Vision Health Initiative Improving surveillance and research

Jinan B. Saaddine MD, MPH Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Vision Health Initiative

Disclaimer The findings and conclusions in this report are

those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Financial Disclosure I have no relevant commercial entity

relationships or financial interests to disclose

Jinan B. Saaddine MD, MPH

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

VHI Home National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health promotion

DIVISIONS Office of the Director

DIVISION OF

COMMUNITY HEALTH (P) Rebecca Bunnell, ScD, M.Ed.

Acting Director

DIVISION OF CANCER PREVENTION AND CONTROL

Marcus Plescia, M.D., M.P.H. Director

DIVISION OF DIABETES TRANSLATION

Ann Albright, Ph.D., R.D. Director

DIVISION FOR HEART DISEASE AND STROKE PREVENTION

Yuling Hong Acting Director

Ursula E. Bauer, Ph.D., M.P.H. Director

Dana Shelton, MPH Deputy Director

Dara Murphy, M.P.H. Management Officer

Sean Cucchi, M.H.A. Associate Director for Policy

Barbara Bowman, Ph.D. Associate Director for Science

Michael Pratt, M.D., M.P.H. Senior Advisor for Global Health

Peter Briss, M.D., M.P.H., CAPT USPHS Medical Director

Rebecca Bunnell, Sc.D., M.Ed. Associate Director for Public Health Practice

Anne Haddix, Ph.D., M.S. Senior Policy Advisor

Jeff McKenna, M.S. Associate Director for

Communication Science

Brenda Colley Gilbert, Ph.D., M.S.P.H. Director

Extramural Research Program Office

Jason Bonander, M.A. Director

Office of Informatics and Information Resource Management

DIVISIONS

DIVISION OF NUTRITION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND OBESITY

CAPT Heidi Blanck. Acting Director

DIVISION OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

CAPT Wanda D. Barfield, M.D., M.P.H., Director

OFFICE ON SMOKING AND HEALTH

Tim McAfee, M.D., M.P.H. Director

DIVISION OF POPULATION HEALTH (P)

Wayne Giles, M.D., M.S. DIRECTOR

DIVISION OF ORAL HEALTH

RADM William Bailey, D.D.S., M.P.H. Acting Director

Vision and Eye Health VHI

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VHI Mission

VHI’s mission is to enhance public health surveillance and research that provides the basis for effective public health

programs and policy decision to reduce the burden of vision loss.

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Surveillance

Public Health Programs

Effectiveness

Research

Why Public Health Surveillance

o Assess and Monitor the burden, risk factors,

and disparity

o Prioritize programs

o Evaluate progress

Individual level characteristics State specific

County estimates Contextual

The Changing Landscape of Surveillance National to Local

Glaucoma Project Community-based Intervention

Reaching High Risk Identify and engage high risk people in underserved communities Provide educational workshops

Detection

Provide ocular examination

Referral/follow up

Ensure referral, management, and follow ups in individuals suspect of or diagnosed with glaucoma

Rigorous evaluation of the effectiveness of the intervention

Suggested citation: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016.

Making eye health a population health imperative: Vision for tomorrow. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Future Aspirations

Surveillance

Public Health Programs

Effectiveness

Research

Future Surveillance Aspirations

Continue and expand collaboration with other federal agencies, professional organizations, academic researchers, and the public health sectors to advise and assist with the national vision and eye health surveillance system

Expand the use of BRFSS to better assess the burden within states

Include vision and eye health assessment in NHANES to generate national and timely data

Use existing data systems, such as the AAO IRIS registry, AAOMORE registry, and other EHRs

Future Research Aspirations Focus on vision health disparity

Develop and implement evidence-based interventions with public health impact that can influence policy and clinical practice. o Scaled up, o Sustained, and o Expanded nationwide

Thanks jsaaddine@cdc.gov

http://www.cdc.gov/visionhealth/

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision Hellen Keller