Professor Lisa Keay
1993, BOptom, UNSW Sydney
2006, PhD, UNSW Sydney
2010, Masters of Public Health, UNSW Sydney
Professor Lisa Keay is the Head of the School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW Sydney and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health, UNSW Sydney. She is a public health researcher, with expertise in epidemiology, health promotion and injury prevention. She trained as an Optometrist, has a PhD and MPH from UNSW Sydney and completed a research fellowship at the Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University. She leads a successful program of public health research in vision and eye health spanning healthy ageing, injury prevention, health systems research and implementation science. She devotes considerable efforts to translation of her research on safe mobility for older people into policy and practice. Recommendations arising from her fall prevention research include timely bilateral cataract surgery, best practice refractive management and evidence-based exercise programs to reduce risk of falls for older people with vision impairment, who are excluded from community programs. She was a commissioner for the 2020 Lancet Commission of Global Eye Health, on the topics of associations between vision impairment and road traffic injury and falls. She is an investigator on the second national Australian eye and ear health survey which will conclude in 2024.
Research Groups
- Ageing and road safety
- Cost-effectiveness of cataract surgery
- Cost-effectiveness of low vision services
- Epidemiology of eye injuries
- Falls risk and low vision
- Innovative models of eyecare delivery
- Mental health and low vision
- Quality of eye care, evidence-based practice, health systems research
- School vision screening
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- Teaching and Supervision
My Research Supervision
- Epidemiology of refractive error
- The rate of cataract surgery in NSW and the relationship to health status
- Safe mobility, driving and autonomous vehicle technologies for older people in Australia
- Infodemiology and novel approaches to improving the compliance to contact lens wear
- Epidemiology of glaucoma in Australia
- Shared decision making and preferences in minimally invasive glaucoma surgery
- A Text Message Intervention to promote contact lens compliance
- Memory, ageing, functional visionand retinal biomarkers
- The Actors, Behaviours and Challenges: The ABC of Resilient Hearing and Vision healthcare systems for people in Aged Care Communities
- Bioptic telescopes and driving: social impact, safety and policy
- Multi-disciplinary team based care