2025

Prevent Blindness Declares June 28-July 4, 2025, as Fifth Annual Fireworks Safety Awareness Week
July is Dry Eye Month at Prevent Blindness with Goal to Raise Awareness and Educate the Public on the Eye Condition
Prevent Blindness to Co-host Free “Healthy Sight for Life: A Diabetes and Eye Health Fair”
From Eye Patches to Indie Films: How Pop Culture Can Spark Conversations About Children’s Vision Health
New Disney/Pixar Film Elio Sparks Conversation about Eye Patches and Children’s Vision
Prevent Blindness Provides Educational Resources for Cataract Month
Prevent Blindness to Hold 17th Annual Swing Fore Sight Golf Outing at Vision Expo West, Las Vegas
Prevent Blindness Applauds Reintroduction of Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act
Prevent Blindness and International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness Urge Continued Funding for Global Eye Health Programs
May is the Second Annual Inherited Retinal Disease and Genetic Testing Month at Prevent Blindness
Prevent Blindness Urges West Virginia State House to Reject Bill That Would Imperil Children’s Vision
Prevent Blindness Announces Leadership Promotions
Prevent Blindness Declares April as Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month
Matt MacDonald, President and Global Head of Managed Care at EyeMed Vision Care, Named Chair-elect of Prevent Blindness Board of Directors
2025 Focus on Eye Health Summit – Perspectives in Vision
2025 Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Prevent Blindness Holds 2025 Person of Vision Event Honoring Howard Purcell, O.D.
The Second Annual “Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) Awareness Week
2025 Jenny Pomeroy and Rising Visionary Awards Call for Nominations
Prevent Blindness Declares February as Age-related Macular Degeneration and Low Vision Awareness Month
Prevent Blindness Receives Transformative Legacy Gift of $9.7 Million
2025 Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award Gala to be Held During Vision Expo East

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Nov

Prevent Blindness Names Six New Members to National Board of Directors

Prevent Blindness has named six new members to its Board of Directors. The vote was held on Nov. 18, at the 2024 Prevent Blindness Annual...

Nov

Fifth Annual Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) Awareness Week

Prevent Blindness provides free educational materials on Thyroid Eye Disease, including a new patient-featured episode of the Focus on Eye Health Expert series, fact sheets,...

Oct

Prevent Blindness Provides Free Educational Resources for Diabetes-related Eye Disease Awareness Month

Prevent Blindness provides the public and professionals with free webpages, fact sheets, educational videos, toolkits, and social media graphics, to help prevent vision loss and...

Oct

Common Misperceptions Among Caregivers of Aging Adults Emphasizes Lack of Awareness of Retinal Diseases

Survey findings show fewer than 30% of caregivers of persons at risk for retinal diseases have heard about some of the most common types of...

Oct

New Study Finds Higher Prevalence of Glaucoma Than Previously Estimated

New research study estimates glaucoma and vision-affecting glaucoma prevalence by demographic factors, and by U.S. state and county A new study “Prevalence of Glaucoma Among...

Sep

Prevent Blindness Urges Public to Keep Eyes Healthy While Using Contacts

National Nonprofit Prevent Blindness Provides Free Resources, Including Fact Sheets, Social Media Graphics, and Webpages, on Ways to Use Contact Lenses Correctly and Safely Prevent...

Sep

Alcon Children’s Vision Center Named Recipient of 10th Annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award

The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness (NCCVEH) has announced the recipient of the tenth annual “Bonnie Strickland Champion for...

Sep

Howard Purcell, O.D., New England College of Optometry, to Receive 2025 Person of Vision Award

Annual Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award Gala at Vision Expo East in Orlando, Fla., to Honor Howard Purcell, O.D., President and CEO of the...

Sep

NASEM Publishes New Report on Myopia

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has published a new report, Myopia: Causes, Prevention and Treatment of an Increasingly Common Disease Prevent...

Sep

2024 Inflammatory Eye Disease Awareness Week

Prevent Blindness Offers Free Resources to Help Educate the Public and Allied Healthcare Professionals on the Many Types of Inflammatory Eye Diseases, and Steps that...

Sep

New Mapping Tool Provides Data for Children’s Vision and Eye Health

New Prevent Blindness Children’s Vision Health Map and Corresponding Report Provides Public, Professionals and Policy Makers with First-ever County and State-level Data on Children’s Vision...

Sep

2024 World Sight Day Activities Focus on Children’s Vision

Prevent Blindness Kicks Off World Sight Day Activities with a Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill, New Partnerships with Leading Organizations, and a Series of Vision...