Seeing Our Way: Innovation, Excellence and Healing

Our 2026 theme, Seeing Our Way: Innovation, Excellence and Healing, acknowledges our past, strengthens our present, and calls in a future where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people lead the work that shapes their health outcomes and collective wellbeing.

As we come together, we will be empowered, informed, inspired, and share experiences and key learnings that will provide guidance and support to improve eye health outcomes in communities and end avoidable vision loss and blindness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

Held annually since 2017, the Conference shifted in 2021 to all-First Nations leadership and in 2024 was co-hosted for the first time by the First Nations Eye Health Alliance. From 2025 onwards, the Conference will be convened by the First Nations Eye Health Alliance (FNEHA). 

FNEHA is the principal voice and Australia’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander eye care peak body. FNEHA is a registered charity that utilises traditional and contemporary knowledge/pathways to develop equitable health approaches that stop preventable vision loss and blindness in First Nations people.