A £3.5 million research programme funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Chen Yet-Sen Family Foundation has been launched to explore how vision care improves development throughout life.
The five-year Engine project aimed to examine how affordable, effective and widely available spectacles could help achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
It would assess how vision correction could impact life in different ways, which included reducing road traffic injuries and enhancing learning for children in Africa who were long-sighted.
In addition, researchers would look at how spectacles could slow the onset of cognitive decline and dementia among elderly people, as well as improve economic independence by supporting them when using online banking on smartphones.
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