Fight for Sight-Prevent Blindness Joanne Angle Public Health Award

Deadline: November 15, 2019

Fight for Sight (FFS) and Prevent Blindness (PB) are partnering to fund a joint research award in 2020 to better serve the missions of both organizations. A new grant, a one-year $25,000 grant in aid, will be called the Fight for Sight-Prevent Blindness Joanne Angle Public Health Award and will support research related to:

• Burden/economic aspects of eye disease and vision loss on society
• Best practices in integrating vision screening and follow-up care with system care access
• Vision program effectiveness and evaluation

Applications for this research award will be due on November 15, 2019.

Applications must be submitted on FFS’s grant portal, which opened on October 1.

The recipient will be announced in spring 2020. For more information on the Fight for Sight-Prevent Blindness Joanne Angle Public Health Award, please contact Arthur Makar, FFS’s executive director, at arthur@fightforsight.org.