Welcome
The 2024 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Eye Health Conference (NATSIEHC24) will be held on nipaluna country (Hobart, Tasmania) from Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 May 2024.
The 2024 Conference is, for the first time, formally hosted by the First Nations Eye Health Alliance (FNEHA), Australia’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led eye health organisation. FNEHA itself was born out of gatherings and workshops of First Nations delegates in the 2022 and 2023 Conferences, signifying the progress of First Nations self-determination and leadership in eye care. The Conference is again supported by the Indigenous Eye Health Unit (IEHU) at The University of Melbourne.
The 2024 Conference will build on the success of the wonderful 2023 Conference, where over 240 delegates, including over 100 First Nations delegates, from all states and territories gathered on Dharug land in Parramatta, Western Sydney over 3 days in May 2023. Since 2017, the national Conferences have developed into key annual gatherings of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health sector. The annual Conference provides a unique opportunity for connections, conversations, and knowledge exchange from our collective effort in eye health from across Australia.
National Conferences for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health sector have been held since 2017, making 2024 the eighth event. The annual Conference provides a wonderful opportunity for the sector to come together and a wide variety of voices are presented to support discussion and sharing of success stories and challenges from our collective sector efforts across Australia.
The Conference aims to advance the collective work of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye health sector towards the shared goal of ending avoidable vision loss and blindness for First Nations Australians. Delegates will include representatives from Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations and other primary care service providers, eye care clinicians, policy makers, researchers, non-government organisations, hospitals, professional peak bodies and government departments from across the country.
Please join us in May 2024.
Please email Indigenous-EyeHealth@unimelb.edu.au with any questions.
NATSIEHC24 Sponsors
We would like to thank our sponsors for their vital contributions towards the running of this years Conference.
GOLD:
The Fred Hollows Foundation
BRONZE:
Optometry Australia (OA)
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO)
Department of Health Tasmania
