Andrew Bastawrous

About Andrew Bastawrous

Andrew Bastawrous

Bastawrous is involved in the PEEK (Portable Eye Examination Kit) project; a smartphone app and adaptor designed to help solve the problem of avoidable sight loss amongst the millions of people worldwide who don’t have access to expert eye health care. Bastawrous has worked in Sierra Leone, Peru, Belize, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Uganda and is working on the collaborative development and testing of PEEK, which can be used by health workers to test eyes easily and affordably, at the point of care. On his biggest achievement to date, “Persuading brilliant and talented people to work alongside me and make up for my weaknesses.”

A nominator said: “Bastawrous has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, and won the prestigious Max Perutz Science Writing Award in 2012 and is a 2014 TED Fellow. The PEEK project will transform eye care in Africa.”