Being part of a sincere, hard-working and dedicated team has given me immense motivation to work as well as job satisfaction. I appreciate the clarity our leaders provide for the project and create actionable goals for the team. Huge learning happened in creating the LMS course and the massive turn-out of participant enrolment is truly gratifying and rewarding. Our earnest effort to set up a vision center in Siddipet district is finally bearing fruit. I look forward to being part of inspiring research projects in the years to come.

IHOPE has taught me what it means to collaborate. It has shown me how interactions can improve us and how digressing from our line of work to other domains may actually help us in our own core work. Bringing together thought and ideas in a common platform where we can share each other’s skills is simply awesome!

My IHOPE journey began in 2020 and the past two years have had me working on the LMS and the Eye care integration at the primary healthcare level projects. Both have enhanced my skills and competencies with a special emphasis on learning from my peers from diverse domains of eye-care, health economics and public health. I have learnt the importance of perseverance, teamwork and being open to receiving constructive feedback from them while also learning the importance of diligence, discipline and the dedication from the Investigators. I hope to make a significant contribution to IHOPE and continue the good work to eventually create a positive impact on the community.

A big-data revolution is underway in health care, starting with the vastly increased supply of information. Over the last decade, pharmaceutical companies have been aggregating years of research and development data into medical databases, while payors and providers have digitized their patient records. At IHOPE, we are currently undertaking several projects that utilize pharmaceutical sales data as well as electronic medical records data of the LVPEI network of hospitals. Through this, we aim to produce empirical insights that could aid policymakers in making informed policy decisions. In the past year, I've learned a lot from the diverse perspective of the members of IHOPE, and hope that the wonderful work that the team is undertaking would leave a lasting impact on the discussions surrounding health policy.

Being part of IHOPE and working at the intersection of healthcare, economics and public policy has been a truly enriching experience. The opportunity to interact, understand and share a workspace with the professionals at LVPEI, IIM and IIPH has enabled me to get a holistic view on research and health economics. During the past year, I have been able to develop a better understanding on the aspects of project conceptualisation and data analytics, thanks to the help and support of my colleagues at IHOPE. Exposure to platforms like eyeSmart, IHOPE Resource Centre, IHOPE learning hub etc have also given me a better insight into the role of technological innovations in healthcare and organisational settings. Congrats to the whole team on IHOPE’s eventful journey so far! Hope we can scale new heights in the future..

IHOPE is a great example of how collaborative and interdisciplinary research can be carried out which can create new evidences to change practice and influence policies. Apart from this, it is a great platform for developing capacity of upcoming researchers. In the two years, there have been significant efforts to train clinicians as researchers and build their research capacity. It has also evolved into a platform where any researcher can bring new ideas and get feedback from experts in the field. We have immensely benefitted from the Advisory Board as well as experts in other domains like health economics and advocacy and policy.

Being there from the start of a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborative project like IHOPE has been an exciting opportunity for me. Learning from stalwarts in their fields and contributing meaningfully to the project by continually improving for success and growth through process optimization, transformation, stake holder management and human capital interventions has been a rewarding experience. Proud to be an integral part of IHOPE!!

I have been associated for two years with IHOPE, and work on two projects. One of them is developing training material to generate knowledge in clinical research, public health, and health economics in eye care. And the second one on conducting a study to explore the needs and access to eye care services at the primary level. The projects have been enriching and have provided me the opportunity to discover and learn. Working with a multidisciplinary team who come with rich experience in Public Health, Big Data, and Health Economics has given me a good understanding of eye care issues that impact people.

IHOPE was established with a bold and very ambitious goal in mind - to use data and AI driven research to transform eye health and eye care in India and ultimately the world. To use these lessons to drive policy, equity, quality, cost, access and education to catalyze sustainable changes that health systems so desperately need. All its activities are anchored in data and rooted in science, driving new health care models that are germane to India. This is what all healthcare should be all about. In its two years, IHOPE is laying the path and is becoming an example for a national transformation in healthcare.

It has been terrific to see how the IHOPE Journal and Centre have developed over the last year. The Centre is already providing a very valuable public health and health economics perspective on the eye health situation in India.