The Global Pathway to Sustainable Cataract Care Starts Now
What will it take to eliminate preventable cataract blindness?
HelpMeSee believes progress for eliminating preventable blindness cannot wait. The technology exists. Now we need collective action and investment.
We must accelerate progress now.
Our HelpMeSee standardized, simulation-based training technology can accelerate the development of the skilled surgical workforce needed to expand access to sight-restoring cataract care. The technology exists. The need is urgent. What is required now is collective action and investment to scale its impact.
Training alone, however, will not solve this global challenge. Progress depends on strengthening every link between unmet need and sight-restoring cataract care.
Governments, health systems, training institutions, eye-health organizations, funders, technology partners and others all have a role to play in building the sustainable capacity needed to reach more people, faster.
The pathway starts now.
Building the Surgical Workforce: Partnership Is Essential
A sustainable cataract care system requires a skilled local surgical workforce capable of delivering quality care where it is needed most.
HelpMeSee is addressing this critical need through standardized, competency-based, simulation-based training. High-fidelity simulation allows trainees to repeatedly practice surgical skills in a controlled environment, receive objective feedback and demonstrate competency before transitioning those skills into supervised clinical practice.
This approach can help institutions expand training capacity, accelerate surgical skills development and build a stronger pipeline of qualified cataract specialists.
But developing surgical skills is only one part of the Pathway.
Sustainable impact also depends on clinical infrastructure, skilled instructors, financing, quality assurance, patient access and strong local health systems.
That is why partnership is essential.
Where Could We Work Together?
HelpMeSee works with partners to build sustainable cataract surgical capacity based on local needs and opportunities.
Training institutions and health systems seeking to expand cataract surgical training capacity
Governments and ministries of health working to strengthen the surgical workforce
Eye-health organizations and NGOs looking to integrate workforce development into broader programs
Funders and corporate partners interested in supporting scalable, sustainable training capacity
Technology and innovation partners with expertise that can advance surgical education
Clinical partners able to help create pathways from training into supervised live surgical experience
Your organization may hold another piece of the pathway.
Let’s explore how our capabilities, resources and expertise could work together toward a shared goal.
Download the Pathway to Accelerating Cataract Care
The Pathway to Accelerating Cataract Care explores the interconnected elements required to move from unmet cataract need to sustainable access to quality care, and the role workforce development and simulation-based training can play within that larger ecosystem.
Download the free thought leadership piece to understand where your organization can contribute.
The Pathway Starts Now. Let’s Build It Together.
Eliminating preventable cataract blindness cannot wait. The need exists today, and so do many of the technologies, expertise and resources needed to accelerate progress.
But no organization, technology or intervention can do it alone. Immediate impact requires an ecosystem working together toward a shared goal.
If your organization is working to strengthen eye health, surgical education, workforce capacity or access to cataract care, now is the time to act.
Let’s explore what we can accomplish together.
Contact
Thomas C. Myhren
Chief of Business Development and Advocacy[email protected]
Nicoletta Fynn-Thompson
Chief Medical Officer[email protected]
Interested in partnering with HelpMeSee?
No single organization is the pathway. The pathway is what the global eye-health community builds together.
Let's Build the Pathway Together
Eliminating preventable cataract blindness cannot be achieved by one organization, one technology or one intervention.
It will be achieved by an ecosystem working toward a shared goal.
If your organization is working to strengthen eye health,
surgical education, workforce capacity or access to cataract care, we would like to hear from you.
No single organization is the pathway. The pathway is what the global eye-health community builds together.
Let's Build the Pathway Together
Eliminating preventable cataract blindness cannot be achieved by one organization, one technology or one intervention. It will be achieved by an ecosystem working toward a shared goal. If your organization is working to strengthen eye health, surgical education, workforce capacity or access to cataract care, we would like to hear from you. Interested in partnering with HelpMeSee?
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Who Are We
HelpMeSee is a nonprofit organization with a mission to eradicate the cataract backlog that impacts 100 million people worldwide.
Millions live in preventable darkness due to cataract blindness. HelpMeSee is tackling this crisis with innovative simulator-based training and global partnerships to make surgery accessible everywhere. With over 265,000 people’s sight already restored, we believe cataract blindness can be eradicated in the next decade. Join the HelpMeSee Global community to create lasting change.
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