Bernadetha Robert Shilio

Ophthalmologist and National Eye Care Program Manager

Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Tanzania.

Latest Contribution

Photo showing Barnabas Mshangila, flanked by Rosie Brennan and colleagues at Mbeya.

Addressing childhood blindness in sub-Saharan Africa

2 August 2024 | | Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus

In this article, the authors explore paediatric ophthalmology subspecialist fellowship training in African nations south of the Sahara. Until recently, most African ophthalmologists who wished to pursue a subspecialty ophthalmology training fellowship had to go abroad. There is a huge...

Photo showing Shamin Haroun using the Optomed fundus camera for diabetic screening in Dodoma.

Life as a Global Citizen Consultant Ophthalmologist: a personal view of working in Scotland and Tanzania

3 October 2022 | | Ophthalmology

Global Citizen post - a new challenge I was looking for a new challenge. I had been in the same consultant post with a subspecialty interest in paediatrics and strabismus for 17 years and was rattling around in an empty...

Photo showing how to use Arclight during a dissemination workshop to regional eyecare coordinators.

The Diabetic Eye Screening Programme in Tanzania - The VISION 2020 LINK between Dodoma and Belfast

4 February 2021 | | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous

Rahila Bashir, Senior Remote Ophthalmic Research Image Grader, talks to Frank Sandi, Ophthalmologist at the Benjamin Mkapa Hospital (BMH), University of Dodoma in Tanzania and to Tunde Peto at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) and Belfast Health and Social Care Trust...