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  1. 7 June 2023 - Health & Wellbeing

    Let it be clear, I strongly support The Voice

    Five decades working on eye health in Indigenous communities shows the need for a permanent Voice to Parliament says a University of Melbourne expert.

  2. 12 May 2021 - Health & Medicine

    To improve Indigenous health, we must improve Indigenous housing

    To improve Indigenous health, we must improve Indigenous housing; University of Melbourne experts say that requires Indigenous involvement and leadership.

  3. 25 November 2020 - Health & Medicine

    The Indigenous eye-care gap is closing, but not fast enough

    The Indigenous community-led approach to COVID-19 is a lesson in closing the gap on vision but government support is needed, say University of Melbourne experts

  4. 11 November 2019 - Health & Wellbeing

    Can we close the gap on blindness by 2020?

    The Roadmap to Close the Gap for Vision is improving eye health for Indigenous Australians, but University of Melbourne research finds more needs to be done.

  5. 30 October 2017 - Health & Wellbeing

    Closing the Gap for vision

    Blindness impacts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people disproportionately, but according a University of Melbourne report, real progress is being made.

  6. 29 October 2016 - Health & Wellbeing

    Ending avoidable blindness

    Researchers, using data gathering and analysis, are making inroads in eliminating avoidable blindness and preventable eye diseases in Indigenous communities.

  7. 19 August 2016 - Health & Wellbeing

    A clearer view

    University of Melbourne research is helping to position Australia to finally eliminate the blinding eye disease - trachoma - from remote Indigenous communities.