Public Health
The Scotoma in the Spreadsheet
Dr. Samer Al-Diri examines why healthcare budgets may overlook the wider benefits of eye care and introduces the four-stage vision-sensitive events framework.
Amblyopia and the Public Health Data Gap: Why a Treatable Childhood Vision Disorder Can Remain Invisible to Health Systems
Dr. Samer Al-Diri examines why amblyopia can remain poorly visible at population level despite being a treatable childhood vision disorder, and proposes a health-system measurement framework spanning screening coverage, diagnosis, outcomes, missingness and population trends.
Reading Health-System Performance Through Eye Care
A five-domain executive framework for capacity, equity, continuity, digital assurance and outcomes By Dr Samer Al-Diri Dr Samer Al-Diri,...
Building Resilient Health Systems in Humanitarian Crises
Humanitarian crises fracture the pathways that make care dependable. This policy analysis presents an adaptive stewardship framework for converting evidence into accountable decisions, protecting continuity of care, and embedding recovery in resilient, locally supportable health systems.
The Prevention Liability: The Hidden Balance Sheet of Delayed Care
Prevention liability is the hidden clinical, financial and societal burden created when manageable risk remains unresolved until recovery narrows or is lost. A board-level framework for governing time-sensitive prevention across the life course.
Retinopathy of Prematurity: A Global Health-Systems Framework for Preventing Childhood Blindness through Neonatal Safety, Screening Governance, and Lifelong Vision Protection
This flagship article presents a global health-systems framework for preventing blindness from retinopathy of prematurity by strengthening neonatal safety, screening governance, timely treatment activation, accountability, and lifelong vision protection across diverse healthcare settings.
Amblyopia as a Preventable Public Health Failure: Childhood Vision Screening, AI-Enabled Pathways, and the Future of Preventive Eye Care
Dr Samer Al-Diri reframes amblyopia as a preventable public-health failure, connecting childhood vision screening with diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and measurable outcomes.