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Department of Public Health

Overview

The Department of Public Health (DPH) works to implement the networks’ aim to make high quality eye care available to all sections of the society, regardless of their economic, social, or geographical status.

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Who We Are

As a team, we strive to make a difference in the accessibility of quality eye care to all who need it. The ethos of the DPH is to create and implement financially and operationally sustainable models of care delivery in the community, as well as at the primary and secondary levels.

The DPH also represents SCEH, and the work being done across the network, at national and international platforms such as the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, where leaders from the public health for eye care industry engage in scientific discussion and debate, learn from each other, and collaborate.

At present, the ambit of the department encompasses Community Ophthalmology, Public Health Research, Projects and Outreach Activities, Secondary Centers, Primary Care and Geographical Growth Strategies.

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Our Experts

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Dr. Shalinder Sabherwal
Director Public Health and Projects, SCEH Network
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K. Anand Sudhan
Director of Network Expansion Partnerships

Our Team

  • Shyamanta Bijoy Neog : Senior Manager – Community Programs
  • Rakhi Nathawat  : Senior Manager – Cornea, Public Health Research & Communications
  • Dr. Deepak Kumar Bhagat : Scientist Public Health Research
  • Dr Sheeladevi Sethu : Consultant – Public Health Research
  • Naval Chauhan : Deputy Manager, Lead – Delhi Vision Centres and Cataract Program Sustainability SCEH Network
  • Birendra Pratap Singh : Deputy Manager- Lead – Community Optometry -SCEH Network
  • Mohd Javed : Assistant Manager – Public Health Research
  • Zeeshan A. Siddiqui : Assistant Manager, Lead – Pediatric Community Operations – SCEH Network
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Our Routine Programs

In the community, through a door-to-door screening program in villages, supported by Standard Chartered Bank and Combat Blindness International. We also conduct outreach camps to provide screening to adults.

Through door-to-door screening in urban slums, supported by organizations like USAID, Seva Foundation and Cognizant Foundation. We also conduct school screening programs, supported by organizations like Orbis, Seva Foundation, Relaxo Footwears, Mission For Vision and CBM. 

Through our 66 vision centers located in rural areas and urban slums in north India, we provide comprehensive primary eye care to people, close to their doorstep. These centers provide affordable glasses and a timely referral and are connected with our tertiary center at Delhi by teleophthalmology services. These vision centers have been supported by our various partners- SCB, CBM, Seva foundation, Orbis

In certain regions with difficult access like Uttarakhand and interiors of Uttar Pradesh, we provide primary eye care using our mobile van model, supported by Seva Foundation and ITC

At transport hubs with the support of the EICHER Foundation, to close the loop of eye and ear care for this nomadic population.

Aadya Initiative in collaboration with Combat Blindness International empowers women to eradicate existing blindness and visual impairment in the community.

OUR PARTNERS

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Education

We conduct a one-year fellowship in eye care management. This includes teaching how to manage eye care facilities and community-based programs through projects based learning at Delhi and our secondary centers.

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Patient Stories

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Vision and faith restored

Mr. Darshan Lal, a 62-year-old man, resides in the small village of Khushalipur in Behat block of Saharanpur district, Uttar...

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RESEARCH

The department engages in operations, health economics and financing, social and epidemiological research. We conducted a Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB)-7, supported by a research grant from the Peek Vision Foundation, in Lakhimpur. In the same region, presently a study supported by Livelihood Impact Fund, to assess the willingness to pay for presbyopic glasses is ongoing.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

  • Harnessing Generalizable Real-World Ophthalmic Big Data:

    Descriptive Analysis of the Bodhya Eye Consortium: Model for Collaborative Research Ishaana Sood 1,2, Shalinder Sabherwal 1,2, Umang Mathur 1,2, Elesh Jain 2,3, Madhu Bhadauria 2,4, Deepshikha Agrawal 2,5, Ashi Khurana 2,6, Vikas Mittal 2,7, Avinash Mahindrakar 2,8, Vishal Govindahari 2,9, Sucheta Kulkarni 2,10, Ken K Nischal 2,11---- Online J Public Health Inform

  • Estimating the need for diabetic retinopathy services in north India:

    evidence from a population-based survey in the catchment population of an eye care provider in central Uttar Pradesh Shalinder Sabherwal, Mohd Javed, Ishaana Sood, Shamanna BR, Sandeep Buttan, Atanu Majumdar, Simrat Chandi, Basitali Lakhani, Shreya Tyagi, Utsav Deep, Vaibhav Jain, Andrew Bastawrous- BMJ OPEN

  • The economic and social costs of visual impairment and blindness in India :

    Wong, Brad; Singh, Kuldeep; Khanna, Rohit K; Ravilla, Thulasiraj; Shalinder, Sabherwal; Sil, Asim; Dole, Kuldeep; Jain, Elesh; Chase, Heidi. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

  • Strategies for cataract and uncorrected refractive error case finding in India:

    Costs and cost-effectiveness at scale. Brad Wong, Kuldeep Singh, Rohit C. Khanna, Thulasiraj Ravilla, Subeesh Kuyyadiyil, Shalinder Sabherwal, Asim Sil, Kuldeep Dole, Heidi Chase, Kevin D. Frick. The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia1

  • Primary eye care in India – The vision center model :

    Rohit C Khanna, Shalinder Sabherwal, Asim Sil, Mohammed Gowth, Kuldeep Dole, Subeesh Kuyyadiyil, Heidi Chase- Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

  • Visual Acuity Screening in North Indian Schools:

    Testing Accuracy and Cost of Alternate Screening Models Sabherwal, S., Adhisesha Reddy, P., Siddiqui, Z., Sood, I., Singh, B. P., Ganesh, S., Majumdar, A., & Bassett, K. L. (2023. Ophthalmic epidemiology

  • Door-to-door Screening as a New Model Augmenting School Eye Screening:

    Reaching Out to School Age Children in the Midst of a Pandemic Sabherwal, S., Sood, I., Siddiqui, Z., Majumdar, A., Singh, B. P., DasGupta, S., & Ganesh, S. (2022). Ophthalmic epidemiology

  • Exploring the market to establish an advanced surgical community eye hospital :

    Ishaana Sood, Shalinder Sabherwal, Shantanu DasGupta, Naval Chauhan, Anand Chinnakaran, Sathish Nagappan, Suresh Chandra, Madhur Mishra, Mukesh Kumar, Umang Mathur, Ashish Saksena and Arun K Arora- International Journal of Market Research

  • A multicentric cross-sectional study measuring the equity of cataract surgical services in three high-volume eyecare organizations in north India:

    Equitable cataract surgical rate as a new indicator. Sabherwal S, Kuyyadiyil S, Tomar VPS, et al. A multicentric cross-sectional study measuring the equity of cataract surgical services in three high-volume eyecare organizations in North India: Equitable cataract surgical rate as a new indicator. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

  • Effect of door-to-door screening and awareness generation activities in the catchment areas of vision centres on service utilization:

    Protocol for a randomized experimental study- Shalinder Sabherwal; Anand Chinnakaran; Ishaana Sood ; Gaurav K Garg ; Birendra P Singh; Rajan Shukla ; Priya A Reddy ; Suzanne Gilbert ; Ken Bassett ; Gudlavalleti V S Murthy ; Operational Research Capacity Building Study Group – IJMR Protocols

  • Out-of-School Vision Screening in North India:

    Estimating the Magnitude of Need- Shalinder Sabherwal, Ishaana Sood, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Shantanu DasGupta, Suma Ganesh & Ken Basset – Ophthalmic Epidemiology

  • ROP screening and treatment in four district-level special newborn care units in India:

    a cross-sectional study of screening and treatment rates-Shalinder sabherwal, Clare Gilbert, Allen Foster, Praveen Kumar- BMJ Pediatrics Open

Why SCEH

 We believe that eyecare is not just about treating the disease but finding sustainable ways to reach the patients who may not have accessibility. We at SCEH, have supportive partners who help us in reaching our vision and mission. Our screening programmes give employment to many, including women and the lives touched are innumerable.

To be a part of our journey reach us at 011-43524444