Professor Jill Keeffe OAM
Professor Jill Keeffe PhD OAM is head of the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) Population Health Unit at the University of Melbourne and is also the director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Blindness at CERA. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for “services to public health particularly in the area of vision testing and as a contributor to the advancement of eye care education and practice”.
Professor Keeffe describes her work as translating research to provide evidence for best practice in eye care and low vision services. A recent focus is in health services research and assessing the establishment and outcomes of innovative models of eye care.
She holds the position of First Vice-President of the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI), a global initiative seeking to provide education for all visually impaired people throughout the world.