The focus of our work is supporting the ongoing involvement in healthy ageing.

Over the past three years Burnet Institute has collaborated with government and non-government organisations (NGOs) in Sri Lanka to learn lessons about how to strengthen systems to improve vision, health and wellbeing.

An outstanding project - Establishing Elders' in the tea estates of Nuwara Eliya - was one of several strategies in a project that started in 2004 to improve the health and well-being of the elders and foster traditional values of respect in the tea estates of Sri Lanka.

Current Projects

• Gender Counts
  A quantitative assessment of gender inequality and its impacts on children and adolescents in Asia and the Pacific.
• Sexual and reproductive health in Asia and the Pacific
  A review of issues, policies and programmes.

Past Projects

• Better Vision and Healthy Ageing
  The BVHA goal is improved health, vision and quality of life for elders in South and South-East Asia.
• Improving vision and health of elders in Nuwara Eliya district, Sri Lanka:
  An evaluation of the impact of community-based Elders’ Clubs on health, vision and well-being of elders