the field,
betyder för dem.
ser ut, så att
som innehåller
kan göra det.
för över 150 000 dollar,
needed to deliver health care.
har solcellsutrustade ryggsäckar
och säkerhetskopierad.
som aldrig kommer.
anyone with minimal training.
med minimal utbildning.
från hela världen
för mindre än 40 dollar.
alltid är en dålig idé,
om oss som människor
utan att göra dem tillgängliga.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andrew Bastawrous - Eye surgeon, inventorAndrew Bastawrous studies eye health -- and builds accessible new tools to bring eye care to more people.
Why you should listen
Andrew Bastawrous is cofounder and CEO of Peek Vision, a social impact organization that uses smartphone technology to radically increase access to eye care in some of the most challenging places in the world. Bastawrous is also an ophthalmologist (eye surgeon) and Associate Professor in International Eye Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Peek's vision app, Peek Acuity, is being used to transform eye health in more than 150 countries. The organization ran one of the top-ten all-time Indiegogo crowd-funding campaigns in the health sector -- for Peek Retina, a smartphone ophthalmoscope -- and was voted "best social-impact start-up in Europe" by Google and McKinsey in 2016. All prize money has been re-invested in Peek.
Bastawrous is working with astrophysicists to crowdsource retinal data; with National Geographic explorers to reach isolated communities; and with artists and activists to advocate for eye care globally. He and his wife Madeleine have established a social enterprise healthy bakery in Kenya that provides employment, with profits paying for eye care.
In 2018, Bastawrous was invited to deliver the Commonwealth Address in the presence of the British Royal Family, where he announced the creation of a new one-billion-dollar Vision Catalyst Fund -- a new vision for international aid.
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