| Saturday 7th August |
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| 18:00 | Registrations at the Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU |
| 19:00 | Welcome message by Conference Chair, Professor Joshua Silver of University of Oxford and Adaptive Eyecare Ltd, UK |
| 19:30 | Drinks and Welcome Dinner at St. Anne's College |
| Sunday 8th August |
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| 09:15 | Introduction by Conference Chair Dr. Ian Berger of InFocus, USA |
| 09:30 | "Ethical issues concerning delivery of vision care to poor and disadvantaged populations, specially developing countries", by Professor Norman Bailey of the University of Houston, USA |
| 10:00 | "Can we really provide mass vision correction by letting people do it themselves", by Professor Joshua Silver, University of Oxford and Adaptive Eye care, UK |
| 10:30 | "The dynamics of effective distribution of affordable eyewear", by Professor Dan Sheni of the World Council of Optometry, South Africa |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | "Preventing blindness due to refractive errors in Nigeria", by Dr. Faustina Idu of University of Benin, Nigeria |
| 12:00 | "Scojo's efforts at broadening global access to affordable reading glasses", by Graham Macmillan of Scojo Foundation, USA |
| 12:30 | "Instant eyeglasses and sustainable community based primary eye care", by David Dunaway, Executive Director of InFocus, USA |
| 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 15:00 | "Use of Spherical Lenses for Adult Refugees on the Thailand and Burma border", by Dr. Jerry Vincent of International Rescue Committee, Thailand |
| 15:30 | "The Partnership for Child Development and FRESH: Focusing Resources on Vision", by Dr. Helen Roberts of The Partnership for Child Development, UK |
| 16:00 | "Strategies for the provision of refraction, corrective eyewear and primary eye care for the vast population of medically undeserved in Tanzania", by Dr. Valerian Lyimo, Vice-principal of the Tumaini University School of Optometry, Tanzania |
| 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 | "Is there a need for astigmatic lenses in the developing world?", by Anthony Carlson and William Harris of Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa |
| 17:30 | "The prospects of affordable astigmatic spectacle lenses", by William Harris and Anthony Carlson of Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa |
| 18:00 | END of session |
| Monday 9th August |
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| 09:00 | Presentation by Julian Lambert, Senior Health Adviser, Africa, Greater Lakes and Horn Department, West Africa Department and Sudan Unit, Department For International Development, UK Government |
| 09:30 | "World-wide distribution of refractive errors and what to expect at a particular location", by Dr. Ian Berger and Dr. K. Mistry of InFocus, USA |
| 10:00 | "South African children with oculo-cutaneous albinism need affordable vision correction", by Professor Alabi Oduntan of the University of the North, South Africa |
| 10:30 | "Update and models of humanitarian eye care delivery" by Dr. Harry I Zeltzer, Executive Director of VOSH/International, USA |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | "Impact of NGOs on eye care in Nigeria", by Dr. Okechukwu Aloysius Anyanwu of the Nigerian Optometric Association -presented by Dr. Ian Berger |
| 12:00 | "The real issues pertaining to eye care in India", by Ajeet Bhardwaj of OPTIQUE Eye, Ear and Speech, India |
| 12:30 | Summing up by Conference Chair, Professor Joshua Silver |
| 13:00 | LUNCH and END of conference |
| PM | Departures |
