Mission

The mission of the Community Advisory Board (CAB) is to provide guidance to the Case Western Reserve University All Eyes on Us (AEOU) pilot study team by discussing intentional recruitment in the community and developing a semi structured interview protocol around vision health that is appropriately targeted to the population of interest. 

The CAB/AEOU collaboration benefits University Settlement and the AEOU team by addressing and meeting their mission to foster partnerships within urban neighborhoods to better understand barriers, values, and perceptions surrounding vision health and care. Specifically, we will partner with neighborhood residents and leaders, and the community organizations that serve the neighborhoods, to address eye health concerns which are not particularly emphasized on a daily basis in the community (e.g., primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration (AMD)), but are influenced by the conditions, disparities and resources of the neighborhood itself.