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SUMMARY:How do we really bring vision correction to those that need it in 
 the Developing World? - Professor Joshua Silver
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CONTACT:Lindsay Chura
DESCRIPTION:Joshua Silver is an atomic physicist and Professor of Physics 
 at the University of Oxford. He became interested in the emerging area of 
 adaptive optics in the mid-1980s. After considering the way our eye-brain 
 adaptive optical system works\, Silver suggested that self-refraction with
  suitable adaptive lens eyeglasses could be a useful procedure for correct
 ing refractive error\, after trying such a procedure on himself. He create
 d several adaptive lens eyeglasses (adaptive eyewear)\, and then carried o
 ut research supported by the UK's DFID which showed self-refraction with a
 daptive eyewear to be a useful procedure for bringing vision correction to
  around half the world's population which currently needs\, but does not h
 ave\, corrective eyewear. The self-refraction procedure is particularly us
 eful for populations where there are too few eyecare professionals to meet
  the needs of the people. Silver now directs the Centre for Vision in the 
 Developing World\, and hopes to see a billion people having vision correct
 ion by the year 2020.\n\n"Better Vision for the World\, on a Budget" \nThe
  New York Times (2 January 2010)\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/busine
 ss/global/02glasses.html\n
LOCATION:Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber
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