Please be beware of predatory conferences. Only those conferences/meetings affiliated with the WCO or our members or partners are listed on our website. Please check there first before committing to a conference that is not represented by optometry. Earlier this year, the WCO joined forces with the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) to address this
Why Optometry? has been produced by the World Council of Optometry (WCO) in response to the World Health Organisation’s Global Action Plan for the Prevention of Avoidable Blindness and Visual Impairment 2014-2019. Links to both English and Spanish versions are available at left. It provides the case for delivering high quality, advanced and equitable eye
World Sight Day is an important advocacy and communications event on the eye health calendar. It is a great time to engage with a wider audience – a patient’s family, those who seldom get an eye exam, diabetics – and showcase why eye health needs everybody’s attention. From the International Agency for the Prevention of
