Brien Holden: Legacy of vision

Since emerging in Sydney in the early 1970s, Australia’s Brien Holden Vision Institute has had a major influence on eye care, co-developing the first silicone hydrogel contact lenses along with several other market-leading products, advancing knowledge about contact lens infection and inflammation, and initiating a global campaign to eliminate vision impairment and blindness due to uncorrected refractive error.

The Brien Holden Vision Institute is now set to significantly impact myopia management, having recently announced a licensing agreement with independent manufacturer of premium monthly replacement contact lenses, mark’ennovy, which will bring the Institute’s novel soft contact lens designs for myopia, as well as presbyopia, to European markets in the near future. This, in addition to the myopia management program for practitioners, service development through the Our Children’s Vision campaign and advocacy efforts, are aimed at reversing the trends in myopia prevalence.