Best Practices

We Serve as a Leader and Partner

Renewing Hope and Transforming Lives

SightLife takes a health systems approach to addressing the inequities that contribute to and perpetuate corneal blindness in India. How do we do it? We draw on our five decades of sight-restoring experience to expand the network, capacity, and capabilities of our partners globally, while also co-creating with them sustainable strategies and programs for improving corneal health outcomes. 

• We empower frontline healthcare workers and primary healthcare providers to reverse the progression of corneal blindness. 
• We build capacity and strengthen local corneal transplant programs to improve clinical outcomes through the gift of sight. 
• We take a health systems approach to addressing the inequities that contribute to and perpetuate corneal blindness in India. 

Our Focus Areas

Access & Innovation  

We leverage innovation to leapfrog barriers and help bring corneal health solutions within reach, especially for people and communities in low-resource settings. 

Eye Banking  

We optimize and share industry-leading best practices to strengthen eye banking systems, continuously uplift donor families, and increase the number of quality corneas for sight-restoring surgery. 

Awareness & Prevention  

We empower community health workers to screen and treat corneal abrasions before they progress to blindness, while raising awareness of preventative corneal care in their communities. 

Public Policy & Advocacy  

We bolster political will and government support for the access and delivery of appropriate and affordable corneal care services, when and where people need them. 

Clinical Training  

We train surgeons, clinical providers, and ophthalmic as well as eye bank personnel in the delivery of high-quality, people-centered corneal healthcare and tissue recovery and donation services. 

Partnerships  

We forge cross-sector collaborations that build on the strengths of each partner while catalyzing and accelerating shared value and corneal health impact at scale.