Nathan Congdon

Prof Nathan Congdon, MD, MPH, is Ulverscroft Chair of Global Eye Health at Queen’s University Belfast, Research Director for ORBIS International, and Professor at Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, China, where he lived for ten years. He is fluent in Chinese. His work focuses on trials assessing the impact of vision care on development outcomes such as education, productivity and traffic safety. He has received a Chinese government Thousand Man Plan award in 2011, a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award in 2021 and support from the US and UK governments, EU, WHO, and World Bank. He has over 330 peer-reviewed publications in journals including Lancet Global Health, BMJ and JAMA, and an H-index of 72.

Nathan Congdon is a 2024 Falling Walls Winner in the Social Sciences and Humanities category