Stuart Keel, PhD

As lead of Vision and Eye Care within the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Keel has helped drive implementation of World Health Assembly resolutions on eye care. He conceived and built the WHO SPECS 2030 — a global initiative to sustainably expand access to eye care service. He also co-developed the WHO-ITU (International Telecommunication Union) MyopiaEd Programme — a digital health intervention for myopia prevention education that has been deployed across multiple countries. Keel has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the top-ranked journals in global health, ophthalmology and diabetes, and was a lead author of WHO's first World Report on Vision — setting the global eye care agenda for 2020-2030. Prior to joining WHO in 2019, Keel served as principal investigator in ophthalmic epidemiology at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA). He was also a lecturer in the Department